MIKE WALLACE IDENTITY

MIKE WALLACE AND WHO HE WAS


The journalist Mike Wallace passed away yesterday.  A very accomplished man.  If critics are concerned about a journalist asking a candidate for high office "what newspapers do you read?", they sure would have had conniptions about his direct and hard-hitting questions of so many prominent people.  

My comment is about media reports on his background:  "son of Russian immigrants" mentioned a few.  No, he was not.  He was the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia.  Very big difference.  His Jewish heritage should be given credit -- not his family's place of origin (could have been any place -- it was his family and upbringing that made him what he was).   

I wrote about this in a long-ago post,  regrettably, on a difficult individual.  Also, much earlier, I wrote "Did Your Baba Come from Austria?"  The essence of my point remains.  It's not where you are born, but to whom.