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The 206 users who count themselves as 60 Minutes fans have written a total of 11 reviews.

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60 Minutes has been on the air since 1968, beginning on a Tuesday, but spending most of its time on Sundays, where it remains today. This popular news magazine provides both hard hitting investigations, interviews and features, along with people in the news and current events. 60 Minutes has set unprecedented...  more

60 Minutes has been on the air since 1968, beginning on a Tuesday, but spending most of its time on Sundays, where it remains today. This popular news magazine provides both hard hitting investigations, interviews and features, along with people in the news and current events. 60 Minutes has set unprecedented records in the Nielsen's ratings with a number 1 rating, five times, making it among the most successful t.v. programs in all of television history. This series has won more Emmy awards than any other news program and in 2003, Don Hewitt, the creator (back in 1968), was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Emmy, along with the 60 Minute correspondents. For the 2009 season, correspondents include Steve Kroft, Lesley Stahl, Bob Simon, Scott Pelley, Morley Safer, Katie Couric, Byron Pitts, Lara Logan, Charlie Rose, Anderson Cooper, and Andy Rooney. Added to the 11 Peabody awards, this phenomenally long-lived series has collected 78 awards up to the 2005 season and remains among the viewers top choice for news magazine features.  less

• Sleep deprived episode

  I saw this episode sometime between November 2008 and january 2009. I have been looking every where for this episode. Does any one know which episode it is? I went to CBs and imdb and still couldnt find the episode. I was thinking that it was a repeat from another year, nut I am not sure. Please help.

  I saw this episode sometime between November 2008 and january 2009. I have been looking every where for this episode. Does any one know which episode it is? I went to CBs and imdb and still couldnt find the episode. I was thinking that it was a repeat from another year, nut I am not sure. Please help. less

  dvenyce Last online Oct 15, 2009
  2 comments, last one Apr 18, 2009 + Add Comment

• Nuclear power 's aim is weapons, not global warming.

  The real aim of nuclear power is weapons, not electricity. The trick is to use your hard earned tax dollars by lying to you and pay for your own doomsday! This segment was a "pant full" to grab trillions of our tax dollars for political power!  

  The real aim of nuclear power is weapons, not electricity. The trick is to use your hard earned tax dollars by lying to you and pay for your own doomsday! This segment was a "pant full" to grab trillions of our tax dollars for political power!   less

  theroyprocess Last online Apr 14, 2007
  1 comments, last one Apr 10, 2007 + Add Comment

• Ed Bradley RIP

  Surprise to everyone and CBS  will have a special show for Ed this Sunday.

  Surprise to everyone and CBS  will have a special show for Ed this Sunday. less

  marvelfan89 Last online 1 day, 6 hrs ago
  2 comments, last one Nov 12, 2006 + Add Comment

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  10 Perfect

  For a show that's 41 years old, it's still looking pretty darn good hide show

  Born in 1968, 60 Minutes had to earn it's place as something other than an extended news program. It had to stay current and on point, which is difficult to do through multiple generations of viewers. It's funny how a program that bored a 12 year old to tears seems to have evolved into a "must see" show years later. Some of 60 Minute's reporters have been there from the beginning. Andy Rooney, Morley Safer, I suspect have been around since rocks formed, but are amazingly still sharp as it gets and even funny. 60 Minutes still garners top, exclusive interviews with foreign leaders and U.S. Presidents, never hesitating to ask the questions we're all wondering about and others are afraid to approach. How, for so many years and so many shows, does it stay fresh? Part of the answer is because it's about life and life is new every day; unpredictable and surprising. The other part is because of the people that make 60 Minutes happen. From the cornerstones that built it to the newest anchors and roving reporters, being contemporary is what keeps it looking pretty darn good!

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  TheReverend1 Added May 15, 2009 All my reviews
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  8 Great

  Interview with Harry Markopolos. hide show

  Why is everyone fawning over the "hero" Harry Markopolos interviewed tonight? It's great he tried to blow the whistle to the SEC on Bernie, but WHY let a decade go by and not go public on this fraud. If you don't get results, try something else! Just think how many lives may have not been ruined or at least reduce the carnage. This guy came across as very smug and self-serving in the interview. He does not impress me at all. We need more people who don't look the other way, but follow through until you get satisfactory results. Hopefully Harry Markopolos doesn't get anymore "fame" from the public. Now if we can just see Bernie in stripes!

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  bethmartilik Added Mar 3, 2009 All my reviews
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  9.8 Superb

  I watched your broadcast on Alton Logan. Why would they make him pay bail if he is innocent and WHY would they use tax payer money to re-try him for something they know he did not do? I do not get it. hide show

  I watched your broadcast on Alton Logan. Why would they make him pay bail if he is innocent and WHY would they use tax payer money to re-try him for something they know he did not do? I do not get it. Our taxpayer money could be used for a lot better and more important reasons.
  
  I have a DVR and always watch your show without the commercials. I would not miss it for the world. You bring a lot of great stories into my living room. Thank you so much for your continue effort. By the way, I love Andy Rooney. He makes my week.

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  nancy_caum Added May 26, 2008 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  I would like to request you to please investigate the abuse of American Citizen who look like either arab desent or Pakistan/Indian looks at most European cities airports security before checking in for flights to United States. hide show

  If you ask them why are they asking such questions,they refuse to answer any question and tells you to calm down, they are not there to answer questions.
  
  I think it's so unfair to all of us as an American's, where we have to go through such ordeal everytime we take a flight to come from Europe.
  
  Security questions I can understand and all for it for any kind of safety, but when safety questions become a personal questions and specially in a different tone to scare you and given you an impression that if you don't answer or follow the rules, you cannot go home.
  
  I would like to know who give these people who are not European or Americans' to treat American's so bad, like I need a permission from one of these clown to come home.

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  summerautumn Added Mar 31, 2008 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  Medical mistakes and sleep deprivation hide show

  The CBS 60 Minutes program tonight (Mar 16, 2008) presented an interesting juxtaposition of 2 stories, although I don't think it was intentional. The first story, having to do with medical errors, and the second, about sleep deprivation and diminished functionality, made me think about doctors in training (residents) and how most of them experience significant sleep loss due to the many hours they work. As a parent of a newly trained orthopaedic surgeon, I can tell you with great certainty how little sleep most residents are able to get. And don't you think the many medical errors cited in your first story might be caused in part by over-worked and fatigued residents, and perhaps nurses as well? And when one begins to attempt to understand the reasoning behind making residents work such long hours, it seems to come down to a source of cheap labor for the hospital. Either that, or it's seen as a rite of passage which is expected of residents simply because their predecessors did it. Not such a good reason to put patients' lives at risk, true? Perhaps you should devote a story specifically to this subject. It might help bring about change which could reduce medical mistakes.

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  oneillal Added Mar 16, 2008 All my reviews