RatherGate: Story wouldn't have gotten 60 Seconds from Show's Creator
On Kerry:
"You can't play war hero if it's about a war where you threw your medals away," Don Hewitt, the 82 year old creator of "60 Minutes" said recently when interviewed after receiving the 2004 Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in Journalism at the University of South Dakota.
On RatherGate:
"I never would have done the story," said Hewitt, who retired in June as the show's executive producer after 36 years.
"I would have been very wary injecting myself into a campaign. You've got to be very careful that you're not perceived as doing the job that one of the two candidates should be doing himself."
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"You can't play war hero if it's about a war where you threw your medals away," Don Hewitt, the 82 year old creator of "60 Minutes" said recently when interviewed after receiving the 2004 Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in Journalism at the University of South Dakota.
On RatherGate:
"I never would have done the story," said Hewitt, who retired in June as the show's executive producer after 36 years.
"I would have been very wary injecting myself into a campaign. You've got to be very careful that you're not perceived as doing the job that one of the two candidates should be doing himself."
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posted by Jason at 10/01/2004 08:50:00 AM
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