andy rooney has. many of the giants of journalism have given their papers there. >> a quote from our interview 22 years ago -- you said, writing the book you had written in 1989 was very satisfying. then he said, i would like to do it again, perhaps in a year or two. what happened? > you know what happens. that is something i have been thinking about a lot, and what keeps me from doing at, i have been asked i cannot tell you how many times to write a memoir, which i have no interest in.

just in the last year, we lost andy rooney. a few years ago we lost ed, lost mike, lost joe, a wonderful producer i worked with. john tiffin, another long-standing. these were the originals of "60 minutes." it has been a very, very rough year. couple of years. but i must say, having lost some of these stalwarts of the broadcast the broadcast itself , has not been affected. jeff sager took over from don hewitt, certainly the master of "60 minutes," died. and jeff has maintained all the ofues and pretty much all the unwritten rules of putting this broadcast on the air. brian: when i started watching you 42 years ago, you were getting 30 million people watching "60 minutes." top showre often the of the week. you are now getting 10 or 11 or still inn, and you are the top. what does that say? morley safer: there has been an extraordinary revolution. wholeternet plus the cable community has obviously fractured the audience. i think, i hear the figure of 60% being bandied about, over 60% of over the air television, network television,

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andy rooney has. many of the giants of journalism have given their papers there. >> a quote from our interview 22 years ago -- you said, writing the book you had written in 1989 was very satisfying. then he said, i would like to do it again, perhaps in a year or two. what happened? > you know what happens. that is something i have been thinking about a lot, and what keeps me from doing at, i have been asked i cannot tell you how many times to write a memoir, which i have no interest in. there are one or two subjects i would like to expand on, but i hink what people don't quite understand is the physical strain of writing a book. it's hard work. it's hard physical work. and it's very draining. there's something about a book and the permanence of a book and the hard covers of a book. -- that you really want to make it at every step of the way, the best it can possibly be. not that i phone in anything i do for television. but there's extra pressure. there's something about the permanence of book. i like

that story and andy rooney coming up. >> stephen: the great morley safer, everybody! good night!