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Mike Wallace: When TV and Journalism Got Married

Bill O'Reilly: No, it’s not. You’re a dinosaur. You have to engage now! You have to be provocative. This is going to embarrass you, Wallace. You’re the driving force behind my career. They say I'm the most-feared interviewer since Mike Wallace.

Wallace's "gotcha" tactics were dramatic, and his charisma made for entertaining television. But as Belkin's film depicts, what Wallace was after was the truth. He wanted to hold public figures to account, to shine a light on their misdeeds. Often, he did just that; his reporting changed the public discourse around Malcolm X, the Watergate scandal, Vladimir Putin, and Big Tobacco, to name a few. He asked the tough questions and got the tough answers. The problem? The medium was the message. While the blurred lines between journalism, television, opinion, and documentary can be traced back to Wallace, he didn't espouse them. He simply set the stage.

No Film School sat down with Belkin to discuss the changing landscape of broadcast journalism, and how documentaries are filling the void.

"Mike Wallace changed the game. He was the revolution of television."

No Film School: When did you start making this film? With so much archiva

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"60 Minutes" legend Mike Wallaceleft behind an impressive $21 million fortune to his fourth wife when he died in April at the age of 93. But Wallace's wife, to whom he had been married for the last 25 years of his life, died earlier this month before his will was submitted in court. That means the majority of his estate will now be divvied up in trusts between their four adult children, including Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, and their children. All of Wallace's "notes, scripts, files, journals, logs, manuscripts, video tapes, movies, photographs, honors, diplomas, awards and all intellectual property rights relating to my professional career" were left to his alma mater, the University of Michigan.
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