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Saying farewell to the extraordinary Mike Wallace

April 15, 2012 11:46 AM

For 40 years, it was the sound of the stop watch and Mike's voice that signaled the start of another edition of 60 Minutes. The broadcast pays tribute to a great reporter and colleague.

Saying farewell to the extraordinary Mike Wallace

60 Minutes OverTimeMike Wallace: A year since we lost him

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by redwood509 April 27, 2012 9:01 PM EDT
For his malicious and purposefully mean spirited and misleading story hat he broadcasted about the Syrian Jews in Damascus he will have many years to spend in hell before he could earn an upgrade to an improved residence. It is not nice to speak badly of the departed, but this man was one mean nasty piece of work! Jews like him were known in the camps as Capos, at CNS they are known as 60 Minutes reporters. I have no doubt he will have an additional companion soon!
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by WB2LDJ April 23, 2012 2:14 AM EDT
Well, another masterpiece production, thank you, thanks for the memories. Yet as a teacher i pay particular attention to outcomes, Mike Wallace had a lot of virtues, being a reporter is a virtuous profession, but our main goal in life should be to perfect our relationship with God thourgh a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Very few of you people ever use the power of your position to lend God a hand and put in a good word for Him and His work in this world. What you presented in the story of Mike Wallace on this topic was not a good reference to God. This is about the ultimate success or failure. GRS
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by furtiveadmirer April 20, 2012 1:16 PM EDT
the MOST IMPORTANT HISTORICAL QUESTION was never asked to MALCOLM X:

"DO YOU HAVE A SON, BARI MALIK SHABAZZ who is being raised in Indonesia?"
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by MyGreenBuildings April 19, 2012 12:19 AM EDT
Condolences to the Wallace family. Thank you for sacrificing so much of your time with Mike so he could enrich the rest of us. He will be missed!
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by Worthalot April 17, 2012 5:05 PM EDT
Will today be a good day or completely downhill??? Is Mike Wallace waiting for me.... He was and is one in a million. Mike we miss you......
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by Theflowmanager April 17, 2012 4:30 PM EDT
Thank you for the stories Mike. It was a job well done! RIP
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by Jade49 April 17, 2012 4:25 PM EDT
Like many others, 60 Minutes and Mike Wallace were part of every Sunday night in my parents house. He set the bar for the rest of us when it came to focus, not backing down, and completing what he started. He will be missed by those of us who grew up learning from him, but he left a lot of us to carry the torch forward in the world. Blessed Be!
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by pixman55 April 16, 2012 6:03 PM EDT
Mike was known in Chicago as Myron, his given name. An actor - he played the lead and ONLY character on "The Crime File of Flamond,"a nightly WGN radio mystery in which Mike narrated the whole thing. He also did daily interviews from the basement of Walgreen's on State Street. During one interview he seemed to be captivated by a beautiful actress named Buff Cobb. She became Mrs Wallace...for a while, anyway! His venture into TV was a syndicated interview show which brought him to the attention of CBS. The rest is, as they say, history.
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by Troubleshooter125 April 16, 2012 2:52 PM EDT
Having watched 60 Minutes almost since its beginnings over 40 years ago, and watched investigative journalism since that time, what I am struck with most about Mike Wallace is the impossibility of teaching what he did. Certainly, one can learn how to prepare for an interview, do the research, study the interviewee, et cetera, but the attitude, the focus, the determination and self-confidence that Mike Wallace exuded in such balance ... those are not traits that can be taught, I think, especially the balance he found and employed in the hundreds of interviews he conducted.

I think that's what makes the loss of Mike Wallace so critical ... because his well-polished skills are so needed in journalism right now. Yet Mike Wallace was a one-off, and journalism is far the less for his passing.
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by Eirik_Jakobsen April 16, 2012 12:51 PM EDT
It is an astonishing thing, to be reminded how a single individual with a purpose can accomplish so much in a single lifetime. Mike Wallace is not only an inspiration to aspiring and working journalist, he is also the benchmark to which all his colleagues should be judged as he embodies perseverence, tenacity, honesty, dilligence and wisdom.

Moreover, he is a source of inspiration - true inspiration - for everyone, not just journalists. To consider his body of work is simply astounding. Any single one of his remarkable interviews of world leaders, politicians or crooks is what careers are made of.

A man of genuine spirit and grace is gone.

Rest in peace, Mike Wallace.
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