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https://nypost.com/2021/02/06/new-book-reveals-worst-about-famed-news-anchors/
Right after getting hired at “60 Minutes,” Ira Rosen witnessed one of Mike Wallace’s signature meltdowns.
“Mike went crazy,” Rosen writes, grabbing fistfuls of documents from Maraynes’ briefcase and hurling them into his face as he struggled to keep the vehicle on the road.
Mike Wallace never mellowed with age. At ABC, Rosen partnered with Chris Wallace, who had a fractious relationship with his father both personally and professionally.
Chris Cuomo, now a CNN anchor, brought little journalism experience — but a heaping helping of entitlement — to ABC when he landed a correspondent’s job there.
“His brother [Gov. Andrew Cuomo] nicknamed Chris ‘Mansion Boy’ because Chris spent his teen years at the governor’s Albany mansion” during their father’s administration, Rosen snickers.
In 2003, execs at “Primetime Live” asked Rosen to mentor Cuomo in investigative journalism.
“I reluctantly agreed,” Rosen writes. “Cuomo greeted me with, ‘I understand that you are my new bitch.’ ”
“He lost me at hello,” Rosen recalls. “That son of a bitch Cuomo, I thought, he is definitely going to go far in this business.”
While his caustic arrogance was unwelcome at ABC, Cuomo made it part of his act on cable.