Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick ... Mike Wallace, 87, retired from 60 Minutes.* Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick ... Mike Wallace, 87, retired from 60 Minutes. How long has it been? Wallace was with the show when it started in 1968, having been at CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. continuously since 1963, though he served an earlier stint that began in 1951--the year Edward R. Murrow Noun 1. Edward R. Murrow - United States broadcast journalist remembered for his reports from London during World War II (1908-1965) Edward Roscoe Murrow, Murrow premiered his first TV show. It is no exaggeration to say that before Mike Wallace there was nothing. After him, there lies, not nothing exactly, but the diminished thing that network television has become. The days when it ruled midcult mid·cult n. A form of intellectual and artistic culture that has qualities of high culture and mass culture without being either. [mid(dlebrow) + cult(ure).] middle America have long been lost to competition (cable, the Internet) and to its own incorrigible in·cor·ri·gi·ble adj. 1. Incapable of being corrected or reformed: an incorrigible criminal. 2. Firmly rooted; ineradicable: incorrigible faults. 3. biases. With the passing of network television we leave behind a myth of community, which was false, but which gained some truth from having once been believed, and fare forward into our contentious, crazy, sometimes more honest present. |
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