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When CBS announced that it had bought rights to air 90 minutes of videotaped interviews between former President Richard Nixon and onetime Nixon Aide Frank Gannon, Executive Producer Don Hewitt of 60 Minutes said that the conversations revealed "a Nixon we have never seen before." If not quite that, the broadcast segments, for which CBS paid $500,000, show a controversial man at his most controversial. They were set to air this week and next on 60 Minutes and American Parade. A sampler...
Fool-Fo, impersonating by turns a police inspector, a high-court judge and a bishop, leads the local police through what is supposedly an official investigation of the anarchist's death. They (Tom Hewitt as the captain, Michael Jeter as the sergeant, Joe Palmieri as an inspector, Raymond Serra as the police chief) are basically cartoons of goons, the Four Stooges horsing around in the basement of the Lubyanka. Fo's jokes sometimes foozle aimlessly about the room like a balloon that jets on its own escaping air. An effort to give an essentially Italian product some American...
...network had obtained the tapes from Larry Flynt, the millionaire publisher of lurid Hustler magazine. Flynt made copies available both to 60 Minutes Executive Producer Don Hewitt and to a reporter for KNXT-TV, the CBS station in Los Angeles. The news executives concluded that there would be little impact on De Lorean's ability to get a fair trial and that the tapes' newsworthiness more than outweighed the risk. The CBS arguments about lack of impact and newsiness seemed to carom into each other. "This story is an old story," insisted Hewitt...
...There was nothing in those tapes that the Government hadn't described in detail" a year ago, at the time of De Lorean's arrest. So what was the news? All CBS had done, Hewitt explained, was to put "the real picture alongside the Government's word picture and show that they matched." In short, CBS believes that it performed the service of showing that the prosecutors were not lying...
...Miller and Nesson help create interesting and exciting television. Through keen and probing questions, they quickly advance arguments and perhaps unintentionally, often make some reporters appear nervous and uncertain. "I think it's healthy for reporters to get their feet in the fire." Hewitt says Nesson remembers that just moments before "Viewpoint'"s airtime, in "Nightline'"s usual timeslot, moderator Ted Koppel told the assembled reporters. "You're about to confront the snarling tiger...