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...corporate bosses might be getting weak-kneed in the face of aggressive (and potentially expensive) threats of libel. It was CBS journalists on their most impressive high horse. "The public knows about this story because Mike and I made a calculated decision to tell them," executive producer Don Hewitt told Time in a phone interview early last week. "In most companies, it would be put on a dusty back shelf...
...week, however, Hewitt and Wallace were no longer talking, after a published report suggested that CBS lawyers may have had legitimate cause for concern. According to the Wall Street Journal, 60 Minutes made a number of unusual arrangements with the tobacco-industry source--later revealed to be former Brown & Williamson executive Jeffrey S. Wigand. He was reportedly paid a $12,000 "consultant fee" for work he had done on a previous 60 Minutes segment; was promised that the network would indemnify him against any possible libel suit resulting from the story; and given a pledge that the interview would...
...sent her into a cycle of binging and vomiting. "She spoke a lot about her bulimia," says TIME's Barry Hillenbrand. "And you got the impression that she suffered a great deal." Diana did admit to having her own affair, after the marriage became rocky, with Major James Hewitt, but said she felt betrayed by him when he went public. There was no mention in the interview of her relationship with English rugby star Will Carling. "You felt that to some extent she was trying to even the score with Charles," says Hillenbrand, "but she was harder on the royal...
...knew Milton Berle when she was a little girl and dated Roy Cohn in college. "Edward R. Murrow interviewed celebrities." Then there was the cbs producer who told her back in 1957, "You're a marvelous girl, but stay out of television." The producer, by the way, was Don Hewitt, now the executive producer of 60 Minutes...
Suspecting more dirty tactics, we asked Michelle Hewitt from the Dean of Students' office about those posters. "They shouldn't be there," she said, and she faxed us the postering policy from the Handbook for Student Organizations. It reads, "Do NOT place posters on entry posts, gates, poles, trees, sidewalks, and so on." Here was the model student organization, breaking the rules...