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" Television lost a legend this week. Don Hewitt recognized as the father of television news in the creator of the mediums most successful broadcast. Sixty minutes. You -- a guy who left a lasting mark on television. Died on Wednesday. Murray's a lot of people say that he sort of -- Entertainment values to television news you --"

" I think so but he. -- see it at the core with an appearance to journalists -- What he brought was. What he realized was that personalities. Told stories so he assembled a cast what he he was a big -- about. So he called -- his you know All-Star Broadway cast Mike Wallace. Morley Safer and Bradley. It was a kind of journalism that intertwined the person telling the story with the story and it was. Imitated. Ad -- and you know interestingly sixty minutes has stayed the same."

" Her thirty years don't let me ask another big Broadway fans all around us -- autobiography was called tell -- story some say that for him. The story mattered more than the facts. I don't know look. The thing about Don -- was yes there's inherent."

" Show business in television it is a visual medium the print people are far more cerebral. And so you've got to give people a reason to watch but the thing I loved about -- you it is that we got into show business as usual this was more Renee Fleming then Paris Hilton. It was a higher class and when he didn't -- CNN entertainment it made you want to watch it. -- there's so many stories they did it -- fascinating in interstate but let's not forget Hewitt wasn't the only pioneer we have some pretty good -- when I was at NBC to. People like -- Franken Bob Kantor and -- these were all pioneer says Rubin wrote in his book out of thin air they were making it up as they went along. Don -- making it up last -- is -- is set for over three decades that's not."

" That -- and another one of the old timers we lost this week columnist Robert Novak talk about his contribution to Robert Novak made everybody in America who read his column feel like an insider from. He was fearless. He was smart and he was. I I had provision knowing -- reasonably well he was unbelievably hard working you go to a political event he'd be there you go to some his office he -- I mean just. Like David Broder thinking of people been around a long time they're still doing it at a pretty old age because they really love what they -- You're referring to me an analyst. -- this is."

" They're very few syndicated columnist -- can make it out there involved had it is peak I think 300 papers. Or so working in Raleigh -- these guys were real reporters they they develop sources they just didn't sit there offices and write commentary about what other people have done. And that kind of shoe leather reporting is becoming endangered species to the detriment of journalism and to the detriment of the public."

" One other contributors on the fox forum this week suggested that Robert Novak was always written up -- as a conservative columnist. But no one ever applied the liberal label to Don Hewitt when many of his stories tended to lean that way do you -- little harder -- probably --"

" And I think the differences that Robert Novak considers himself conservative right I mean it's it's it you're sort of self identifying that way versus a person who says I'm you know. There are certain journalists I think we all suspect maybe are Democrats that they say -- I'm a journalist endlessly self identified LA I think it's long hard wait."

" and prepared are you saying that CBS news -- liberal. -- the polls the data show overwhelmingly. That through most of the last 4050 years CBS's the most liberal -- with Dan rather and and and sixty minutes is a great show -- more -- hit pieces. On business and people they didn't like -- on and it definitely pioneered a style of -- of an advocacy attacks but it was entertaining. Hit piece of like flat like I got a business -- like our mail every neighborhood -- people they. Camera yeah pull people and so I admit it did you know it -- it's become accepted now but one times -- employee. After the kill somebody -- in around since the beginning of journalists -- well okay the TV camera brought a new element to it that."

" Mike Wallace about a new element to it."

" There were probably on on balance more stories about big business bad that kind of thing. On sixty minutes."

" I when they were doing bad things I think and I have some striving at a time warrant wasn't justified and in. They brought out things like you know what was going on -- tobacco business that nobody had any idea and enough. These are revolutionary -- stories changed completely ladies let that -- industry and I don't there's anything unfair about it I mean I think it but."

" What you think and lets you think there's a right to -- unless you think it's appropriate."

" He's not a right to smoke is about knowing what you -- secret memos of things that they were intentionally misleading consumers and and that's important information all right I feel another argument."

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