The 60 Minutes Tell-All
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Mike and Dan are joined by Ira Rosen, a two-time Peabody Award-winning writer and former producer for CBS's 60 Minutes. He regales us with stories from his 40+ year career, including an insider perspective on Steve Bannon, Ghislaine Maxwell, mafioso Joe Bonanno, and, of course, Donald Trump. Ira also discusses the delicate process of cultivating sources, and the evolving mission of journalism in general.
GUEST:
- Ira Rosen, former producer, 60 Minutes
HOSTS:
- Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
- Dan Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
RESOURCES:
- Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes by Ira Rosen (St. Martin's Press, 2021)
- "The Week Trump Won" by David Brooks, New York Times (Oct. 26, 2017)
- "The Opioid Epidemic: Who Is to Blame?" CBS, 60 Minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You've heard the sound a thousand times, the ticking clock of 60 minutes, the most successful |
| 0:06.6 | news magazine show and television history, still on the air more than a half century after |
| 0:12.1 | it was launched. |
| 0:13.4 | As it always has, the show still breaks major investigative stories, lands exclusive |
| 0:17.5 | interviews, and wins awards. |
| 0:19.6 | But how exactly does the sausage get made? |
| 0:22.8 | Ira Rosen was for decades one of the show's top producers responsible for some of its biggest |
| 0:28.1 | headline grabbing exposés. |
| 0:30.4 | He's now written a controversial memoir entitled appropriately enough, Ticking Clock |
| 0:35.7 | Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes. |
| 0:38.1 | It's a fascinating count of his experiences in network television that includes blistering |
| 0:43.2 | upfront and personal portraits of the show's big name talent, along with personal vignettes |
| 0:48.9 | of celebrities from Marlon Brando to Tom Brady to Jackie Kennedy he's met along the way. |
| 0:55.1 | We'll talk to Rosen about his book and about some of the big stories that he got onto |
| 0:59.5 | the air as well as a few that didn't on this episode of Skull Duggery. |
| 1:26.7 | I'm Michael Isgov, Chief Investigator correspondent for Yahoo News. |
| 1:30.3 | And I'm Dan Clyde, Editor-in-Chief of Yahoo News. |
| 1:33.4 | And we are joined by Ira Rosen, author of Ticking Clock. |
| 1:38.3 | Ira, welcome to Skull Duggery. |
| 1:40.6 | Thanks guys. |
| 1:42.0 | So congrats on the book. |
| 1:44.6 | It's a delicious read filled with lots of fascinating anecdotes. |
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