Jeff Fager, the 60 Minutes EP, is charged with managing an “All-Star baseball team,” Jacques Steinberg writes this morning. “And as on a baseball team, where players fight for at-bats, the deepening of the ’60 Minutes’ bench has set off a pre-emptive scramble for air time among some of the best-known journalists on television — in a finite universe in which there are only so many news reports that can be assigned.” This is a great portrait of ego-balancing…
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