Mike Wallace V
When you live in America it is hard to come by a competent, non-trivializing news program. One shining example of brilliant journalism and captivating no-nonsense investigative reporting is CBS' "60 Minutes" however, making easily up for the trashy, gossipy boulevard infantilism disseminated in daily newscasts from all TV stations. I have watched 60 Minutes for many years, and the champion from the regular and already highly competent team has been Mike Wallace. He died yesterday at age 93.His style of witty, unrelenting and intrusive, often subtly aggressive (if that is possible) interviewing, supplemented with diligent and responsible research which had enabled him to never have to retract a story, was a surely winning combination. Two of his segments remain edged in my memory: sparring of wits with genius pianist Vladimir Horowitz, and his proper direct question to Ayatollah Khomeini, "Sir, aren't you insane?"
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