CBS has announced that Andy Rooney will stop doing his weekly segments on 60 Minutes. Rooney will do his last regular appearance on this week’s episode.
TVNewser has more: “Rooney, who began his whimsical end-of-show pieces in 1978, was MIA from last week’s 44th-season premiere. Rooney turns 93 in January. He moves slowly, and his hearing and sight are not what they used to be.”
Known for being a curmudgeon, Rooney has a knack for criticizing modern technologies. Last season, he did a segment criticizing eBooks. eBookNewser has more: “‘I want my words in books,’ he said, meaning print books. Rooney said that he loves keeping his books behind him, so that he can reach out and touch them. ‘I can’t imagine not being able to open my books and leaf through them,’ he said.”
Rooney, who began his career as a reporter for Stars and Stripes, is also the author of 16 books including 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit which was published by PublicAffairs in 2009.