RIP Mike Wallace

[MileHigh]

CBS has announced the 60 Minutes icon has died.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/mike-wallace-60-minutes-pioneer-dies/

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

Just heard this. RIP to a great journalist.

 

[SF_Express]

Mike Wallace dies at 93

Pretty big guy in the television news part of our business.

I didn't know: He was the announcer for The Green Hornet in 1941.

This obit is written by .. Morley Safer

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57410999/remembering-mike-wallace-1918-2012/?tag=stack

 

[SF_Express]

It's with only moderate peevishness (peeveosity?) I note that I understand why this was consolidated under another thread; I less understand how MIKE WALLACE dying doesn't belong on the journalism topics board.

But it's Sunday morning, and I'm only halfway through my coffee.

 

[bigpern23]

It is really more of a news item than a journalism topic. Plus it will probably get more traffic in sports and news.

RIP.

 

[bigpern23]

Oh, and I have to admit, my first thought was that the Pittsburgh Steelers receiver did something stupid and died.

 

[Bubbler]

RIP. I didn't always agree with him, but I respected him, and he gave no quarter.

People are going to say he's a dying breed, and those people won't be wrong, but in a way, the legacy and he and his contemporaries lives on today. Network news is still infinitely more sane than its off-the-rocker cable cousins. Standards matter and Wallace helped make them matter.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Hearing the sound of a stopped stopwatch.

RIP.

 

[SF_Express]

It is really more of a news item than a journalism topic. Plus it will probably get more traffic in sports and news.
RIP.

I guess it's just my personal reader habits. I never visit this page.

 

[JR]

It's a news item whether you're a journalist or not.

I'm not sure where it ranks now but in its heyday it must have been the most watched shows on TV.

 

[Moderator1]

SF, we're on the same page on just about everything. But this one belongs here. He was beyond journalist, a celebrity. This would make my wife go "damn."

And me. Damn. RIP

Actually, a thread on both boards wouldn't bother me in the least.

 

[The Big Ragu]

He was a talk show host who turned himself into a journalist. For all practical reasons, I don't think there is any difference between the two anymore.

Him and Don Hewitt now both gone. Definitely the end of an era.

 

[dooley_womack1]

R.I.P. to an icon from an era when we took our cue from trusted voices, before the cacophony of everybody's voice took over. As tough as Rather, without the baggage.

 

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

Mike Wallace interview of Roger Clemens from 4 years ago

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=3680216n

Even at his advanced age he had the professionalism, the steel spine and the wit to expose the Texas conman

 

[Moderator1]

When I was a student at VCU, Mike Wallace rolled into town and recruited a couple of students (not me, unfortunately) to help him bust some shady company that was screwing people on background checks and the like. He must have been 70 then! Local papers ran stories about Wallace being in town but never figured out why until the story appeared.

 

[MileHigh]

Just saw the 10-minute retrospective on Face the Nation by Morley Safer. I only knew him from 60 Minutes but what a life.

A true pioneer.

 

[Azrael]

Game show host, radio announcer, actor, commercial shill, talk show host. He didn't take up "journalism" as we understand it today until he'd been in show business for 20 years.

The last of his kind, I'm afraid.

 

[SF_Express]

I loved this line from Safer:

His visits were preceded by the four dreaded words: Mike Wallace is here.

 

[MileHigh]

I loved this line from Safer:

His visits were preceded by the four dreaded words: Mike Wallace is here.

Great stuff. And the montage of his reactions to answers he was getting. Good, good stuff.

 

[YankeeFan]

In interviews after he retired, he said he would want his epitaph to read, “Tough But Fair.”

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/mike-wallace-60-minutes-pioneer-dies/?hp

Mike Wallace, you were tough, but fair.