Don Hewitt’s vision for 60 Minutes was to create a show that “packaged reality as attractively as Hollywood packages fiction.” When asked by journalists what the secret to the program’s success was, he often replied, “It’s four words every child knows: Tell me a story.” He imagined a television program that mimicked a magazine, able to move seamlessly between hard and soft news.
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