Can Hewitt Stop Clock?

That stopwatch stops for no man. Don Hewitt, the 80-year-old executive producer, inventor, backbone and spiritual stiff upper lip of CBS’ 60 Minutes, has always been a man who valued the blunt truth. As Mr. Hewitt told Larry King on CNN last year, he preferred the days when politicians called each other “a son of Read More

Love & Death at 60 Minutes

Wednesday, Jan. 29 Jeff Fager, you’ve just been named the next executive producer of 60 Minutes. Do you-as your predecessor, 60 Minutes founder and id Don Hewitt, famously proclaimed-intend to die at your desk?

“No!” a laughing 48-year-old Mr. Fager said on Jan. 28, one day after CBS News announced a deal in which the Read More