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Wallace regularly peppered colleagues with questions about their sex lives; lashed out at them for no good reason; grabbed the bottoms and breasts of women who worked in the office; pulled them onto his lap; and snapped bra straps.

"The verbal harassment I experienced from Mike Wallace and other TV big shots was, in a word, criminal," Rosen writes. He says he stuck it out for so long "in part out of fear, but mostly out of ambition."

It is depressing to think that a "60 Minutes"-worthy story on the ingrained culture of harassment at a cultural institution took place at the nation's most prestigious and most popular TV newsmagazine. The writer Sally Quinn ventured into this territory in "We're Going to Make You a Star," a 1975 memoir about her stint at CBS News. She wrote that Hewitt tried to sabotage her after she said no to his advances. (The reviews were vicious.)


In a 1991 article for Rolling Stone, the journalist Mark Hertsgaard reported that Hewitt and Wallace routinely harassed women in the workplace. In 2017, "60 Minutes" tried to obscure its past. Richard Zoglin, a biographer, was hired by Simon & Schuster, a publisher then owned by the CBS Corporation, to write a book on the show's history in time for its 50th anniversary. After he started asking about the treatment of women on staff, he was replaced by a new author: Jeff ***er, who had succeeded Hewitt as the show's top producer.

Rosen does not go into the book fiasco but does note that CBS fired Charlie Rose, a "60 Minutes" correspondent and a co-anchor of "CBS This Morning," after a number of women had accused him of sexual harassment. He also includes the 2018 firing of ***er, whose career ended after he sent a threatening text message to a CBS reporter who was preparing a "CBS Evening News" segment that dealt with allegations of sexual harassment against ***er himself. (The problem went to the very top: The CBS Corporation also fired the company's chief executive, Leslie Moonves, after a dozen women accused him of sexual harassment and sexual assault.)

In an article about a 2018 investigation of the CBS workplace culture commissioned by the CBS board, The New York Times reported that the company paid more than $5 million to a former CBS News employee who said that Hewitt, who died in 2009, had repeatedly sexually assaulted her and destroyed her career during his time in charge. The settlement, reached in the 1990s, gives her annual payments for the rest of her life.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/books/review/ticking-clock-60-minutes-ira-rosen.html

Who was the dude who called women into the office and had a special button under his desk to remote lock the door?

Brian Williams or the balding flocker that worked with Katie Couric?

Now that Trump is gone, the NYT is "back" trying to get the "journalist" respect it once had.

Never happens.

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Who was the dude who called women into the office and had a special button under his desk to remote lock the door?

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Matt Lauer.

prominent left wing activist and former CBS CEO Les Moonves thinks nothing bad happened, so shut up OP

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Who was the dude who called women into the office and had a special button under his desk to remote lock the door?

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Matt Lauer.

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Rush called him Matt Wower!

So Chris Wallace's dad was a scumbag. Explains alot

Left attacking left. Feels goooood.

Would've been nice if they could show some character and not wait until after inauguration to be honest about certain things. Like Cuomo being pretty horrible over the last year.

That show is total joke. The whole damn thing is slanted left and may as well be an extension of the DNC.
Tonight they are doing a feature on QAnon. Surprise surprise. Next week the gem of journalism leslie stahl will have yet another story about horrible Trump was.
60 minutes of liberal propaganda - DNC must love all the free media they get.

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60 minutes of liberal propaganda - DNC must love all the free media they get.

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Rush speculated once that the media was not the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party, as much as the Democrats were the political wing of the media.

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"The verbal harassment I experienced from Mike Wallace and other TV big shots was, in a word, criminal," Rosen writes. He says he stuck it out for so long "in part out of fear, but mostly out of ambition."

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So now we know what Rosen is, and we're just haggling about price?

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So Chris Wallace's dad was a scumbag. Explains alot

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And I hope Chris Wallace has to answer questions. Would be something to see this guy lose it because he's an emotional ass.

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So Chris Wallace's dad was a scumbag. Explains alot

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Exactly.

Also, remember the sanctimonious Leslie Stahl "Sir, this is CBS news, we can't report on stories we can't verify" to POTUS Trump a few months ago?

Drive by media is and has been a CLOWN SHOW. Rathergate was a minor little sub plot compared to CBS fake news today.

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So Chris Wallace's dad was a scumbag. Explains alot

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Maybe Chris should pay reparations.

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60 minutes of liberal propaganda - DNC must love all the free media they get.

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Rush speculated once that the media was not the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party, as much as the Democrats were the political wing of the media.

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Well, the media does pick the Dem nominee each election so there's that...