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Article: Don Hewitt's durable hour: a pioneering newsmagazine hits 25. ('60 Minutes') (Cover Story)
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- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 1993
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A Pioneering Newsmagazine Hits 25
Back in 1989, in an interview at his New York office, Don Hewitt, inventor of 60 Minutes and the modern TV newsmagazine, reflected on the program's legacy: "We changed the face of television. In our wake came PM Magazine, That's Incredible!, 20/20, God knows how many NBC magazines.... They just keep coming out of the woodwork for a very simple reason. They look for the profit-or-loss thing and say, |That's the way to make money.'"
But in the summer of 1993 he tells a slightly different story about the proliferation of TV magazines prompted by 60 Minutes's impressive profit margins. "60 Minutes has single-handedly ruined ...