A former TV producer is spilling secrets about America's most famous news anchors in an explosive new memoir.
Ira Rosen, who has worked at 60 Minutes and 20/20 over the span of four decades, makes several scathing assessments in his tome Ticking Clock, set for release on February 16.
Rosen brands Diane Sawyer as 'two-faced', Katie Couric as 'lazy' and 'Chris Cuomo as 'entitled' in excerpts of the book obtained by The New York Post.
The Emmy Award winning producer also reveals a secret rivalry between Sawyer and her female co-anchor Barbara Walters, as well as a bitter yearlong feud between father and son newsmen Mike and Chris Wallace.
Rosen began his career in the TV news business back in 1980 when he landed a job at 60 Minutes.
There, he began a fractious long-term professional partnership with co-anchor Mike Wallace.
Wallace was regarded as one of the top TV journalists in the world, but Rosen claims that the anchor 'seemed to define his life by how much trouble he could cause'.
According to The Post, Wallace 'was notorious for his 'Neanderthal behavior' toward women, snapping their bra straps and slapping their bottoms.'
Rosen writes that one female produced even smacked Wallace across the face after an alleged advance.
Meanwhile, Wallace reportedly relished picking fights with his co-workers, regularly stealing stories from fellow anchors Ed Bradley and Morley Safer.
'Months would go by in which Safer would not speak to Wallace, even though their offices were next door to each other,' Rosen writes.
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