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After almost 38 years as a 60 Minutes correspondent, Mike Wallace has decided to retire. TV Newser reports that Wallace will take the role of Correspondent Emeritus, and Wallace tells the Times: more
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The 60 Minutes correspondents narrated and focused these "mini-dramas." Several of the show's journalists had established positions as personalities before 60 Minutes, but with the program's growing success and significance, the correspondents reached international celebrity status, becoming crusaders, detectives, sensitive and introspective guides through social turmoil, and insightful probers of the human psyche. A confrontational style of journalism, pioneered by Mike Wallace, grew and was embraced by a more confrontational society. In the 1970s certain correspondents seemed to speak for a public under siege by institutional greed and deceit.
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You all know Wallace as a correspondent on 60 Minutes, a role he has held since the show's beginning in September 1968. Today, Wallace announced his plans to retire this spring, at the close of the current television season.
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HOUSTON -- As expected, Roger Clemens denied all allegations of steroid and human growth hormone use during an interview with Mike Wallace, televised on "60 Minutes" Sunday evening. He took it one step further before the interview aired, filing a defamation lawsuit against his former trainer Brian McNamee.
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Roger Clemens will receive a major showcase to answer the Mitchell Report: The star pitcher will sit for a "60 Minutes" interview. That chat with Mike Wallace is scheduled to air Jan. 6.
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