Mike Wallace has died at age 93

[Stinky The Clown]

Links and info to follow in an edit.

CBS.com now carrying a non-linked "Breaking" banner.

http://www.cbsnews.com/?tag=hdr;snav

It was announced at the end of the CBS Sunday show just a few moments ago.

Second edit:



http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57410999/remembering-mike-wallace-1918-2012/

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Not seeing it anywhere - where did you hear it?

[Stinky The Clown]

4. There is a link in the edited OP. It was on the CBS Sunday show just a minute or two ago.

Now announced on Face The nation

[Cooley Hurd]

5. Makes sense they would have it first.

[Kaleva]

2. He was 40 when I was born!

[joeybee12]

3. That's too bad...he did a good job...

except for spawning Chris Wallace.

RIP, Mike

[slampoet]

6. darn.

[MineralMan]

7. Well, that's sad.

Hmph!

[Botany]

8. one of the good ones

[the antichristie]

15. Amen

Not many real journalists left. RIP, sir!

[dems_rightnow]

9. Somebody, maybe everybody, is getting bumped from 60 Minutes tonight.

I expect they've had a piece ready to air for a while.

[Stinky The Clown]

10. Most all news organizations have obits (and feature obits) ready ofr every celeb

They update them constantly.

For example, right now, as I type this, Face The Nation is doing a bio with Morley Safer narrating.

[lunatica]

11. Time does march on doesn't it?

He's been around my entire life. I'm 64 this year.

[Stinky The Clown]

12. He's a year older than my parents.

[Stinky The Clown]

13. More factual info:

He died at 8.00 last night at a "care center" in New Haven, CT, where he had lived for several years. His family was with him. (per Bob Sheaffer on Face the Nation, just now.)

[PCIntern]

14. when I was kid I watched him on the show "Biography",

and used to learn a lot about a lot of people - it was one of those shows which gave people some general sense about famous individuals AND contributed to the viewer's breadth of knowledge such that as a 12 year old, if some referenced Madame Chiang Kai-shek, one didn't give that blank look of "WHO?"

My Progressive family was not thrilled with the manner in which Wallace interviewed those on the Left in the Fifties and early Sixties, but in retrospect, he, like Cronkite, also had much more common sense and knowledge of history and journalism than most of the anchors today.

Fascinating life, fascinating guy. He was almost the last of his era...Murrow, Collingswood, Huntley, Brinkley, McGee, and many many others, now only seen on Youtube...

[monmouth]

19. One of my favs back in the day was John Cameron Swayze. They're all leaving us...n/t

[kiva]

16. RIP, Mike

A great reporter and a fixture on TV as I grew up and aged.

[trumad]

17. Dude goes way back

[Greybnk48]

18. I started watching Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes in the 70's

I was in my 20's then, and my 41 year old daughter was a little punk. He was a no holds barred investigator until the tobacco expose. I was heartbroken to learn what they did to him in the movie The Insider. What a scrapper he was.

RIP Mike.

[bvar22]

20. He was a "NewsMan".

Sadly, his fruit fell FAR from his tree.

[Stinky The Clown]

21. I am **TOTALLY** amazed that 60 Minutes didn't have a piece ready tonight

They're going to do a tribute next week.

Every news organization that is, in fact, a news organization has obits and even feature obits in the can and have staff keep them updated.

[Marrah_G]

22. Rest in Peace Mr. Wallace

I had no idea he was so old.