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Don Hewitt, the CBS news producer who created 60 Minutes and worked with Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, passed away at age 86, due to pancreatic cancer. CBS News calls him the "father of modern television news" and points out he "played an integral role in all of CBS News' coverage of major news events from the late 1940s through the 1960s, putting him in the middle of some of history's biggest events, including one of politics’ seminal moments: the first televised presidential debate in 1960" between Nixon and Kennedy. In its obituary, the NY Times writes, "Hewitt also claimed credit for creating, at least in part, such innovations as putting headsets on newsmakers at events like political conventions so they might be interviewed by remote; displaying type, such as a subject’s name, on screen...and even the word 'anchorman,' which referred, he said, not to the anchor of a ship but the final runner on a four-person relay team — the person who, in effect, would carry the news home, and receive the most attention in the process."
Don Hewitt, 60 Minutes Creator, Dies At 86
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Another case of sudden jihad:
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Hewitt spoke to my journalism class when I was a student at Fordham in the early 1980's. At that time he was at the peak of his profession, so he hardly needed to spend an hour talking to a bunch of nerdy undergraduates. But he was articulate, funny, gracious and answered all questions - in short, he seemed like a straight-up guy.
The first wave of the great TV journalists are all disappearing now. Their likes will be missed.
This is a sad day and likely the beginning of many such notices from the 60 Minutes gang.
CBS News lost credibility a long time ago as have most of the mainstream media. Read Bernie Goldberg's book "Bias." He was at CBS for 28 years. 60 Minutes sure likes to blow the whistle on organizations and people they think are crooked but they sure as hell didn't like it when somebody shined a light on their own practices. It only took some blogger a few minutes to expose Dan Rather's fabricated National Guard documents during the '04 election. 60 Minutes is a dinosaur.
Maybe. But you know what? In five, ten, a hundred years, more people will still know and respect his name than some bitter neocon posting as "ides_of_march."