sadness over the weekend ab mike wallace passed away at the age of ninety three
he apparently had heart surgery about three years ago uh... and uh... she was
in the long term care center in new haven connecticut when he passed away
now of course everybody's coming together and talking about what it
excellent journalists he was he was known for being very tough onto the
people he would interview
he would up have great follow-up questions that you would like to have
the people here he was interviewing get away with you know
talking points are things like that so you know it
geriatric actually this morning taking tests on something that's really really
important
instead of celebrating what a great journalist who was why don't people in
the media
use him as an example of improving
right steve croft uh... who've course was on sixty minutes uh... along with
uh... mike wallace
said he was hands-down the best solution
well if that's the case why you won't be confidence
why do you all keep doing softball interviews an over sixty minutes did
some of the best on television
i'm referring to the whole media everybody on television like our how
great it was mike wallace let's make sure we don't do what he did
okay and whatever with somebody comes on list b incredibly polite let's not do
any follow-up questions was just a as standard questions that have the new
standard talking points and move on who's going to get in trouble
now i'd swing in new york a little bit of a refresher on some of the questions
now mike wallace asked quizzes hundreds of these but does that uh... reminder
uh... how you see that the politics to spot
as bad as i was talking recent years of style a bit
no one suggests that either you or your opponent hubert humphrey have a good
deal of it
have you given no thought to this aspect of campaigning and of leaving
and once again i thought i had that pattern
some difficult questions about things that she was so good ratings curable
what does your husband wrote the book
lapham
advising the president of the united states lies
adult no one not our popular on contract
to talk to you intelligently about it
all i know is that he did not
he had done anything wrong with it now all of anything that was going on you're
going to be in japan and i'm told it's a two million dollar two weeks
for approval
two of us
there were reports of a crazy
but it's going to be on of well reckoned heads
helpful for everybody involved there
with one
probably know
when you really didn't need that question
go there
knowing kidney that question
so two things i love the mayor's he's asked about money like how often
they ask rama anymore almost never right like haiti g_-eight
created two million dollars universe speech have other millions egon
uh... from your donors and then did you vote their way
car would be great if they ask those questions these days
and then uh... about a asked fixing basically say
look it's obviously of no crisp
sophmore corset what's your plan for getting ahead the on that
can you imagine somebody asset the bush mortal balm and all walk
that media would be outraged abhijit instead of a president
why not beer are representative we like to them were
in essence all the sea and there are there blocks so if we have to hold their
feet to the fire so they love giving credit to people like that have already
passed away follicle theater rage on delivery to the wire
i'll tell you what i have learned absolutely nothing for me
you know i seriously but what i'm curious about is what makes things
different now
because now we have this whole issue of access didn't they have the same issue
of access back in the day when he was doing that interview with
uh... unix and nancy reagan all of those people that he was tough on yes i'll
tell you that one of the things that's very different and it's a great story
this sam donaldson told us on the other church
long time ago with everyone our radio show course long-time a_b_c_
correspondent white house correspondent during the reagan years and beyond
and he said
everytime that i have some tough question for the at the reagan white
house
of the white house would call my boss will is a_b_c_
any up
and every time they did that
noon would give me a rates
uh... nice ok com so that's how they did in the old days and in the old days
there was limited outlets
so the white house was stocked with the idea that the other money at their
message out they gotta go to a_b_c_ c_b_s_ or n_b_c_
and the bigger repetitious on one hand like mike wallace
then they felt like mohali a bigger audience i gotta go to mike even though
he asked me to have questions right
and he got the big arati is by asking the tough questions now this many
outlets so they're like if you don't play ball on a t_v_ any access you're
done okay
and i've talked to reporters that cover washington that's a
if they come play access come down for
manager doesn't care
doesn't care about my cry story about a lot holding them
accountable it centers like you got no sources
you got no stories you dot
so things are flipped on their hat
and so now uh... you know that people in government have all the power
and they use it and conducted guys who run the
uh... the news that works and that's the key point that editors
calling for government wrong was met