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Obit: Mike Wallace, 93

RIP Mike. You were a 60 Minutes legend!

-crainbebo
 
May he rest in blessed peace.

His generation's brand of journalism has been replaced, but not inherited. :-\
 
Too bad Journalism today has been seen as too propagandized. If Mike Wallace was here Today he will bash Fox, MSNBC, and CNN for being too one sided.
 
Even as a kid, I knew it was big trouble when Mike Wallace came to your business!

R.I.P.
 
recto101 said:
Too bad Journalism today has been seen as too propagandized. If Mike Wallace was here Today he will bash Fox, MSNBC, and CNN for being too one sided.




I agree
 
recto101 said:
Too bad Journalism today has been seen as too propagandized. If Mike Wallace was here Today he will bash Fox, MSNBC, and CNN for being too one sided.

I agree too. Its interesting that after all those decades, I have no idea what Mike's personal political views were...unlike say...his son Chris.

RIP Mike.
 
recto101 said:
Too bad Journalism today has been seen as too propagandized. If Mike Wallace was here Today he will bash Fox, MSNBC, and CNN for being too one sided.

Doubtful, as his son is one of the most visible faces on Fox.

93 was a darned good run. RIP.
 
Well I watched Scott Pelly on 60 Minutes. He tries to keep Mike Wallace's legacy alive. I know there was a story on 60 minutes and the CBS Evening News in 2011 when Steve Kroft exposed that Congress on both sides of the Aisle for insider trading.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3DZh1109W8

For Scott Pelly He did the Mortgage Fraud Story

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwrO6jhtC5E

He talks to Investigators and low level contractors for the lending companies that know about parts of the Mortgage fraud that lead to the 2008 crash.

However If Mike Wallace is here today he will have more respect for Jon Stewart. Stewart in 2009 exposed CNBC for Wall Street Propaganda and not investigating the fraud that took place. But CNBC does do a fraud show called "American Greed" By WBBM Anchor Bill Kurtis production company.
 
brian4 said:
Even as a kid, I knew it was big trouble when Mike Wallace came to your business!

R.I.P.
When I got my newspaper this morning I saw the words (or something like these) "If you were a businessman with something to hide, the four worst words in the English language were 'Mike Wallace is here'".

It's a shame "60 Minutes" didn't devote an episode to him last night, but waiting a week might result in a better product. I waited through about a half hour of golf (reading something while hoping to hear that it was over) only to hear NONE of the stories would be about him. I tuned in at the end and did hear "As we said". So I should have waited but wouldn't have gotten much.

He was my favorite of the reporters on that show and I never saw him as being that mean. Christopher Plummer portrayed him perfectly.
 
recto101 said:
Too bad Journalism today has been seen as too propagandized. If Mike Wallace was here Today he will bash Fox, MSNBC, and CNN for being too one sided.
I don't see the point in bashing those channels anymore. Any criticism is still attention to them and they won't change a thing because it equals ratings for them in the end. It seems the best thing to do is to ignore them and move on to better news outlets out there. That's just my opinion on the matter.

FreddyE1977 said:
93 was a darned good run. RIP.
Agreed.
 
Lkeller said:
recto101 said:
Too bad Journalism today has been seen as too propagandized. If Mike Wallace was here Today he will bash Fox, MSNBC, and CNN for being too one sided.

I agree too. Its interesting that after all those decades, I have no idea what Mike's personal political views were...unlike say...his son Chris.

RIP Mike.

This doesn't necessarily answer the question, but after winning the 1968 presidential election, Richard Nixon's first choice for Press Secretary was Mike Wallace, who politely turned it down.
 
RicoGregg said:
Lkeller said:
recto101 said:
Too bad Journalism today has been seen as too propagandized. If Mike Wallace was here Today he will bash Fox, MSNBC, and CNN for being too one sided.

I agree too. Its interesting that after all those decades, I have no idea what Mike's personal political views were...unlike say...his son Chris.

RIP Mike.

This doesn't necessarily answer the question, but after winning the 1968 presidential election, Richard Nixon's first choice for Press Secretary was Mike Wallace, who politely turned it down.

I heard that from KKSF 910 am. John Rothman talk about this on the Afternoon Drive. CBS Never talked about that part of Mike Wallace being offered the Press secretary seat for Nixon. But CBS did talk about Wallace being friends with President Reagan in the 1980's. I do know CBS talked about the 1982 incident when CBS and Wallace was sued for the Vietnam War expose and I do know there was "The Insider Movie" about Mike Wallace and the Tobacco Industry going after Wigand.
 
RicoGregg said:
Lkeller said:
Its interesting that after all those decades, I have no idea what Mike's personal political views were...unlike say...his son Chris.

RIP Mike.

This doesn't necessarily answer the question, but after winning the 1968 presidential election, Richard Nixon's first choice for Press Secretary was Mike Wallace, who politely turned it down.
...Larry King claims that, during Larry's first wave of success in Miami, Nixon also offered him the Press Secretary post; very odd, considering King's long-proclaimed status as a Roosevelt Democrat...
 
RicoGregg said:
Lkeller said:
recto101 said:
Too bad Journalism today has been seen as too propagandized. If Mike Wallace was here Today he will bash Fox, MSNBC, and CNN for being too one sided.

I agree too. Its interesting that after all those decades, I have no idea what Mike's personal political views were...unlike say...his son Chris.

RIP Mike.

This doesn't necessarily answer the question, but after winning the 1968 presidential election, Richard Nixon's first choice for Press Secretary was Mike Wallace, who politely turned it down.
As a child, I didn't know who George Wallace was, but I saw "Wallace for President". I thought they meant Mike.

I saw the "60 Minutes" broadcast. I think I made a mistake giving up ALL news magazines--even "60 Minutes". But back in 1994 there were too mnay.

I almost watched on DTV but the signal kept acting up so it's a good thing I taped it. I can remember when the CBS affiliate performed perfectly. I guess I've become dependent on cable.
 
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