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AND NOW HE'S DEAD

Don Hewitt, Who Created That Whole ‘News Magazine On TeeVee’ Thing, Has Died

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Ha, yeah, we thought they said 'Hugh Hewitt' at first, too.The Summer of Celebrity/News Death continues! Don Hewitt, the guy who created famous old-people program 60 Minutes, is dead at 86. He, like all people who died this summer and got obits in the NYT, is/was a legend. Legend of what, you ask? TeeVee! Before this guy, we hear, there was no such thing as the TeeVee News Magazine. We don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing — well, on second thought, it was probably a bad thing. The television news killed the important newspaper industry, remember? And now look where we are! [CBS News]