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being persecuted within Ukraine that you could have richly documented and broadcast

to the world. The story of Maksym Tsarenko can be found multiplied many times over

the torture-murders of Ukrainian activist Volodymyr Katelnytsky and his mother in

their Kyiv apartment providing a recent example. The contrasting story of Jewish or

Russian victimization within Ukraine is bogus - and yet that is the story that you

unscrupulously chose to broadcast.

Lubomyr Prytulak

cc: Rabbi Bleich, Ed Bradley, Jeffrey Fager, Don Hewitt, Steve Kroft, Andy Rooney,

Lesley Stahl, Mike Wallace.

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Morley Safer Letter 6 20Apr99 What kind of people run 60 Minutes?

Women who worked in the "60 Minutes" offices described to Hertsgaard a sexually

charged environment that had more in common with a drunken frat party than a

professional newsroom. - Carol Lloyd

The excerpt quoted in my letter to Morley Safer below is taken from a Carol Lloyd's A

Feel For a Good Story of 17Mar98, published on the web site Mothers Who Think, whose

home page can be accessed by clicking on the link immediately above, or on the logo

immediately below:

60 Minutes Executive Producer,

Don Hewitt.

But the charges against Hewitt make Clinton's alleged behavior look

like clumsy courtship. One woman described to Hertsgaard how

Hewitt slammed her against a wall, pinned her there and forced his

tongue down her throat. - Carol Lloyd

April 20, 1999

Morley Safer

60 Minutes, CBS Television

51 W 52nd Street

New York, NY

USA 10019

Morley Safer:

I call to your attention the following excerpt from Carol Lloyd's A Feel For a Good

Story, published on the web site Mothers Who Think on 17Mar98. I will be asking you

further below whether the information provided by Carol Lloyd might help explain your

23Oct94 60 Minutes broadcast, The Ugly Face of Freedom:

The irony is that Hewitt - the creator of the TV show famous for

unveiling corruption and hypocrisy among the powerful - has been

accused of worse deeds than any of the sexual charges leveled at

Clinton.

In 1991, reporter Mark Hertsgaard, author of "On Bended Knee: The

Press and the Reagan Presidency," wrote an article for Rolling Stone

magazine in which he documented Hewitt's own serious problems with

impulse control. Women who worked in the "60 Minutes" offices

described to Hertsgaard a sexually charged environment that had more

in common with a drunken frat party than a professional newsroom.

Correspondent Mike Wallace was singled out for bottom slapping, lewd

comments and unsnapping co-workers' bras.

While today no one would hesitate to call such behavior sexual

harassment, Wallace's cheerful willingness to do it in public - even

in front of a stranger - made him seem like a good (albeit

unpleasant) old boy. But the charges against Hewitt make Clinton's

alleged behavior look like clumsy courtship. One woman described to

Hertsgaard how Hewitt slammed her against a wall, pinned her there

and forced his tongue down her throat. Hewitt vehemently denied the

story and all other allegations to Hertsgaard, while Wallace

admitted his own antics and promised they would never happen again.

Rolling Stone eventually published Hertsgaard's article in a

drastically reduced form, although Hertsgaard says Hewitt pulled all

the strings he could to get the story killed. In an interview from

his home in Takoma Park, Md., Hertsgaard spoke to Salon about the

allegations of sexual harassment at "60 Minutes" that never made it

into print - and about how the "men's club" within the media exposes

other sexually reckless men, but still protects its own.

Your story has some pretty explosive accusations against Don

Hewitt. How did you come to write the piece?

Sexual harassment was not the point of the investigation. I

literally witnessed sexual harassment on my first day of interviews

at "60 Minutes" and women began to tell me about it, so it gradually

found its way into the story. But that wasn't the point, it just was

so pervasive at the time that you couldn't miss it.

What did you witness when you were there?

The first day I was in the corridor talking with a female staffer

and I saw out of the corner of my eye Mr. Wallace coming down the

hall. He didn't know me yet because I hadn't interviewed him, so he

had no idea that it was a reporter standing there. I'm sure it

would have changed his mind. Anyway, just before he reached her she

pushed both her hands behind her bottom, like a little kid trying to

ward off a mama's spanking, and got up on her toes and leaned away.

But that didn't stop him. As he went by, he swatted her on the butt

with a rolled up magazine or newspaper or something like that.

That's no big deal, one could say, but I must say it did raise my

eyebrows. I said to her, "God, does that happen all the time?" and

she said, "Are you kidding? That is nothing." And that led to

people telling me how he'd also unsnap your bra strap or snap it for

you. So he had a reputation for that.

Then I also heard about this far-more-worrisome incident with Hewitt