12-13-2022, 09:03 PM
(12-13-2022, 08:49 PM)GoodGrief Wrote: Phogge, please share with us, the names of the people who vetoed McCaffrey’s 60 Minutes story. I want to know who at our university is a complete idiot.
You know that I can’t do that. Alan Weisman was going to be the producer. I probably was his DP on 60 or 70 projects over the years. Best they ever had, IMO. The Gleason piece, the F20 fiasco, a bunch of Morley stories. Then Lillehammer profiles, Street Stories, SI 40 year anniversary, World Ventriloquist Convention, NAPTE, had four or five stories as the lead piece of a new season on the show. THE prime spot of the year. We were working on a Baffert/Justify story that would have been spectacular had not Charlie Rose “revealed” himself and then Alan had the temerity to pass away. Loved him like a brother.
As far as I know perhaps McCaffery didn’t want to do it. I always suspected that Shaw thought it would be a distraction. And when you come right down to it how many recruits watch 60 Minutes?
But you guys would have loved it. Your guy shot by an NFL Films group of freelancers working for CBS. For the ages.