The Media networks such as television, youtube, and newspapers are being swamped with tributes to Mike Wallace. Former colleagues Mike Wallace are sharing their memories of Wallace , who passed away on Saturday night at 93. Longtime colleague Morley Safer, who has co-hosted the legendary news program with Wallace since the early ’70s, put together a video tribute to Wallace.
The video features dozens of clips of Wallace doing what he did best: interviewing famous people, including almost every major figure from the White House to Hollywood. In a look back, Safer offers a glimpse into Wallace’s extensive list of interview subjects: Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and the Reagans; Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Vladimir Putin, and Yasser Arafat; Johnny Carson, Carol Burnett, Barbra Streisand and Leonard Bernstein.
Of course CBS themselves are planning a special tribute to thier "pioneer" for 60 Minutes.
“For more than six decades — four of them on this broadcast — he was a kind of one-man truth squad, a man with a remarkable gift for getting to the very core of a story,” veteran CBS News correspondent Morley Safer said at the top of “60 Minutes on Sunday night.
This was just a small part of the tribute. CBS plans on a whole segment to pay respects to Wallace. They are planning on it for sometime this or next week. Avoiding the rush from Easter Sunday. CBS's website pays tribute other than on thier tv station.
More than anyone of his generation, Wallace expanded the traditional definition of “news” on television. He personified the cachet of “60 Minutes” as a unique program that stood apart from what Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather served up on CBS at the dinner hour.
Wallace gave the broadcasts a sense of melodrama. When he unearthed corruption in business or government, he played his role of crusader to the hilt but with a high level of intelligence. Through his relentless digging, Wallace became known as television’s most dogged investigative reporter.
As Brant Houston, co-author of “The Investigative Reporter’s Handbook,” put it in a piece he wrote for CNN.com: Wallace “put a face on investigative reporting for the public. His career reflected how investigative journalism evolved from the 1950s into the 21st century and showed why we still need it.” Wallace unwittingly spawned a whole new genre in television journalism.