Title: Ticking clock : behind the scenes at 60 minutes /
Authors: Rosen, Ira
Year: 2021
Subjects: 60 minutes (Television program); Television broadcasting of news United States; PERFORMING ARTS / Television / History & Criticism.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism.; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers.
Abstract: "Based on decades of access and experience, Ira Rosen takes readers behind closed doors to offer an incisive look at the show that invented TV investigative journalism. With surprising humor, charm, and an eye for colorful detail, Rosen delivers an authoritative account of the unforgettable personalities that battled for prestige, credit, and the desire to scoop everyone else in the game. As Mike Wallace&#x2019;s top producer, Rosen reveals the interview secrets that made Wallace&#x2019;s work legendary, and the flaring temper that made him infamous. Later, as senior producer of ABC News Primetime Live and 20/20, Rosen exposes the competitive environment among famous colleagues like Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters, and the power plays between correspondents Chris Wallace, Anderson Cooper, and Chris Cuomo." -- Amazon.com.
Contents: The phone call -- 60 Minutes begins -- Mike and Don -- Setting out -- Accident at Three Mile Island -- Hitting my stride -- Civil Rights leaders: Jackson and Sharpton -- Gangsters -- In search of the big story -- Lessons Learned -- Catching a fugitive -- Depression strikes -- A year at Harvard -- Interview with Dr. Strangelove -- Leaving 60 Minutes -- Primetime Live -- Food Lion -- Returning to 60 Minutes -- Starting over, again -- Tom Brady and Kim Kardashian -- Innocent Man -- The Clintons -- Hillary 2016 -- Mafia Boss John Gotti Jr. -- "Fringe players, frauds, and pretenders" -- Steve Kroft -- Grumpy Old Men -- NSA -- Trump -- The Mercers -- The whistleblower -- Charlie Rose and #Me Too -- No happy endings -- Time to go.