Pitts to "60 Minutes"
Byron Pitts has just joined the most exclusive club in TV journalism - he was named a contributing correspondent for "60 Minutes." A big deal? Yes, a big deal: "60" has been rather starkly white in recent years, and certainly since Ed Bradley's death in '06, so the show is addressing a pretty amazing iniquity (and particularly amazing considering this IS TV's premiere news magazine, by a large margin.)
Pitts? He's a solid guy - has done very good work on what seems like every story under the sun for CBS, and many of those have appeared on "Evening News" and "60," for which he contributed some memorable pieces on Katrina. He's not a jump-off-the-screen type of personality - he eschews "dramatics," you might say, which is what you probably want in a "60" contributing correspondent. His interview with NO mayor Ray Nagin, elicited this famous line - when pressed about the city clean-up effort, hizzoner said, “That’s alright. You guys in New York City can’t get a hole in the ground fixed and it’s five years later. So let’s be fair." He apologized...
This gig - BTE - can and likely will lead to a full-fledged correspondent role.
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