60 Minutes

By Bill Maher But apparently it's taken very seriously, because there was Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes asking the Secretary of Health and Human Services what she thought about the fact that "Bill Maher told his viewers anyone who gets a flu shot is an idiot."

By Kate Kelly The government is closely monitoring the situation, and a spokesperson for the National Vaccine Program stated on CBS' 60 Minutes (11/01/09) that of the 10 million doses of the swine flu vaccine that have currently been administered, there have been no notable problems. To watch the 60 M...

By Mika Brzezinski By 38, I had a shiny new contract as the anchor of the Sunday evening broadcast; a correspondent spot on 60 Minutes Wednesday; and the possibility of co-hosting the CBS Evening News. It was great fun, and a huge steroid injection to the ego. My two girls were especially proud.

By Judge H. Lee Sarokin So many law suits that are settled are designated confidential because they are frequently the result of blackmail and extortion, which has become an accepted and common practice in our legal system. The David Letterman case has caused a great deal of discussion about blackmail, and whe...

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...

By Eric Alterman The Washington Post: "Jeff Fager, executive producer of '60 Minutes,' told the Los Angeles Times in August, 'It's hard to watch' Rather's never-ending legal fight. You can read the rest of Eric Alterman and Mickey Ehrlich's analysis in their recent article, "Think Again: CBS and Dan Rat...

By Jeff Biggers Coda: If CBS 60 Minutes, which did an extensive report on the toxic impact of coal ash last Sunday, had interviewed Pizarchik, the Senate would already be on its way to block his nomination and ask the Obama administration for a bona fide candidate to redeem OSMRE to its rightful purpose.

By Yvette Kantrow Did you watch Charlie Rose last night? According to the latest issue of Fortune magazine, you probably did. "The Charlie Rose Show" (or "Charlie" as... Did you watch Charlie Rose last night? According to the latest issue of Fortune magazine, you probably did. "The Charlie Rose Show" (or "Char...

By The Progress Report by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Satyam Khanna, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Ali Frick, and Ryan Powers To receive The Progress Report in your email inbox... <p><em>by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Satyam Khanna, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Ali...

By Dr. Johnny C. Benjamin Ed Bradley was an icon in the Black community. His intelligence, eloquence, deportment and cool were a beacon of hope for many people. When Black men were far more likely to be depicted on television as pimps, drug dealers, thugs and ne'er-do-wells in general, Ed Bradley was more than a role...

By Glenn Hurowitz 60 Minutes had an extraordinary piece by Bob Simon last night on how U.S. poison manufacturer FMC is exporting Furadan (banned in Europe and strictly... 60 Minutes had an extraordinary piece by Bob Simon last night on how U.S. poison manufacturer FMC is exporting Furadan (banned in Europe and st...

By The Huffington Post News Editors In my more than half a century at CBS News, I don't recall anyone having a better fix on what `60 Minutes' should be than Bob Chandler," Hewitt said in a statement. Chandler also served as director of operations for the CBS News Election Unit, where he helped create the CBS News Poll, which in 1...

By The Huffington Post News Editors amp;lt;p>On paper it hardly seems like the blueprint for a hit TV series: a news program that reports regularly from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, devotes nearly 20 minutes to an arcane underpinning of the financial crisis known as credit-default swaps, and concludes each b...

By Rachel Sklar Stahl goes in with the specifics — not like she gets any back: Following a report on illegal immigrants carrying diseases into the U.S., one of the correspondents on his show, Christine Romans, told Dobbs that there have been 7,000 cases of leprosy in the U.S. in the past three years.

By Sheldon Drobny The ITS was alerted by Allen Dulles of US intelligence NOT to release its Bad Arolsen files as many of the dead Jewish victims would show up as "alive" in allied countries. To avoid exposing the Alt Ausee operation, the Americans (and the British) asked the German government to sit on the Bad...

By Eric Boehlert Spooked at the time by the controversy raging over CBS' botched 60 Minutes II report on Bush and the National Guard, CBS completely abdicated its news responsibility and announced that it would be "inappropriate" to air Bradley's ...

In his new book, 'State of Denial,' Woodward spells out in agonizing detail how George W. Bush and the Republican party have lied to the American people on the level of violence in Iraq and, in particular, the intensity of attacks against U.S. troops.