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Mike Wallace Has Died At Age 93

Posted by Ellen -7842.60pc on April 08, 2012 · Flag

RIP Mike Wallace, father of Fox News host Chris Wallace, and a gold standard for broadcast journalism. My interest in news and media traces directly back to Wallace and 60 Minutes. It's no accident that he won 21 Emmies, the last in 2008, at age 89 (for an interview with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad).

Wallace did not lead a charmed life. He suffered from devastating depression, he had a nervous breakdown, he lost his eldest son and he was married numerous times. He was also not the nicest of people. In a fascinating obituary, the New York Times wrote:

“There would be blood on the floor,” Mr. Wallace said in the interview. He said he developed the “not necessarily undeserved reputation” of being prickly — he used a stronger word — and “of stealing stories from my colleagues,” who came to include Morley Safer, Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and Diane Sawyer in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Whatever his personal shortcomings, his professional accomplishments were pioneering and now iconic.

Our sympathies go to his family, including Fox News' Chris Wallace.

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truman commented 2012-04-09 11:03:10 -0400 · Flag
Mike Wallace, Walter Cronkite, Harry Reasoner, David Brinkley, etc. The authoritative news sources of my childhood. Today, children of the Teabagger Nation get their “news” from Bildo, KKKlannity and Greta Van Suckup.
Aria Prescott commented 2012-04-08 18:15:07 -0400 · Flag
He was amazing- never let his opinion get in the way of the facts.
doors17 commented 2012-04-08 14:01:21 -0400 · Flag
We lose another of the greatest generation of journalist. 93 years well spent. What a remarkable life. Not just a witness to history, but interviewing history.

There use to be an old joke that the most feared words a corporate CEO or a politician could hear was Mike Wallace is here and wants to talk to you.

Thank you Mr. Wallace, and happy Easter to all of you at News Hounds.
mj - the same one commented 2012-04-08 14:00:46 -0400 · Flag
One of the last — perhaps THE last — true journalists. RIP.

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