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In more than a half century with CBS News, Don Hewitt has been responsible for many of the greatest moments in television history, including the first broadcasts of political conventions in 1948; the first Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960; and, most spectacularly, for the past 34 years, 60 Minutes, for which he has been the creator, executive producer, and driving force of the news program that has redefined television journalism.
In Tell Me a Story, Hewitt presents his own remarkable life story in his own words, from his time as a reporter for Stars & Stripes during the Second World War, to the heady exhilaration of the early days of television, to the triumphs and controversies of 60 Minutes. Hewitt has been at the center of events, covering some of the leading cultural and political figures of our century, and working with an all-star roster of journalists.
Hewitt also speaks bluntly, with affection and humor, about the promise and the shortcomings of television news, and offers surprising perspectives on its continued power and potential as we move into a new media environment. The key to his success, as Hewitt is fond of saying, is "I may not know a lot, but I think I know how to tell a story." Never has his storytelling talent been on better display than in the pages of this extraordinary book.
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Dorothy Osterholm
reviewed Tell Me A Story on February 08, 2018
Tell Me A Story
Given this book as a gift from Marilyn Hewitt, the author's wife (well, widow). Reading it made me sad that I'll never get to meet the man--as this book illustrates, he's always got an entertaining story handy, and even though he swears like a sailor in a paddy wagon he's great company. The first half the book resonates with me most because of the way it captures the lawlessness, the revolution-in-the-air atmosphere of the early days of television. Hewitt's own role in infusing the news with entertainment--or at least, in packaging it that way--I'll leave to the history books. Surprising how downbeat he is about television towards the end--for all it's given him, he argues, convincingly and against his own interests, that this isn't what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they drew up the First Amendment. Some of the proposals here, coming as they do from an avowed centrist, border nearly on Socialism, and I gasped a couple of times at his suggestions. And he is presciently gung-ho about the power of the internet to disseminate information in a way every bit as disruptive to television as television was to print and radio. Props to him for refusing to play it safe, in what could very well have been (and is to some degree) a victory lap.
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