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Rate Video: Kroft's Reporter's Notebook

Original at CBSNews.com external link    Fri, Nov 6

Could foreign hackers get into the computer systems that run crucial elements of the world's infrastructure? Steve Kroft previews his upcoming "60 Minutes" report.

Rate Video: Kroft's Reporter's Notebook

Original at CBS News external link    Fri, Nov 6

Could foreign hackers get into the computer systems that run crucial elements of the world's infrastructure? Steve Kroft previews his upcoming "60 Minutes" report.

Rate Business Emmy Nominees Announced

Original at mediabistro.com external link    Thu, Nov 5

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Eight of CBS's 15 nods were nominations for segments on "60 Minutes." Four others were for "Evening News with Katie Couric."Two of CNBC's documentaries were nominated for awards as well as "Boom, Bust, Blame: The Inside Story of America's Economic Crisis" on CNBC.com.Two of Elisabeth Leam...

Rate Lara Logan Pregnant

Original at mediabistro.com external link    Wed, Nov 4

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TVNewser has learned globetrotting CBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan is pregnant with her second child. Logan gave birth last December to Joseph Washington Burkett V. Though based in Washington, DC, Logan continues to report from around the world. She appeared on "60 Minut...

Rate Video: 60 Minutes, 11.01.09

Original at CBS News external link    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

Rate Video: 60 Minutes, 11.01.09

Original at CBSNews.com external link    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

Rate Podcast: H1N1 Flu Vaccine, Yakuza

Original at podradio.nu external link    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...

Rate Review: Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit

Original at TV Squad external link    Sun, Nov 1

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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...

Past Two Weeks

 

Rate Video Pirates: The Bane of Hollywood

Original at CBSNews.com external link    Fri, Oct 30

60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl Investigates Multi-Billion Dollar Video Piracy

Rate Now you can know when CBS sports coverage is going to run long

Original at TV Squad external link    Mon, Oct 26

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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...

Rate '60 Minutes': Medicare Fraud Raises 'Troubling Questions About Our Government's Ability to Manage a Medical Bureaucracy'Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Sun, Oct 25

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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.

Rate Podcast: Medicare and Medicaid

Original at podradio.nu external link    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...

Past Month

 

Rate '60' Finishes 7th Again

Original at mediabistro.com external link    Tue, Oct 20

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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.

Rate Joe Peyronnin: Don Hewitt

Original at Huffington Post external link    Mon, Oct 19

By Joe Peyronnin Today's memorial was a wonderful tribute to a true pioneer. There sat Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Steve Kroft, Lesley Stahl, Scott Pelley, Andy Rooney, Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amapour and dozens of other executives, correspondents, producers and editors whose lives D...

Rate Safer, Sawyer, Gibson, O'Reilly Turn Out to Remember Don Hewitt

Original at mediabistro.com external link    Mon, Oct 19

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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...

Rate Three Rivers: Good Intentions - open thread

Original at TV Squad external link    Sun, Oct 18

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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...

Rate Missouri Viewer Tells CBS: You Are On Notice - Stop Cheerleading for War or Face Sponsor Boycott

Original at AfterDowningStreet.org external link    Mon, Oct 12

By Chip I just watched a CBS 60 Minutes segment on the US Marines of Golf Company stationed in southern Afghanistan. Skimming the readers' reactions, this action turned up. Read it for yourself, below. John Van Ness General Manager KRCG-TV 10188 Old Hwy 54 N New Bloomfield, MO 65063

Rate Video: 60 Minutes, 10.11.09

Original at CBS News external link    Sun, Oct 11

Scott Pelley spends time with a U.S. Marine company; Also, Bob Simon reports on professional football player's brain damage; Plus, Steve Kroft on the newest craze for extreme adventurers.

Year 2009

 

Rate Podcast: Mini-Madoff; TN Waste

Original at podradio.nu external link    Tue, Oct 6

On 60 Minutes, Steve Kroft interviews Marc Dreier, the so-called "mini-Madoff" Ponzi schemer to help better understand how Bernard Madoff could have done what he did. Lesley Stahl reports on 130 million tons of waste in Kingston, Tennessee. Later on in the show, Scott Pelley travels to Ke...

Rate How a Functionally Illiterate Kid can Grow Up to be a '60 Minutes' Correspondent

Original at mediabistro.com external link    Tue, Sep 29

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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.

Rate Podcast: 60 Minutes

Original at podradio.nu external link    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...

Rate Podcast: Wildfires, Afghanistan, Music

Original at podradio.nu external link    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...

Rate Podcast: Recycling Electronics; The Wasteland; Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction; Forrest Bird

Original at podradio.nu external link    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...

Rate 60 Minutes Chief: Dan Rathera s Work a Not Even Close to the Standards We Expecta

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    Tue, Aug 18

Sundaya s Los Angeles Times had an update on Dan Rathera s continuing lawsuit against CBS News over what Dan might call the a oeforged-memos-to-torpedo-Busha s-re-election-in-2004 scandal.a Rather scalded CBS with language he used to save exclusively for conservatives: a oe Their st...

Rate Podcast: TSA Checkpoints; Drunk Driving; Wyclef Jean

Original at podradio.nu external link    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...

Rate Podcast: 60 Minutes: 07/26/09

Original at podradio.nu external link    Sun, Jul 26

Lesley Stahl investigates the reason for a rise in gun sales, despite the economic downturn. The African lion is facing a new threat - poison, and their numbers continue to dwindle. Correspondent Bob Simon investigates. Charlie Rose speaks with casino mogul Steve Wynn. And Andy Rooney reme...

Rate Podcast: 60 MINUTES

Original at podradio.nu external link    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...

Rate Podcast: Online Poker; Mind Reading; Africa

Original at podradio.nu external link    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...

Rate Podcast: Supermax Prison; Drug-cartel Violence; Lebron James

Original at podradio.nu external link    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...

Rate Podcast: Madoff Scam; Deportation; Alice Waters

Original at podradio.nu external link    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...

Rate '60 Minutes': #13 With a Bullet

Original at Television Week external link    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>

Rate Podcast: Failed Banks; Pakistan; Michael Phelps

Original at podradio.nu external link    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...

Rate LEFTOVERS: '60 Minutes' of softball no sweat for LeBron - Las Vegas Review

Original at Las Vegas Review-Journal external link    Thu, May 7

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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 ...

Rate Opinion: Following Politico's lead, media fixate on Obama's "awkward laughter" in 60 Minutes interview

Original at Media Matters for America external link    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.

Rate 60 Minutes with Barack Obama - March 22, 2009

Original at moonshinepatriot (Blogspot) external link    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??

Rate How To: Andy Rooney Offers Great Depression TipsVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at it.truveo.com external link    Thu, Mar 5

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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

Rate How To: Andy Rooney Offers Great Depression Tips

Original at uk.video.yahoo.com external link    Wed, Mar 4

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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

Rate How To: Andy Rooney Offers Great Depression TipsVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at fr.truveo.com external link    Mon, Mar 2

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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

Rate How To: Andy Rooney Offers Great Depression Tips

Original at strimoo.com external link    Sat, Feb 21

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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

Rate How To: Andy Rooney Offers Great Depression Tips

Original at stupidvideos.com external link    Wed, Dec 17

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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

Rate 60 Minutes Crew Roughed Up in China While Reporting On America's E-Waste

Original at Boing Boing external link    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...

Rate 60 Minutes - with Barack Obama and Joe Biden

Original at moonshinepatriot (Blogspot) external link    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

Rate CBS 60 Minutes....The Apple Patch Diet....NBC Today Show

Original at newsreview.com external link    Mon, May 26

Apple Patch Diet is in the news! Apple Patch Diet is in the news! NBC Today Show CBS 60 Minutes.

Rate The Schnauzer Awards: 60 Minutes Edition

Original at Legal Schnauzer external link    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.

Year 2007

 

Rate Persecution of Christians in Iraq worse now than under Saddam Hussein, "vicar of Baghdad" tells "60 Minutes"

Original at Orlando Sentinel external link    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...

Rate Joel Osteen Answers His Critics - CBS News

Original at CBS News external link    Thu, Oct 11

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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, ...

Rate Pastor Joel Osteen to "60 Minutes": "I told you I was a crybaby"

Original at Orlando Sentinel external link    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. ...

Rate Revisiting Don Imus - CBS News

Original at CBS News external link    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, ...

Year 2006

 

Rate Pay-Per-Podcasts?

Original at BusinessWeek external link    Tue, Jan 3

With the goal of revving up the media company's digital offerings, Larry Kramer took over as head of CBS's digital media unit in April. Under his leadership, CBS is now dishing up more specialized content, blogs, and video -- plus plenty of podcasts. Whether by presenting snippets from 60 M...

Year 2005

 

Rate Mike Wallace Saw “Chaos,” Reveals Rather Didn’t Watch Memogate ...

Original at NewsBusters.org external link    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 ...

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