Ep. 504 — Chris Wallace
The Axe Files with David Axelrod
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I Think the Journal the Journalism on 60 Minutes, Is First Rate
60 minutes was really the first time in broadcast television that news was seen as a profit center. Once it became evident that you could attract big audiences, i think they were doing it the right way with very good, serious, tough journalism and a lot of contrariin journalism. A lot of pieces my father did ticked off liberals as well as conservatives. Ah, but i think it created in among the business people at networks a sense, we could go we could build audiences. And that them guts too. Well, if you're going to go build audiences,. You know, is it just that you try to do better journalim or maybe you begin to pander a bit?
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