Hats off to one of the true innovators in TV history.
“60 Minutes” creator Don Hewitt, 86, who transformed television journalism by showing that news programs could generate money, and who helped make TV an essential part of politics when he produced and directed the first televised debate between U.S. presidential candidates, died Aug. 19 at his home in Bridgehampton, N.Y. He had pancreatic cancer. – From Washington Post
