Rest in peace Don Hewitt. A true innovator in television news.
RIP
Yes, many Freepers will have issues at the way the journalists he featured chose to perform their jobs (biased to the extreme even at the expense of their journalistic integrity, for starters), but nobody can deny Hewitt his phenomenal achievement in creating the genre. For many years, Hewitt's show was a veritable institution in this country - more influential than any of his copycat competitors could ever dream of becoming.