Mike Wallace
Mike Wallace
Myron Leon "Mike" Wallacewas an American journalist, game show host, actor and media personality. He interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers during his sixty-year career. He was one of the original correspondents for CBS' 60 Minutes, which debuted in 1968. Wallace retired as a regular full-time correspondent in 2006, but still appeared occasionally on the series until 2008...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth9 May 1918
CountryUnited States of America
I had a few things to say about him, and he cried. I think he's the real deal.
I'm going to more and more these days.
If you don't like me, you go to Wallace.
If you feel that strongly that we can get better candidates from California, let's get our next mayor or our next commissioner from there.
If you come at it from subject matter, you're never going to get there, Leave it open to struggle and contest, and don't give up too quickly.
Can you imagine the most trusted man in America? Cronkite deserved it too.
I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself.
I have no doubt that what we started has become a plague. Because - and that's a million years ago but we got caught up in the drama more than we caught up in going after the facts.
In the best of all possible worlds, everybody would be honorable, but that's not the way the world works. Reputations for reporters are made by discovering things underneath that rock.
If you think about the two different products, they have some things in common that most people wouldn't expect.
I read rip-and-read news, but I wasn't a reporter. I was reading the wire, and the other thing was, I was reading commercials - and I could do a hell of a commercial.
The bet was that you were going to take me to lunch or dinner, ... So what's it going to be?
That's like a smack in the face before you even get started. I guess you can always be a critic when you're standing on the outside.
And what you're doing to baseball now, you're taking on the whole baseball establishment,