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...exactly a ringing endorsement of your firstborn child. But CBS executives are trying hard to assure doubters that 60 Minutes Jr. will be a credit to its not-so-proud parent. The new show's executive producer is Jeffrey Fager, who spent five years as a producer for 60 Minutes and has been a hard-news champion as executive producer of the CBS Evening News since 1996. The new show will have an entirely separate staff, which means it won't divert resources from Hewitt's operation; yet more than half its producers have worked at 60 Minutes, which presumably...
...their campaign against the new show after they were persuaded, as CBS News president Andrew Heyward puts it, that "the train was going to leave the station, and they better not be tied to the tracks." Heyward vows that the new show will be "committed to their values." And Fager takes pains to separate 60 Minutes II from the time-filling rivals that Hewitt railed against. "This is an opportunity to give people more high-quality broadcast journalism," Fager says. "Isn't that a good thing...
...doing a story this week... of the battle between Russell Seitz and General Electric," said Jeff Fager, producer of the segment for 60 Minutes...
...heard?" asked ABC's Peter Jennings of Correspondent Elizabeth Colton. Colton was unsure who was doing what to whom; all she knew was what she heard, felt and saw. "Put your microphone out that window and let us hear it," urged CBS's Dan Rather of Producer Jeffrey Fager, who promptly did so, and the pop-pop-pop of artillery fire was heard in millions of American living rooms. Without pictures, television was reduced to radio...
...Students are finding Penn to be a more competitive place than it was several years ago, and they get depressed by all that work," Fager says, adding that the increased concern with grades and achievement is due to economic factors such as the high cost of a private education and the difficulty in finding jobs after graduation...