Over the course of his long career – 25 years as producer at 60 Minutes and another 15 years as senior producer of ABC’s Primetime Live and 20/20 – Ira Rosen has won a long list of accolades, including multiple Peabody and duPont awards, 24 Emmys and six Investigative Reporters and Editors awards -- more than Washington Post editor Bob Woodward. But for Rosen, the most … [Read more...]
‘Mike Wallace Is Here’: Doc of the original grillmaster raises dark questions
The road from Walter Cronkite and his generation of stoic newsreaders to the wild-eyed, pro-wrestling-style rantings of Alex Jones is paved through Mike Wallace. That’s one of the takeaways, not all of them positive and certainly not all hagiographic, that viewers can glean from Mike Wallace Is Here, a complex portrait of the influential TV reporter famous for his … [Read more...]