NEW YORK (AP) - An expedition called him "a matter of minutes Andy Rooney."
They might better have called it "a few words of Andy Rooney."
Rooney, despite his decades of "60 Minutes" fixture, is a writer, not a talking head. That is, not improvising for the camera were his stock trading since the first "60 Minutes" test in 1978, as the words were more than 30 years.
But Sunday edition of "60 Minutes", Rooney has a few words last year. Transmission to celebrate his final comment on its long-term role in a specialist weekly. CBS says its program is 1097. Tick, tick, tick, tick ....
The news of his resignation was suddenly released earlier this week. Yet it was not really a surprise. Rooney is 92, and certainly recognize this truth: Words can not last forever, but not the person who crafts.
Rooney was a master of words on television since he joined CBS in 1949 as a writer for the red "Arthur Godfrey's talent scouts." In a few years he has also written for CBS News public affairs shows such as "The Twentieth Century" and "Calendar."
After World War II veteran, who reported to the military newspaper Stars and Stripes, came to the ink-is-dead-trees brand of journalism that has never given up. (CBS, his career, was a syndicated newspaper column and has published 16 books.)
It was therefore logical that he would join the "60 Minutes" with its founding in 1968. After all, "60 Minutes" creator of the legendary Don Hewitt, is well known for insisting that even in the visual media of television, the words come first and images follow. A decade later, Rooney was 59th at a time when many people might be pondering retirement, he took his seat in front of the camera to deliver his first "60 Minutes" essay.
Beetle-sortbrynede and disheveled, he was not telegenic traditional norms. No mind, or even noticed. Viewers heard her words, and he caught it.
Just because he has won and has the following to be discussed long after he's gone. Right now, that his appeal is sure to occupy the CBS News honchos as they ponder whether and how in his place. (CBS did not notice that score.)
They might better have called it "a few words of Andy Rooney."
Rooney, despite his decades of "60 Minutes" fixture, is a writer, not a talking head. That is, not improvising for the camera were his stock trading since the first "60 Minutes" test in 1978, as the words were more than 30 years.
But Sunday edition of "60 Minutes", Rooney has a few words last year. Transmission to celebrate his final comment on its long-term role in a specialist weekly. CBS says its program is 1097. Tick, tick, tick, tick ....
The news of his resignation was suddenly released earlier this week. Yet it was not really a surprise. Rooney is 92, and certainly recognize this truth: Words can not last forever, but not the person who crafts.
Rooney was a master of words on television since he joined CBS in 1949 as a writer for the red "Arthur Godfrey's talent scouts." In a few years he has also written for CBS News public affairs shows such as "The Twentieth Century" and "Calendar."
After World War II veteran, who reported to the military newspaper Stars and Stripes, came to the ink-is-dead-trees brand of journalism that has never given up. (CBS, his career, was a syndicated newspaper column and has published 16 books.)
It was therefore logical that he would join the "60 Minutes" with its founding in 1968. After all, "60 Minutes" creator of the legendary Don Hewitt, is well known for insisting that even in the visual media of television, the words come first and images follow. A decade later, Rooney was 59th at a time when many people might be pondering retirement, he took his seat in front of the camera to deliver his first "60 Minutes" essay.
Beetle-sortbrynede and disheveled, he was not telegenic traditional norms. No mind, or even noticed. Viewers heard her words, and he caught it.
Just because he has won and has the following to be discussed long after he's gone. Right now, that his appeal is sure to occupy the CBS News honchos as they ponder whether and how in his place. (CBS did not notice that score.)