Luckily for him, the TV news business is stacked with talented a–holes. 16, his memoir about his career at “60 Minutes” and its competitors, ABC’s “20/20” and “Primetime Live.” “I’d rather work with a talented a–hole than a nice person without talent,” Rosen writes in “ Ticking Clock” (St. That incident set the blueprint for Rosen’s next four decades. “If you are going to listen to everything he says, you will go crazy, so I figured out a way to go into a cone of silence.” “I tuned him out,” his colleague explained wearily. The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images Legendary “60 Minutes” journalist Mike Wallace was a terror behind the scenes, screaming invective at co-workers and snapping women’s bra straps, according to a memoir from onetime CBS News producer Ira Rosen. Later, a shell-shocked Rosen asked Maraynes how he withstood the tantrum. It was the most astonishing verbal abuse I had ever witnessed.” “Wallace cursed Allan, told him that he was a failure as a producer, and that he would be demoted as soon as we returned to New York. “Mike went crazy,” Rosen writes, grabbing fistfuls of documents from Maraynes’ briefcase and hurling them into his face as he struggled to keep the vehicle on the road. Senior producer Allan Maraynes broke the bad news as he drove Wallace into town from the airport, with Rosen in the back seat. But while Wallace was in transit to the West Coast, the source bailed out. The newly minted junior producer had spent weeks sweet-talking a federal investigator into agreeing to appear on camera with Wallace, CBS News’ top correspondent. It was 1980 and Rosen, then 26, was on his first assignment for the legendary news program, investigating union violence in Los Angeles. Right after getting hired at “60 Minutes,” Ira Rosen witnessed one of Mike Wallace’s signature meltdowns. CNN to offer Don Lemon’s former co-host Kaitlan Collins primetime slot: reportĭon Lemon’s fiery exchange with GOP candidate left CNN leaders ‘exasperated’ĬNN blasts Don Lemon for ‘inaccurate’ claim about his firing

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