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Book World: Tales of egos, ulcers and misbehavior at '60 Minutes'


Book World: Tales of egos, ulcers and misbehavior at 60 Minutes
Susan Benkelman, The Washington Post
Feb. 19, 2021
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Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes
By Ira Rosen
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Television news producers operate outside the spotlight, figuring out story angles, sweating the details and persuading reluctant sources to go on camera. They also manage impossibly difficult personalities, get blamed for segments that go off the rails and generally don t get credit for things that go right.
Ira Rosen lasted 40 years in this environment, some of that time spent as a producer for the legendary Mike Wallace, who in Rosen s telling was as intimidating behind the scenes as he was on camera, bullying producers until they were literally sick. The tension of the job led other producers to develop heart disease or cancer at an early age, Rosen writes in his memoir, Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes. One producer named his ....

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