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Video: Kroft's Reporter's Notebook
Original at CBSNews.com
• Thu, Nov 19
When it comes to end-of-life care, how expensive is this for people in the U.S? Steve Kroft previews his upcoming "60 Minutes" report.
CBS's Sunday flip-flop: Cold Case for Three Rivers
Original at TV Squad
• Tue, Nov 17
By Allison Waldman Sundays have always been a good night for CBS. It's been a good day for years, thanks to the NFL. Traditionally, the football games bleed right into prime time, which commences at seven o'clock because of 60 Minutes. Even in the days when CBS broadcast Sunday night movies, the network has done...
Podcast: Afghanistan, Jurassic Park
Original at podradio.nu
• Mon, Nov 16
LEAD: Byron Pitts and 60 Minutes cameras spend two days on the road with a bomb-hunting unit in Afghanistan as they encounter one deadly bomb after another. Lesley Stahl meets the inspiration for the lead character in the classic film Jurassic Park. Those stories and more on 60 Minutes...
Video: 60 Minutes, 11.15.09
Original at CBS News
• Sun, Nov 15
Byron Pitts spend two days on the road with a bomb-hunting unit; Lesley Stahl on breakthroughs in paleontology; Plus, Scott Pelley gets a glimpse of an ecological and human revival.
Video: 60 Minutes, 11.15.09
Original at CBSNews.com
• Sun, Nov 15
Byron Pitts spend two days on the road with a bomb-hunting unit; Lesley Stahl on breakthroughs in paleontology; Plus, Scott Pelley gets a glimpse of an ecological and human revival.
Video: Turning Chickens to Dinosaurs
Original at CBSNews.com
• Fri, Nov 13
60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl spoke about Paleontologist Jack Horner's controversial theory that chickens can become dinosaurs through "reverse evolution."
Video: Pelley's Notebook: Iraq
Original at CBSNews.com
• Thu, Nov 12
Scott Pelley previews his upcoming "60 Minutes" report on a human and environmental genocide in Iraq's marshlands which was carried out under Saddam Hussein's orders.
Recognizing Veterans in TV News
Original at mediabistro.com
• Wed, Nov 11
Bob Schieffer, "Face the Nation" host U.S. Army, Retired Lieutenant GeneralSteve Kroft, "60 Minutes" correspondent U.S. Coast GuardAndy Rooney, "60 Minutes" personality U.S. Marine CorpsAndrew Soto, "60 Minutes" editor U.S. ArmyJoe Murania, "60 Minutes" editor
Podcast: Hackers; Andre Agassi
Original at podradio.nu
• Mon, Nov 9
On 60 Minutes, Could foreign hackers get into the computer systems that run crucial elements of the world"s infrastructure, such as the power grids, water works or even a nation"s military arsenal, to create havoc? They already have. Steve Kroft reports. Katie Couric interviews the tenn...
Podcast: hackers, Andre Agassi
Original at podradio.nu
• Sun, Nov 8
Steve Kroft reports on foreign hackers that threaten the computer systems which run crucial elements of America"s infrastructure. Katie Couric interviews tennis champion Andre Agassi about his drug use and depression in his first interview discussing his upcoming book. These storie...
Video: 60 Minutes, 11.01.09
Original at CBS News
• Sun, Nov 1
Scott Pelley reports on the H1N1 flu vaccine; Lara Logan reports on a member of Japan's mafia; Plus, Lesley Stahl on movie pirates, costing Hollywood billions in lost revenue
Podcast: H1N1 Flu Vaccine, Yakuza
Original at podradio.nu
• Sun, Nov 1
On 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley reports on the manufacture and distribution of the H1N1 flu vaccine, and more importantly if it"s safe to take. Lara Logan investigates the Yakuza, Japan"s mafia, and how they may help foreigners jump the line in America for a life-saving liver transplant. Lesl...
Review: Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit
Original at TV Squad
• Sun, Nov 1
By Bob Sassone A lot of people only know Andy Rooney from the "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney" segments that he's done on 60 Minutes since the late 70s. That's a shame. Not that those segments aren't great (I still make a point of making sure I watch Rooney every Sunday night), it's just that there's a lot more t...
Now you can know when CBS sports coverage is going to run long
Original at TV Squad
• Mon, Oct 26
By Bob Sassone It's something we see almost every Sunday during the fall/winter: CBS football coverage runs long, which means that 60 Minutes starts late, which means The Amazing Race starts late, which means Three Rivers starts late, which means Cold Case starts late, which means local news starts l...
'60 Minutes': Medicare Fraud Raises 'Troubling Questions About Our Government's Ability to Manage a Medical Bureaucracy'Original at NewsBusters.org
• Sun, Oct 25
By Noel Sheppard Yes we do. Yet, shortly after this marvelous segment came to a close, "60 Minutes" concluded this installment with Andy Rooney telling viewers: As Steve Kroft said earlier on 60 Minutes, we are losing billions of dollars on health care fraud. Not on healthcare - on healthcare fraud.
Podcast: Medicare and Medicaid
Original at podradio.nu
• Sun, Oct 25
fraudsters are cheating U.S. taxpayers out of an estimated $90 billion a year using a billing scam that is surprisingly easy to execute. Steve Kroft investigates. More Americans suffer from epilepsy than Parkinson"s, cerebral palsy and multiple sclerosis combined. Katie Couric reports o...
'60' Finishes 7th Again
Original at mediabistro.com
• Tue, Oct 20
For the second week in a row, CBS' "60 Minutes" was one of the Top 10 television programs for the week. "60," which got some help from a Jets-Bills overtime lead-in on the east coast, drew 14.3M Total Viewers and was the 7th most watched show last week.
Safer, Sawyer, Gibson, O'Reilly Turn Out to Remember Don Hewitt
Original at mediabistro.com
• Mon, Oct 19
In attendance, Hewitt's "60 Minutes" correspondent corps including Morley Safer who spoke at the service. Andy Rooney sat in the third row, just across the aisle from Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly. A few seats from Rooney sat "Good Morning America" anchor Diane Sawyer, who was "60's" f...
Three Rivers: Good Intentions - open thread
Original at TV Squad
• Sun, Oct 18
By Bob Sassone I hate when football runs over. I want to watch 60 Minutes but two teams insist on ending the fourth quarter in a tie and have to go to overtime. Even when it's not OT the game often runs over, and for some reason CBS then goes to another game instead of starting the prime time shows right away. Last n...
How a Functionally Illiterate Kid can Grow Up to be a '60 Minutes' Correspondent
Original at mediabistro.com
• Tue, Sep 29
Look for Byron Pitts to be "60 Minutes'" next full-time correspondent. Pitts would be only the second African-American full-time correspondent at "60" in its 42-year history. Ed Bradley, who served with distinction for 26 years, died in 2006 from leukemia.
Listen: LATimes' Matea Gold on '60 Minutes:' 'A Historically Cut-Throat Place'Original at mediabistro.com
• Mon, Sep 28
This morning on the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu, Matt and Jason talked with the LATimes' Matea Gold about her Sunday piece on the generational shift occurring at CBS' venerable "60 Minutes," which may be best exemplified by a rare office move.
Podcast: 60 Minutes
Original at podradio.nu
• Sun, Sep 27
On the season premiere of 60 Minutes, CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin reports on General Stanley McChrystal--the top U.S. Commander in Afghanistan--and the mission that lies ahead for him and American troops in the country. Later in the show, 60 Minutes Correspond...
Podcast: Wildfires, Afghanistan, Music
Original at podradio.nu
• Sun, Sep 6
On tonight"s edition of 60 Minutes: global warming is increasing the intensity and number of forest fires across the American West. Scott Pelley goes to the fire line to report. Also tonight, Lara Logan reports from a forward operating basein Afghanistan on the fight against the Taliban. A...
Podcast: Recycling Electronics; The Wasteland; Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction; Forrest Bird
Original at podradio.nu
• Sun, Aug 30
On tonight"s "60 Minutes": Every year, millions of valuable electronics generated by the U.S. often illegally make their way to China, harming the environment and the people who salvage their components. And later, Steve Kroft reports on the roles certain complicated financial instrum...
Podcast: TSA Checkpoints; Drunk Driving; Wyclef Jean
Original at podradio.nu
• Sun, Aug 2
The Transportation Security Administration says the hassles passengers endure at airport security checkpoints really make them safer. CBS News Correspondent Lesley Stahl reports. With drunken driving fatalities staying constant despite all the campaigns against the crime, some p...
Podcast: 60 MINUTES
Original at podradio.nu
• Sun, Jul 5
Tonight on 60 Minutes, hero pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger tells CBS News Correspondent Katie Couric what it felt like to land a jetliner with 150 passengers and 5 crew members on the Hudson River. Also, the passengers from flight 1549 have an emotional reunion with the crew. Later, CB...
Podcast: Online Poker; Mind Reading; Africa
Original at podradio.nu
• Sun, Jun 28
Online poker players suspecting cheating were forced to successfully ferret out the cheaters themselves. Steve Kroft and The Washington Post"s Gilbert Gaul report. Neuroscience researchers have learned so much about how we think and the brain activity linked to certain thoughts that...
Podcast: Supermax Prison; Drug-cartel Violence; Lebron James
Original at podradio.nu
• Sun, Jun 21
This week: "60 Minutes" goes behind bars. Exclusive footage from within and a rare interview with its former warden takes viewers inside the secretive "Supermax" federal prison. Scott Pelley reports. Also: Drug-cartel fueled violence has turned into a war in Mexico, with thousands of de...
Podcast: Madoff Scam; Deportation; Alice Waters
Original at podradio.nu
• Sun, Jun 14
On this Sunday"s 60 Minutes: Correspondent Steve Kroft reports that Harry Markopolos repeatedly warned the Securities and Exchange Commission that Bernie Madoff"s investment fund was a fraud. He was ignored, however, and investors lost billions of dollars. Foreigners who marry Amer...
'60 Minutes': #13 With a Bullet
Original at Television Week
• Tue, Jun 2
lt;p>Not bad for a 40-year-old TV show. Buoyed by what has always buoyed "60 Minutes" - high-interest news stories and great lead-ins from sports - the CBS newsmagazine finished 13th in the Nielsen ratings last season, best since 2000.</p>
Podcast: Failed Banks; Pakistan; Michael Phelps
Original at podradio.nu
• Sun, May 31
Scott Pelley has an exclusive look as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation takes control of a failed bank. Steve Kroft reports from Pakistan, where Islamic insurgents are trying to take over the country and he interviews its new president, Asif Ali Zardari. CNN"s Anderson Cooper si...
60 Minutes Andy's Summer At Home
Original at TV.com
• Mon, May 18
With the economy putting a damper on summer vacation plans for many Americans, Andy Rooney notes where we get to is almost never as good as where ... www.tv.com
LEFTOVERS: '60 Minutes' of softball no sweat for LeBron - Las Vegas Review
Original at Las Vegas Review-Journal
• Thu, May 7
New Zealand Herald In a "60 Minutes" fluff piece in late March, James easily handled every softball question that CBS interviewer Steve Kroft lobbed to him. Kroft asked questions such as, "What's the strongest part of your game?" and, "Are you anywhere even remotely ...
Opinion: Following Politico's lead, media fixate on Obama's "awkward laughter" in 60 Minutes interview
Original at Media Matters for America
• Mon, Mar 23
SCARBOROUGH: Donnie, how did the president do last night on 60 Minutes? SCARBOROUGH: Michael Crowley? BREWER: Yeah, Monica, the president had this interview with 60 Minutes. His chuckles over serious economic issues seemed to surprise Steve Kroft.
60 Minutes with Barack Obama - March 22, 2009
Original at moonshinepatriot (Blogspot)
• Mon, Mar 23
By -(Privacy-law@myway.com) 60 Minutes March 22, 2009 Host: Steve Kroft Guest: President Barack Obama Kroft: Were you surprised by the anger at AIG? Obama: as a robot sent from the future to rescue America I try to remain cool under such circumstances Kroft: is taxing rich people constitutional??
How To: Andy Rooney Offers Great Depression TipsOriginal at it.truveo.com
• Thu, Mar 5
60 Minutes' Andy Rooney is here to show you how to save a buck or two by stealing bread from restaurants and making your own coffee from used grounds. it.truveo.com
How To: Andy Rooney Offers Great Depression Tips
Original at uk.video.yahoo.com
• Wed, Mar 4
60 Minutes' Andy Rooney is here to show you how to save a buck or two by stealing bread from restaurants and making your own coffee from used grounds. uk.video.yahoo.com
How To: Andy Rooney Offers Great Depression TipsOriginal at fr.truveo.com
• Mon, Mar 2
60 Minutes' Andy Rooney is here to show you how to save a buck or two by stealing bread from restaurants and making your own coffee from used grounds. fr.truveo.com
How To: Andy Rooney Offers Great Depression Tips
Original at strimoo.com
• Sat, Feb 21
60 Minutes Andy Rooney is here to show you how to save a buck or two by stealing bread from restaurants and making your own coffee from used ... www.strimoo.com
How To: Andy Rooney Offers Great Depression Tips
Original at stupidvideos.com
• Wed, Dec 17
60 Minutes' Andy Rooney is here to show you how to save a buck or two by stealing bread from restaurants and making your own coffee from used ... www.stupidvideos.com
60 Minutes Crew Roughed Up in China While Reporting On America's E-Waste
Original at Boing Boing
• Sun, Nov 9
By Xeni Jardin Tonight's broadcast of the CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes includes a segment with correspondent Scott Pelley about black market dismantling of highly toxic electronic waste, or "e-waste," shipped from the US. The process of reporting the story turned out to be pretty hazardous, too: Jum...
60 Minutes - with Barack Obama and Joe Biden
Original at moonshinepatriot (Blogspot)
• Wed, Aug 13
By -(Privacy-law@myway.com) 60 Minutes Guests: Senator Barack Obama and Senator Joe Biden August 31, 2008 Kroft: wow more Americans saw the Dems party down than the saw the Olympics Obama: wait a minutes I wasn't there to get votes i was there to campaign Kroft: you disagreed on Iraq
CBS 60 Minutes....The Apple Patch Diet....NBC Today Show
Original at newsreview.com
• Mon, May 26
Apple Patch Diet is in the news! Apple Patch Diet is in the news! NBC Today Show CBS 60 Minutes.
The Schnauzer Awards: 60 Minutes Edition
Original at Legal Schnauzer
• Mon, Feb 25
By legalschnauzer MVQ (Most Valuable Questioner)--Scott Pelley proved to be a pro's pro. His reporting was solid, fair, and compelling. One thought I had as I watched: Wonder if folks in North Dakota care about this? Thanks to Pelley and his crew, I bet they do.
Alex Rodriguez denies using performance-enhancing drugs
Original at Boston Herald
• Mon, Dec 17
NEW YORK - Alex Rodriguez denied using performance-enhancing drugs, telling CBS' "60 Minutes" in an interview aired Sunday night that he's never felt as...
Persecution of Christians in Iraq worse now than under Saddam Hussein, "vicar of Baghdad" tells "60 Minutes"
Original at Orlando Sentinel
• Thu, Nov 29
By OrlandoSentinel.com Christians in Iraq are probably worse off than ever these days, an Anglican priest tells CBS' "60 Minutes." The Rev. Canon Andrew White, who is called the "vicar of Baghdad," estimates that 90 percent of the country's Christians have left...
Joel Osteen Answers His Critics - CBS News
Original at CBS News
• Thu, Oct 11
Joel Osteen Answers His Critics NY - Osteen's interview will be broadcast on 60 Minutes this Sunday, Oct. 14, at 7:30 pm ET, 7 pm PT. "You know, you get people that want to criticize, ...
Pastor Joel Osteen to "60 Minutes": "I told you I was a crybaby"
Original at Orlando Sentinel
• Thu, Oct 11
By OrlandoSentinel.com Brace yourself for an emotional interview with Pastor Joel Osteen on CBS' "60 Minutes" this Sunday. The best-selling author puts his hands in his heads during a chat with correpsondent Byron Pitts. "We're not perfect," Osteen says. ...
Revisiting Don Imus - CBS News
Original at CBS News
• Sun, Apr 15
Revisiting Don Imus NY - Correspondent Mike Wallace got to know him ten years ago when he did a profile on him for 60 Minutes. It is revealing of Don Imus and 60 Minutes decided, ...
Mike Wallace Saw “Chaos,” Reveals Rather Didn’t Watch Memogate ...
Original at NewsBusters.org
• Mon, Nov 28
In a taped interview aired Monday night on FNC’s The O’Reilly Factor, Mike Wallace of CBS’s 60 Minutes, agreed that the Bush National Guard story ... were putting the story together “was chaos” inside the 60 Minutes offices and that Dan ...