A major controversy during Don Hewitt’s tenure at 60 Minutes came in 1995 with the decision to kill a story about the tobacco company Brown & Williamson based on an interview with a whistleblower. CBS, fearing a lawsuit, ordered the segment not to run. It ultimately aired after The Wall Street Journal published the whistleblower’s claims. Jeff Fager, Hewitt’s successor, called the incident “a low point in our history.”
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