’60 Minutes’ Producer Claims NY Times Won’t Print His Letter

Roger Friedman of FoxNews.com reports CBS’ ’60 Minutes’ executive producer Don Hewitt is hopping mad at the New York Times. They won’t print his letter to the editor regarding the Times’ assertion that CBS paid Michael Jackson $1 million for his interview. In his letter to Keller, Hewitt wrote: “How could a newspaper that prides itself on publishing ‘news that’s fit to print’ allow an anonymous and admittedly disgruntled source with an axe to grind put damaging and utterly false words in the mouth of a journalist as respected as Ed Bradley? Is it not a violation of journalistic ethics to publish an unsubstantiated story about anyone (let alone a fellow journalist of the stature of Ed Bradley) without getting corroboration that he actually said what you quoted him as saying?” Read more.