Wallace is a household name in America. This name stands for hard news, investigative news, and issues that do not evade, do not give in, and are aggressive.
As a program host, he has always been the backbone of the TV industry, and his outstanding contribution cannot be measured. His death is a great loss for CBS. (Commentary by Leslie Moonway, President and CEO of CBS)
Mike wallace used to be a distant role model for China journalists. (Hong Bing, Associate Professor, School of Journalism, Fudan University)
Media evaluation
As the host of a famous news column, Wallace has excellent news vision and sense of smell. In addition to news smell, Wallace's interview is also extremely well prepared. Confrontation with the president of the United States and heads of state or focus figures is not the whole of Wallace's journalist career. Wallace is very concerned about all kinds of social problems and advocates journalists to pay attention to real social problems. Wallace is good at tracking news reports and can often be very profound when exposing social problems. Wallace wants to be a "spokesman for the public interest", but he doesn't just cater to the public's tastes. The serious news program "60 minutes" even deviated from fashion. For a while, Wallace interviewed many underworld brothers. Because of their powerful stories, they are very popular with the audience, but Wallace doesn't appreciate the market. He thinks that people who are too dramatic may entertain interviews and dispel seriousness, so they reduce such interviews. (Tencent Online Review)
For anyone who hides dirty secrets, there are four English words that can make them a tourist trap-'(Mike Valassi). Wallace's interview style perfectly combines gentle and friendly tone with questioning words. He is good at changing the subject suddenly in the process of chatting, which makes the interviewee unprepared and reveals the news with selling points in panic. (Washington Post Review)