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Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick … Mike Wallace, 87, retired from 60 Minutes
National Review, April 10, 2006
* 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 continuously since 1963, though he served an earlier stint that began in 1951--the year Edward R. 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 middle America have long been lost to competition (cable, the Internet) and to its own incorrigible 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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