Wallace’s Interview #1 On Air & Online

For six straight days, Mike Wallace‘s interview of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the #1 topic on CBSNews.com.

“The interview was announced and then previewed for the first time on the website last Wednesday and has received the most ‘hits’ ever since,” CBS News says. On day seven, the story has dropped to third place on the “most popular” list, but the video is still #1.

The interview also made 60 Minutes the highest-rated program in primetime Sunday, the Hollywood Reporter notes. “It averaged 9.2 million viewers and a 1.7/6 to make it the most-watched show, yet about average in the demo.”

> Also: Wallace’s interview “generated the most feedback from e-mails and phone-calls for a 60 Minutes segment in two years,” CBS notes. Update: 2:15pm: “Did CBS note how much of the record feedback was positive or negative?” No…

> Update: 2:17pm: Public Eye has the must-read backstory to the interivew…

> Update: 2:20pm: Bernie Goldberg came away from the interview “thinking that Mr. Ahmadinejad understands us a lot better than we understand him.”