" '60 Minutes' Commentator Dies of Cancer"

[GreenPartyVoter]

Trailblazing journalist Shana Alexander, whose verbal skirmishes with conservative James J. Kilpatrick on CBS'"60 Minutes" were spoofed in a "Saturday Night Live" skit, has died of cancer. She was 79.

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... Alexander was best known for her "Point-Counterpoint" segments with Kilpatrick at the end of each "60 Minutes" broadcast in the late 1970s.

"She was one of the first female journalists to become a big-time name in television journalism, when women were few and far between," the show's founding executive producer, Don Hewitt, told The Associated Press.

"Point-Counterpoint" was so popular it was frequently parodied in a "Saturday Night Live" skit. Jane Curtin played the liberal Alexander role and Dan Aykroyd, in the Kilpatrick role, began his remarks with the line, "Jane, you ignorant slut."

[evlbstrd]

1. Now you can show sluts, but you can't say slut.

Go figure.