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60 Minutes
1968 · TV series · 44 min episodes · 59 seasons
Created by Don Hewitt
America's popular television News magazine in which an ever changing team of CBS News correspondents contribute segments ranging from hard news coverage to politics to lifestyle and pop culture.
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No tin-foil hat needed. There is published research documenting that this is happening [0] on certain topics and there is a lot of reason to believe it is happening in others. Yes, I'm not saying China is the only source of the state of our domestic discontent; but it's fuel to the fire and will be used against us at times in the future when we need national cohesion. See also [1] a 60 minutes episode on a related thread of China infiltrating the US in other ways.
[0] https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/NCRI-Report_-The-CCPs-Digital-Charm-Offensive.pdf
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43vxbytjDSM&themeRefresh=1
That was Global News, you can read about it here:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/cbs-news-says-global-mistakenly-posted-60-minutes-segment-issues-takedown-order/
If by 'ran the original episode' you mean on TV: no, they didn't, but they did put it on their 'app'.
Considering how much Trump is screwing with Canada, maybe it was someone's small act of revenge.
It is a total propaganda both ways and if you don’t see that, you’re not looking clearly. Of course it’s absolutely unacceptable to be sending nonviolent illegal immigrants to a terrorist detention center. But then you watch the episode and of course 60 minutes decides to spoil it and not do real reporting by having an immigration lawyer say they are all nonviolent criminals, which is obviously also total bullshit
I think the weapon is tested and understood.
The value is in disruption. Headaches are not just headaches, but also intimidation and harassment. When there is a person working a case important to a state actor, if that person is delayed a week due to a health problem, that case is delayed a week. If they develop permanent health issues and have to leave, the case starts from zero with a new investigator.
The technology is unprecedented and doesn't provoke retaliation because the US either can't prove it happened or won't declassify documents to show the technology exists. All the other, more conventional methods can be easily traced and retaliated
The agent that was allegedly targetted has a similar opinion to this. This is the 60 minutes episode where they talk about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COWTBEl1rRc&pp=ygURNjAgbWludXRlcyBoYXZhbmE%3D
Small depositors (under US$250K) can get paid off quickly if the FDIC takes over, but larger ones may have to wait until SVB's loans are sold off to other banks for cash.
The collapse of a solvent but illiquid bank is well worked out in the US. Here's a 60 Minutes episode where they got to cover the process.[1] It's not too bad for the customers, but it is really bad for bank management. The 60 minutes video shows the moment when the FDIC people show up and tell the CEO he's finished.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAE8i40A5uI
The 60 Minutes episode that aired recently where they traveled to the hot spots in Africa is fascinating. We know about the inevitable. It is up to us humans what we do with this information. Case in point: COVID mask hostility in spite of caring for the health of fellow humans or getting it and denying it until it kills them (source: nurse friend on a cardiac ward in the Midwest). YMMV.
Apparently many of the channel's uploads are from the 'ABC News Archives',[0] so they might not be entirely lost. Maybe prod IA to see if its tv news project can ingest it officially, or already have.
BTW a quick scrape (raw HTML, missing any JS-loaded stuff) of archived btm0815ma channel pages[1] finds some more videos that were saved "naturally" in the wayback machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/*/wayback-fakeurl.archive.org/yt/<ID>
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0 https://twitter.com/shabanianaram/status/1490172899868565505
1 https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=youtube.com/channel/UCVTQ7Jdm8_6L3RxH3_EAGMQ%2A
That's quite an interesting documentary on HCI, including maths pedagogy with turtle robot graphics from the Logo Project at MIT. There's no trace of the series elsewhere on the web...
“The computer symbolizes both the promise and problems we face in our complex, man-machine world. Its misuse by large institutions irritates us. Its misuse by government could threaten us. But its potential for extending our ability to communicate and our knowledge of ourselves is enormous. If it is made relatively easy for anyone to use, the chances are far greater that it will be used on the side of man.
“No longer can we ask, ‘What can we do?’ But rather, ‘How can what we do give us a better world?’ In future programs in this series, we'll look into research that just might point to solutions for our cities, our healthcare, and our education. We'll discover that there is hope, but there are no quick, easy answers to the question we ask: What about tomorrow? This is Jules Bergman.”
Mickey. Mickey Rooney. Who when he was younger did a lot of movies as a character named "Andy Hardy."
Andy Rooney "played" a curmudgeon on 60 Minutes.
And if you read it you would see that some of these controversies spanned multiple episodes, rendering your calculation moot.
This isn't a pissing contest. I believe 60 Minutes is of low journalistic/information quality (low value content/investigation, controversies in recent years, only some corrections, partial retractions, removal of content without issuing a correction/reason). It sounds like you have a different opinion - seemingly that an unknown number of episodes (14 or greater) over the course of over 2300 episodes and their actions/inactions related to them does not tarnish their reputation. And that's fine.
According to the same 60 Minutes Wikipedia article linked to at the start of this comment chain, there have been 2,325 episodes of 60 Minutes that have aired.
14 is only 0.6% of 2,325, so (assuming each controversy stems from one episode) less than 1% of their episodes have generated controversy.
Edit: That said, also according to the linked Wiki article, there have been only 13 aired controversies (the last one is an internal issue). The updated percentage is 0.56%.
> it's getting more and more difficult to search for on YouTube
Just to be clear, since this sounds conspiratorial - it is most likely difficult to search because 60 minutes is a copyrighted show and they have an official YT channel but only carries segments of their episodes. So, I suspect it is quite difficult to find any full episode.
I recall a 60 Minutes episode where someone was making batteries using dirt and seawater. The batteries were big and heavy, entirely unsuitable for a car. But for grid storage, big and heavy means nothing.
In 1971, 60 Minutes, the most watched TV show in the country won an Emmy for it's story on "What Really Happened at Tonkin Gulf?". The truth was out pretty early, and well accepted.
> For example, about 20 million people tuned in to watch the first episode of the latest season of hit show Game of Thrones.
> It was one of the most-watched non-sporting events in TV history.
This is not even close to true.
Nearly 17 million people watched the Murder She Wrote finale in 1996. In the 1970s, each year, the highest rated episodes of All In The Family were consistently over 20 million. Seinfeld had 35 million once. 60 minutes has gone over 20 million many times.
Grace Under Fire, a mediocre sitcom most people here have never heard of, averaged about 20 million viewers for a full season in the mid 1990s.
I love when TV writers act like TV didn’t exist before The Sopranos.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_watched_television_broadcasts_in_the_United_States
There was a 60 Minutes episode with Fatal1ty that I saw when I was in high school and it showed him playing sports and exercising to make sure his reactions were sharp. I was competing in Counter Strike when I saw this and started regularly running and doing my best to eat healthy based off that episode. It definitely helped I think, we got pretty far along the CAL ladder during those days. It's cool to see these teams taking physical fitness even more seriously, I think it will have positive reflections on E-Sports in the long run.
How It's Made, Nova, and Nature. To a (slightly) lesser extent, 60 Minutes and Frontline.
The term documentary covers (imho) a continuum, from academic style nonfiction on one end to a gray area between infotainment and fiction on the other.
There was a 60 minutes episode interviewing 6 SAMs[1]. They're tested with random historical events happening back a few decades, some fairly mundane such as weather patterns -
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"Let's move back in time now to 1990. It rained on several days in January and February, can you name the dates on which it rained?" McGaugh asked.
Believe it or not, she could.
"Let's see. It was slightly rainy and cloudy on January 14th, 15th. It was very hot the weekend of the 27th, 28th, no rain," she replied.
We checked the official weather records and she was right.
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1. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-gift-of-endless-memory/
Replying to myself because I can no longer edit my post to include the image[1]. The image comes from a fortuitously timed "60 Minutes" episode[2] that discusses a lynching memorial that's opening soon. In Alabama.
1. https://cbsnews3.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2018/04/08/7bd07dde-775e-4cc2-a412-7c93a7bd24a2/resize/770x/966650c92d187ab85d9da3ce0fd6db49/ot-lynchingphotosi.jpg
2. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/inside-the-memorial-to-victims-of-lynching-60-minutes-oprah-winfrey/
You must watch the recent 60 minutes episode featuring a former head of the DEA blowing the whistle on Republican legislatures stonewalling investigation and conviction of opioid distributors..
A recent 60 Minutes episode focused on employees in IT that were replaced H1-B Visa contractors. What the reporter failed to notice, or mention, is that every terminated employee was over 50 (my estimate based on appearance).
The well known bettors will place bets knowing others will emulate it, moving the odds in favor of their real bet they have yet to place. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the big Vegas books are in on it since they make their money long term on vig, and don't have to worry about short term losses (thus enjoying any increase in bets those schemes generate).
There is an older 60 minutes episode on Billy Walters that is a good watch for anyone interested in people trying to beat sports books.
It isn't just that they are stuffing more ads in. I have noticed a huge spike in what I call "program guide fraud" - networks indicating in the program guide information they provide to cable systems that an episode of a show is new, when it is in fact a rerun. This causes any DVR programmed to record only new episodes of a show to record the rerun, which fraudulently inflates DVR views, which leads to increased ad rates and ratings.
Some shows have taken a slightly less fraudulent, though equally frustrating, approach. 60 Minutes remixes old segments into "new" shows, but the only thing new about them is the order in which the segments appear, along with a total of maybe a minute in added commentary or updates on the segments. Whenever you hear "as we first reported..." at the beginning of a segment, that's a remixed segment. Nightline has also been remixing old segments into most of their "new" shows over the summer.
TV is dying, and the networks are turning to fraud and annoyance to try to save themselves. I can't imagine that it will work.
Journalism is one of those areas where the net has been a two edged sword.
Here's how it worked a long time ago. We had three main ways we would get news (aside from person to person). There was television. There was radio. And there were newspapers and news magazines.
On television, there would be a morning news program, an evening news program, and a late night news program. The evening news was the most important. Watching this would often be an important part of a family's daily schedule. Eat dinner and then watch the news. Or watch the news and then serve dinner. Or watch the news while eating dinner.
There were also weekly news magazines on television, such as "60 Minutes", that would cover only 2 or 3 stories a week (sometimes only 1) but go into it in much more depth than the regular evening news could.
Back in those days, radio was one of our major sources of music. Every hour they would break for a few minutes of news. So if something important happened throughout the day, people would find out about it without having to wait for the evening news on TV.
For more in depth coverage of major stories, and for coverage of a broader range of stories than we got from TV or radio there was the newspapers and the news magazines. Every city but the smallest had at least one daily newspaper. Some cities had two or even more.
A very large fraction of the population subscribed to a newspaper. Many papers published both a morning edition and an evening edition, so you could choose which you wanted. Some only offered one, but another paper offered the other. Whichever you had, it would be a fixed part of your daily ritual.
I liked morning editions. That way I could stumble out of bed, groggily go retrieve my paper from in front of my door, somehow make my way to the bathroom, and then while sitting on the john look at the front page. If nothing was there that shocked me out of my lingering slumber, I'd turn to the comics pages and read them. I might have another go at the front page over breakfast.
Then in the evening there would be some reasonably fixed time when I'd sit down and read the news, the few sports results I might care about, and the non-news material like movie reviews, fluff pieces, and maybe have a go at the crossword puzzle.
This was typical. Most of us had some kind of habit that involved in us spending quality time with our newspaper every day.
Many also subscribed to a weekly news magazine, such as Time, Newsweek, or US News and World Reports. Reading this was often one of our comforting ritual events. These magazines were not as timely as our newspapers, but could go into a lot more detail.
The key here is that a large fraction of the population had integrated ingesting news into their lives in a habitual, ritualistic way, and in a way that minimized distractions from other sources. Kids knew not to disturb Dad when he's reading his Sunday paper, or to keep the noise down when Walter Cronkite is on.
Comparing my recollection of those days to what I see now in others, and to how well I feel I am personally informed on the current events of our times, the impression I get as that we were better informed back then.
We have many more sources of news now, but we find stories from aggregators like Google News, or from link sharing sites like here and Reddit, or from what we see on Facebook and Twitter. The serious news by dedicated journalists we find through such means is mixed with links to poorly researched blogs and to sites that hide opinion as news.
When we do find ourselves reading good solid news, it is not part of some time we've set aside for getting the news. It is something we came across while entertaining ourselves, and we'll easily be distracted away in a few minutes.
When I first got my Kindle, I tried trial subscriptions to the Kindle editions of the Seattle Times, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and I set aside "news time" each day to read them. I noticed an interesting thing. In discussion forums I participated in, I generally felt that the other participants and I were about equally well informed on the current events issues that came up in the forums. However, once I started reading newspapers, and reading them regularly, it seemed obvious that I was better informed than my forum mates.
I let the trials expire, because there were enough features missing from all three papers (no comics, no crosswords, no pictures) that it just did not seem that the time was right for newspapers on Kindle at the price they wanted. I noticed that I quickly reverted to feeling like my forum mates knew as much as I did.
I'm not saying we should dump internet as a source of news. Just that being well informed might require more than treating solid high quality news as something that can be sprinkled in among our cat videos and clever tweets to be stumbled upon as we flitter our limited attention spans from one thing to another.
This documentary is really good. It's impossible not to gawk like a tourist at the pathological outcomes of the command econconmy, the wretched poverty, and the Orwellian anti U.S. propaganda, for example posters depicting U.S. soldiers pulling out the teeth of children with pliers, and executing Korean civilians. The film is composed largely of real footage produced by dissenters. No matter how cynical you might be of the demonization of "rouge states" by U.S. media, I promise that you will moved by this very convincing film.
I think Frontline is one of the last investigative journalism shows with real integrity that is left; did you see that embarrassing puff piece a few weeks ago where 60 Minutes licked the NSA's asshole for an hour?
The big footage of the Korean landscape is stunningly beautiful, and reminds me of Vladivastock. Must watch.
Also, if you want to learn more about North Korea (at least from a quasi-American perspective), please go watch "Crossing the Line" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Line_%282006_film%29) a film about a U.S. Army soldier who defected to N. Korea, which was still on Netfilx last time I checked. It will enlighten you, and also weird up your day :)
While I fully agree with your point -- This response rubs me the wrong way too -- when it comes to cars bad PR can be way more damaging than with phones.
Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Minutes#Unintended_acceleration (referenced by someone higher up in the thread). One TV show with a car that had been tampered with caused a massive amount of lost sales for Audi, to the point where they considered pulling out of the US market entirely. Sales didn't bounce back for a full 15 years.
I can definitely see why someone in the auto industry would be extremely touchy about things they think were written by journalists in bad faith.
Find the 60 minutes episode on computer recycling, it's pretty horrifying.
This was a really great episode of 60 Minutes - also see the in-depth story on face blindness; it's an excellent demonstration of a mysterious capacity of (most) people's ability to recognize faces.
BTW - 60 Minutes should be retitled "40 Minutes" - from the time codes on my DVR I find that the Musk story was 15 minutes, and the face blindness story was 25 minutes. Is it any wonder people would rather consume video online (rather than watch 20 minutes of Cialis ads).
Not to mention that once you've seen one 60 Minutes episode, you've seen them all. It's a legendary formula, but tired as hell.
That episode of 60 Minutes was fantastic, and the audio from Walter's interviews with Jobs was surprising. The best part of the program was the fact that Steve Jobs actually met his biological father years before knowing who his biological father truly was.
They definitely were, once upon a time. 60 Minutes has lost its edge over time; I'd say they never really recovered from the episode with Brown and Williamson (dramatized in the movie "The Insider"). I don't know when 20/20 disintegrated, but when I see it now, I can barely distinguish it from Dateline NBC, which is little more than a new cartoon for children.