I gave up on 60 Minutes when they caved on the tobacco story. I haven't watched it in twenty years or more. When I give up on something, it's usually for good. I honestly didn't know that it was still on. Up until the mid-1990s, I would have hated to miss a show.
60 Minutes is among the many things I stopped watching a long time ago. The few times the truth about the "interviews" versus the finished "product" has seen the light of day, it's disgusting. 60 Minutes goads people into a rage and then copies/pastes that response into an entirely different context. 60 Minutes flat-out lies, and pretends they are "investigative." Do an internet search on "60 Minutes sued" and see what you get. I've had friends who have been interviewed by "the media" and it always ends the same: a pile of misrepresentative, deceitful crap. Every single time. I'm a member of a gun rights group that was interviewed by Katie Couric. She asked a question about a specific issue and immediately people provided SIX FULL MINUTES of fact-based response. When the segment aired, they spliced in footage taken prior to the interview in which Couric asked the interviewees to sit in silence while technicians calibrated the recording equipment, as though she asked something we had no response for. In fact, the immediate and direct responses have yet to see the light of day. We sued and lost, because apparently lack of integrity and honesty are "customary in the industry." 60 Minutes is among the worse because they swear there is no turd under the polish, while that's all there is. Oh...screw their damned stopwatch. (I wish you hadn't asked this question. Now I'm sitting here all pi$$ed off.)
I watched it from 1969 to 1971. In 1971 I moved to the remote mountains, Colorado, Montana, and finally Oregon and had no TV until 1989. I tried watching it again and it was evident that they were not telling the complete stories and were controlled by big-money advertisers.
Nope, but we do watch Sunday Morning, hosted by Jane Pauley. Love what is talked about and, at the end, the Moment of Nature.
I do tend to watch 60 minutes. I don't pay too much attention to the political stories, but do like the features. A while back they did one on a blind architect that was fascinating. Once in a while I remember the CBS Sunday Morning show, and altho I can't stand Jane Pauley, I do like many of the quirky real people stories they do.
Yesterdays Sunday Morning was a good one. Part of it talked about all the cool things law enforcement officers have done with, and for, the public.
Sometime I do.There used to be competitive reporters, good t what they did, an intelligent man with good perception managed the program. Now they'll throw in anybody, and the program reflects inexperience and a more casual and looser control.