Don Hewitt
Don Hewitt
Donald Shepard "Don" Hewittwas an American television news producer and executive, best known for creating 60 Minutes, the CBS television news magazine, in 1968, which at the time of his death, was the longest-running prime-time broadcast on American television. Under Hewitt's leadership, 60 Minutes was the only news program ever rated the nation's top-ranked television program, an achievement it accomplished five times. Hewitt produced the first televised presidential debate in 1960...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth14 December 1922
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
It sits as a force in your hand. You can change stations with a button. You change advertisers' income. You force networks to think about every fifteen minutes of programming now.
I have a built-in bias against reporters who have axes to grind. I think there are reporters that allow their own bias to encroach on their journalism, and that's a crime against journalism.
Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.
When there was a disaster, it used to be that people went to church and all held hands. Now the minute anything happens they run to CNN.
I can tell you categorically that we at 60 Minutes did not pay Michael Jackson one cent.
The businessman only wants two things said about his company-what he pays his public relations people to say and what he pays his advertising people to say. He doesn't like anybody ever to look above, beyond or over that.
I plan to die at my desk.
Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.
It's a movie, OK? I went to see GONE WITH THE WIND, but did I really believe there was a guy named Rhett Butler who said, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"? No. Movies need heroes and villains, and real life doesn't usually have heroes and villains. Real life has a lot of shades of gray, and moves have black and white even when they're in color.
I've always said there are four words that every child in the world knows, and those are, "Tell me a story,." Even the people who wrote the Bible knew that. They told stories, like the story of Noah.
You know that clicker? It's going to change the world more than any other thing.
He can thread a needle with a well-turned phrase.
Artie had an eye for what worked visually and what didn't. He was invaluable to me.
He was probably the best-blocking running back I ever saw. He was just an outstanding player who always knew how to keep the team loose. He always had everyone laughing when he would pull tricks on guys.