Andy Rooney to End Regular Role On '60 Minutes'

[alp227]

Source: Broadcasting & Cable

Andy Rooney, who has been featured on 60 Minutes since 1978, will step down from his role on the CBS Sunday night program, the network said Tuesday. Rooney's last regular appearance on the broadcast will be Sunday.

The 92-year-old Rooney will make the announcement in his regular essay, his 1,097th for 60 Minutes, on Sunday, after a segment looking back at his career in an interview with Morley Safer.

Read more: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/474454-Andy_Rooney_to_End_Regular_Role_On_60_Minutes_.php

[TwilightGardener]

1. Andy Rooney and 60 Minutes--I thought both had died years ago. Huh.

[IamK]

3. I thought he was dead also.... oh well, guess i don't watch much...

[auntpurl]

2. 60 Minutes is still a show?

Huh.

[avaistheone1]

9. Where have you been?

60 Minutes continues to be one of the highest rated news shows since 1968.

"It has been among the top-rated TV programs for much of its life, and has garnered numerous awards over the years, including 78 Emmys (as of 2007).<1> It is considered by many to be the preeminent investigative television program in the United States.

In 2002, 60 Minutes was ranked #6 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.<2>"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Minutes

[Raschel]

4. In a society that doesn't value the elderly, I think it's great that he was on at his age!

[avaistheone1]

8. I agree and I enjoyed Rooney's commentary.

I didn't know he was 92. He did a great job.

I can't stand how our country discounts and degrades people once they are age 50+. It seems this devaluation comes from even the institutional level these days and it is disgusting and shameful.

[Honeycombe8]

15. I think I value our seniors. But I really do think he was way past his prime, and out of touch

with modern society. It was time for him to go.

He actually said (last year I think it was) how women shouldn't be sports broadcasters (no pun intended). Because women just didn't know anything about sports, and how just politically correct the stations were trying to be....blah blah blah. He was genuinely upset by that.

He was out of touch. Women DO participate in sports these days, and they DO know and enjoy and spend a lot of money on sports events. But they didn't in Rooney's generation. Which was several generations ago.

[Frank Cannon]

16. I agree. He needed to retire a long time ago.

Much as a I love the guy, his schtick was sounding less clever and more like the ramblings of Grandpa Simpson. I kept looking to see if he had an onion on his belt.

[izquierdista]

20. Seniors are valued

Except when they express their opinion on Palestine. This sign of obvious senility will get them canned immediately.

[Raschel]

21. Oh. Well, I was never really a fan of his. Just thought it was cool too see someone that age still

be on his TV gig!

[Plucketeer]

5. I still watch it, and

I'll miss Andy's ramblings. I'd like to see age 92 - if I had my wits about me as well as Rooney does. Pooh him if you think it's cool, but when he was reporting from Europe in WWII (you do know about WWII, right?), where were you?

[Hardrada]

14. I was a baby in USAAF housing in Tallahassee FL.

I have a book around here somewhere that Andy wrote. Rather amusing if I recall.

[Divine Discontent]

6. Wow. I knew the show was still on, but I thought he was off it as of last year. I didn't see him

the last time I watched it a while back. 92! Wow, good for him. He made many laugh about the strangeness of life.

http://www.zazzle.com/republicans_2012_keeping_millions_out_of_work_bumper_sticker-128002960205017719 http://www.cafepress.com/barackobama12

[BadtotheboneBob]

7. Ol' Andy was a bit too smug for me overall...

... but he was humorous and self-depreciating on occasion so I tolerated him as I would an eccentric uncle. I do salute his longevity.

[avaistheone1]

10. I don't think we are talking about the same person?!!

I think Andy Rooney stuck his nose up at smugness altogether, not at you or his audience at large.

Hell the guy was always bringing institutions and various social conventions down to earth. The man always dressed casually, spoke casually, and often his commentary was about no more than cleaning out his office, his car or his garage.

wtf

[BadtotheboneBob]

12. wtf?

wtf is I have an opinion and that is how Mr. Rooney came across to me casual dress and all... and I did compliment him, too, in my remarks.

[rhett o rick]

11. I always appreciated Mr. Rooney when I used to watch network TV. nm

[Hoosier Daddy]

13. I'm shocked

that he's still alive! :P

[No Elephants]

17. If it's any consolation, his Republican loving daughter has a couple of shows on PBS

in Boston.

She pretends to be oh so objective and professiona, but you cannot miss the bias, not only in the usual ways, but also in her tone of voice and the faces she makes.

Please don't ask me why she she has two TV shows and a radio show in Boston when so many people in Boston with a lot more audience appeal and charisma yearn for even one broadcasting job. And PBS, no less.

[alp227]

18. Emily Rooney also used to be exec producer for Peter Jennings

but was controversially fired after clashing with him. She has also accused media of liberal bias. http://cache.boston.com/globe/magazine/1998/9-6/interview/

[No Elephants]

23. Thanks for the info. Maybe her father told her about liberal media bias and she isn't sharp enough

to realize he was mistaken.

Reporting the truth now and again, as with Cronkite and the Vietnam War and various reporters portraying the ugly brutality of whites against African Americans during the civil rights struggle, gave media in general an undeserved reputation as liberal.

The facts that "Truth has a liberal bias," and that some reporters occasionally reported truth back in the day, however, does not add up to "media has a liberal bias." Rather, it adds up to conservatives hate sunlight.

And, someone needes to point out to Emily Rooney that times have changed since Papa Andy was a cub reporter--or whatever the hell he was when he was a kid (complaining that some folks take shortcuts preparing the Thanksgiving meal is not exactly journalism).

Anyhoo, in 2011, the occupation of Wall Street does not get covered while three Teabaggers on the same block is a media event.

And PBS gives a dullard like her two shows, while others on her very own panel (Beat the Press) are clearly far brighter than she.

[Township75]

19. Nothing epitomizes the good ole-boy system more than Andy Rooney.

He sucked at his job, even got suspended for anti gay comments that would have been firings for most normal people, yet he always had a job on 60 minutes.

[No Elephants]

24. +1 Never understood how whining about minutiae had anything to do with a news program anyway.

[Paladin]

22. Should Have Happened 20 Years Ago..... (n/t)