How It's Used

"His [Don Hewitt's] cultural legacy may be more mixed, but it’s easy to oversimplify when looking across 40 or more years. Chains of influence aren’t direct: '60 Minutes' had been on for 10 years before '20/20' was born, 13 years before 'Entertainment Tonight' came along and 30 years before what we now think of as reality television took off."

—Mike Hale, "The Man Who Kept '60 Minutes' Ticking," The New York Times, August 19, 2009.

Links

Related on eAlmanac
20/20 Vision

Beyond eAlmanac
Wikipedia article on the 20/20 News Program
20/20 official Web site