Complete Bull Shit wouldn’t know news if it hit them in the face. They’re nothing but sleeze.
I have not watched 60 minutes in decades, at least since they used to have that grumpy old guy at the end of every show for comic relief. Good to know I haven’t missed anything
I watched it for a while during the late 1970s and early ’80s. Andy Rooney was the curmudgeon you’re referring to and he was quite often funny and accurate with his barbs.
I can’t remember why I stopped watching it but it was one of things that gradually happened and, as it turned out, I didn’t miss the show.
Lesley Stahl?
I stopped well before she joined the show. One reason might have been because I moved to Saskatchewan in the early 1980s and, due to the summer time shift, the show came on an hour earlier and I didn’t bother to change my viewing schedule.
I recall that the last time I saw it, Dan Rather, Harry Reasoner, and Toronto-born Morley Safer were hosting the show, and that was a long time ago.
Fair enough. In my slackening memory, that seemed an inflection point in quality, but I wasn’t a regular viewer. I’m a bit younger than you, but while I recognise Harry’s name, I don’t remember him at all.
I think Reasoner was the first of those three to leave the show, exiting in, as I recall, the mid-1980s. By then, I’d stopped watching, so I never kept track.
” Andy Rooney was the curmudgeon you’re referring to and he was quite often funny and accurate with his barbs.”
Never was a regular viewer of the show, but one statement in particular has stuck with me all these years.
“If I’m a racist, 95 percent of Americans are racist…and if 95 percent of Americans are racist, we need to find a better word for it.”
(taken from a memory probably 30 years old, so it might not be word-for-word…)
He had a way of cutting through the BS, didn’t he?
And his messy desk became part of his shtick…he was a hoot. I’d sometimes miss most of the show but get to see him at the end.
When I first started watching the show, I recall that Andy Rooney wasn’t on regularly. There was also a rather irritating pro/con “he said, she said” session as the closing segment which I think was on every other week.
Eventually, that, thankfully, was replaced by Rooney being on each time. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was inspired by people like H. L. Mencken.
Ha ha! B–
If not H.L. Mencken then Ebenezer Scrooge, remember this one? Strangely, I do!
People magazine soft-pedaled Hunter Biden’s perversity and dealings with China.
I am convinced the rags are trying to out-scum Walter Duranty.
60 minutes still a thing? Thought it went the way of “What’s My Line?” & “Truth or Consequences”.
I guess my only question is why do people always agree to do interviews with them?
In their defense, they absolutely, positively, 100% believe their bullshit.
They bounce the memes they come up with, with the same thinking people, a kind of clone closed society.
They can’t get out of it even if they wanted, if, that is, they want to stay in he business and make the big bucks.
So you may take it anyway you want.
There would have to be a wholesale, as it were, change to free thinking. Not gonna happen.
The thing is that free thinkers can be wrong though if they discover different, they will accept the truth.
There is no such a thing in the news.
If you have noticed, the Global is not really news or anything such, they are an entertainment company.
They absolve themselves of the obligation to actually know what is it that they are spreading in the name of the news.
“If you have noticed, the Global is not really news or anything such, they are an entertainment company.”
I have noticed, for sure. Haven’t watched the TV news for 20 years now, and when people ask why I tell them: I used to read at least two newspapers a day back then, and eventually realized that the TV news was only giving me part of the story…it took a while to figure out that they were doing it deliberately, though.
If they are an entertainment company, they are failing at that too.
When the media pull stunts like that it should be actionable in a court of law, and those involved stripped of their urnalist status.
No surprise here.
I am be hoping someone will dig up the memo from the Swamp that told CBS: *This is your narrative, stick with it*
Back in the 1980 they did a hit piece on the illinois Power Company and apparent cost overruns on their Clinton Nuclear power project.
IPC agreed to be interviewed by them, with the caveat that IPC was allowed to film everthything that 60 minutes filmed. Very canny on the part of IPC as it turned out.
They then put together a video that showed everything 60 minutes left out – and other edits 60 Minutes added in, like an aggressive question that they insert in front of an answer to an entirely different question.
What 60 minutes broadcast was an intended gross misrepresentation of the facts.
Saw the video of this as part of a college communications course I was taking – this was long before the internet, so while a wide network audience would have seen the 60 minutes broadcast, almost no one would have seen the rebuttal by IPC.
So this sort of fraud has been baked into the 60 minutes cake from the beginning.
Dishonesty is likely a requirement of any “journalist” that they hire.
They peddle lies now. Not lies by omission, but pure lies, meant to deceive, to reverse the truth, that start life as lies.
Recently we have seen the GA election law lie.
When called on it, they divert, invert and project, anything to hide their mendacity.
NR editors do a good job of excoriating these miscreants who better watch their financial hinnies with Veritas’ legal victory:
“Irrespective of any other logistical considerations, it would have been surprising if Publix had not been one of the major players in the state’s effort. It is true that Publix has recently given $100,000 to Ron DeSantis’s gubernatorial reelection bid. It is also true that it gave a million dollars to the progressive Urban League last year, and that, back in 2018, it gave $100,000 to Democratic campaigns in the state. To believe that there is a connection between this routine behavior and decisions that were made during an unforeseen once-in-a-century pandemic is to stretch oneself to the breaking point.”
So egregiously dishonest was 60 Minutes’ attempt that, shortly after it aired, the director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management took to Twitter to condemn it. “I said this before and I’ll say it again,” Jared Moskowitz wrote. “Publix was recommended by FLSERT [State Emergency Response Team] and HealthyFla [Florida Department of Health] as the other pharmacies were not ready to start. Period! Full Stop! No one from the Governors office suggested Publix. It’s just absolute malarkey.” Moskowitz, note, is no ideological ally of Governor DeSantis. ”
Crowder has the unedited version of what was said.
https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/ron-desantis-60-minutes
Complete Bull Shit wouldn’t know news if it hit them in the face. They’re nothing but sleeze.
I have not watched 60 minutes in decades, at least since they used to have that grumpy old guy at the end of every show for comic relief. Good to know I haven’t missed anything
I watched it for a while during the late 1970s and early ’80s. Andy Rooney was the curmudgeon you’re referring to and he was quite often funny and accurate with his barbs.
I can’t remember why I stopped watching it but it was one of things that gradually happened and, as it turned out, I didn’t miss the show.
Lesley Stahl?
I stopped well before she joined the show. One reason might have been because I moved to Saskatchewan in the early 1980s and, due to the summer time shift, the show came on an hour earlier and I didn’t bother to change my viewing schedule.
I recall that the last time I saw it, Dan Rather, Harry Reasoner, and Toronto-born Morley Safer were hosting the show, and that was a long time ago.
Fair enough. In my slackening memory, that seemed an inflection point in quality, but I wasn’t a regular viewer. I’m a bit younger than you, but while I recognise Harry’s name, I don’t remember him at all.
I think Reasoner was the first of those three to leave the show, exiting in, as I recall, the mid-1980s. By then, I’d stopped watching, so I never kept track.
” Andy Rooney was the curmudgeon you’re referring to and he was quite often funny and accurate with his barbs.”
Never was a regular viewer of the show, but one statement in particular has stuck with me all these years.
“If I’m a racist, 95 percent of Americans are racist…and if 95 percent of Americans are racist, we need to find a better word for it.”
(taken from a memory probably 30 years old, so it might not be word-for-word…)
He had a way of cutting through the BS, didn’t he?
And his messy desk became part of his shtick…he was a hoot. I’d sometimes miss most of the show but get to see him at the end.
When I first started watching the show, I recall that Andy Rooney wasn’t on regularly. There was also a rather irritating pro/con “he said, she said” session as the closing segment which I think was on every other week.
Eventually, that, thankfully, was replaced by Rooney being on each time. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was inspired by people like H. L. Mencken.
Ha ha! B–
If not H.L. Mencken then Ebenezer Scrooge, remember this one? Strangely, I do!
https://youtu.be/S7LqsAnhrR4
Truth is a commodity liberals can’t afford!
People magazine soft-pedaled Hunter Biden’s perversity and dealings with China.
I am convinced the rags are trying to out-scum Walter Duranty.
60 minutes still a thing? Thought it went the way of “What’s My Line?” & “Truth or Consequences”.
I guess my only question is why do people always agree to do interviews with them?
In their defense, they absolutely, positively, 100% believe their bullshit.
They bounce the memes they come up with, with the same thinking people, a kind of clone closed society.
They can’t get out of it even if they wanted, if, that is, they want to stay in he business and make the big bucks.
So you may take it anyway you want.
There would have to be a wholesale, as it were, change to free thinking. Not gonna happen.
The thing is that free thinkers can be wrong though if they discover different, they will accept the truth.
There is no such a thing in the news.
If you have noticed, the Global is not really news or anything such, they are an entertainment company.
They absolve themselves of the obligation to actually know what is it that they are spreading in the name of the news.
“If you have noticed, the Global is not really news or anything such, they are an entertainment company.”
I have noticed, for sure. Haven’t watched the TV news for 20 years now, and when people ask why I tell them: I used to read at least two newspapers a day back then, and eventually realized that the TV news was only giving me part of the story…it took a while to figure out that they were doing it deliberately, though.
If they are an entertainment company, they are failing at that too.
When the media pull stunts like that it should be actionable in a court of law, and those involved stripped of their urnalist status.
No surprise here.
I am be hoping someone will dig up the memo from the Swamp that told CBS: *This is your narrative, stick with it*
Back in the 1980 they did a hit piece on the illinois Power Company and apparent cost overruns on their Clinton Nuclear power project.
IPC agreed to be interviewed by them, with the caveat that IPC was allowed to film everthything that 60 minutes filmed. Very canny on the part of IPC as it turned out.
They then put together a video that showed everything 60 minutes left out – and other edits 60 Minutes added in, like an aggressive question that they insert in front of an answer to an entirely different question.
What 60 minutes broadcast was an intended gross misrepresentation of the facts.
Saw the video of this as part of a college communications course I was taking – this was long before the internet, so while a wide network audience would have seen the 60 minutes broadcast, almost no one would have seen the rebuttal by IPC.
So this sort of fraud has been baked into the 60 minutes cake from the beginning.
Dishonesty is likely a requirement of any “journalist” that they hire.
If interested, you may want to check it out here:
60 Minutes 1985: Mary Sinclair and the Midland Nuclear Plant
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=60+minutes+video+illinois+power+company&&view=detail&mid=4E671FC972CE3FE107064E671FC972CE3FE10706&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3D60%2520minutes%2520video%2520illinois%2520power%2520company%26qs%3Dn%26form%3DQBVR%26sp%3D-1%26pq%3D60%2520minutes%2520video%2520illinois%2520power%2520company%26sc%3D0-39%26sk%3D%26cvid%3D69DD4ED777984D62A47588F32DB081B9
Rebuttal video in answer to 60 Minutes broadcast crtical of the Illinois Power Company’s Nuclear Power Project.
https://archive.org/details/tobacco_xnw27a00
And a review below by some guy.
They peddle lies now. Not lies by omission, but pure lies, meant to deceive, to reverse the truth, that start life as lies.
Recently we have seen the GA election law lie.
When called on it, they divert, invert and project, anything to hide their mendacity.
NR editors do a good job of excoriating these miscreants who better watch their financial hinnies with Veritas’ legal victory:
“Irrespective of any other logistical considerations, it would have been surprising if Publix had not been one of the major players in the state’s effort. It is true that Publix has recently given $100,000 to Ron DeSantis’s gubernatorial reelection bid. It is also true that it gave a million dollars to the progressive Urban League last year, and that, back in 2018, it gave $100,000 to Democratic campaigns in the state. To believe that there is a connection between this routine behavior and decisions that were made during an unforeseen once-in-a-century pandemic is to stretch oneself to the breaking point.”
So egregiously dishonest was 60 Minutes’ attempt that, shortly after it aired, the director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management took to Twitter to condemn it. “I said this before and I’ll say it again,” Jared Moskowitz wrote. “Publix was recommended by FLSERT [State Emergency Response Team] and HealthyFla [Florida Department of Health] as the other pharmacies were not ready to start. Period! Full Stop! No one from the Governors office suggested Publix. It’s just absolute malarkey.” Moskowitz, note, is no ideological ally of Governor DeSantis. ”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/60-minutes-dishonest-desantis-hit-job/