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skypilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 12:38 PM
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How many of you have STOPPED watching "60 Minutes"???
I used to watch this show without fail--Sunday and Wednesday--but recently it seems that the bulk of their stories are about celebrities, artists, child prodigies, sports figures... If they've done a hard-hitting news segment recently I missed it.
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lebkuchen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 12:40 PM
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1. I don't receive it, but if it's anything like CNNI
I haven't turned the news on in weeks for the same reason you have given.
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StJohnsVI Donating Member (5 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 12:40 PM
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2. I stopped watching it about a year ago
I'm very rarely interested in the stories they cover anymore
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 12:41 PM
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3. Every once in a while they will do a good one
I'm thinking of a few before the election, namely the Cheney/Halliburton story and the story about how poorly guarded the nations chemical plants are.

but I think you are right...they are getting less and less hard hitting.
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 12:41 PM
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4. 60 minutes?
What's that... an hour?
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 12:41 PM
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5. We have and my husband was a die hard fan, too.
But he discovered Democracy Now!, which airs opposite 60 Minutes. My guy is currently in crush with Amy Goodman. I don't exist for an hour each day.

*sigh*
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Senior citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 12:43 PM
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6. Yes, and I've written them.
Edited on Thu Feb-17-05 12:48 PM by Senior citizen
The good news is that 3 of the people they tried to get rid of are fighting back.

The bad news is that 60 Minutes is no longer worth watching.

I've been watching it for most of my life. Many times the only time I'd turn the TV on all week was Sunday evening for 60 Minutes.

Oh well. Not that they'd cover the Gannon scandal or anything else important. Like the death squad guy, Negroponte who is now intelligence chief. 60 Minutes is now an official waste of bandwidth like the rest of the CMC (Corporate Media Cartel, replacement acronym for MSM--thanks Melodybe).
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skypilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 12:48 PM
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9. Which three people were they trying to get rid of??
I haven't heard about this.
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Senior citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:07 PM
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18. 3 of the producers of Dan Rather's Bush* AWOL piece. n/t
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skypilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:13 PM
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20. Oh, right.
I DID know about THAT. I didn't know that they were fighting back though. Good for them.
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LiviaOlivia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 12:46 PM
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7. Yes stopped at the Big tobacco bend-over
Edited on Thu Feb-17-05 12:51 PM by LiviaOlivia
1996?
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Lisabtrucking Donating Member (807 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 12:47 PM
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8. I quit watching all of the major news programs.
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CityZen-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 12:51 PM
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10. 60 Minutes Of Bu$*t!
The last hard hitting minute was Andy Rooney's.
My M.O. is to tune in at the intro of the show to see if they have any recall of journalism. For I don't know how long, it has been 60 Minutes of total Bu$h*t!
I am expecting Gannon to be added to the 60 Min. crew.
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skypilot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 12:55 PM
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11. That's what I've been doing.
I tune in at the very beginning to see what topics they are going to cover that night. Invariably, I end up rolling my eyes and changing the channel.
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CityZen-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:00 PM
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15. Cred. Is Dead
How does the 60 Min. crew reflect on their credibility? That vision must be obscured by their estates and their BMW's!
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Greybnk48 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 12:57 PM
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12. Stopped watching after I saw "The Insider"
if you're expecting important stories on 60" you'll be disappointed.
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swimmernsecretsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 12:57 PM
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13. It used to be a family ritual
We'd gather around the TV after going to Sunday Mass and watch 60 minutes.

One day, sometime last year, I realized that I had not watched it in a long time. Like, years. That disturbed me, because I thought of it as such an institution, a watchdog perhaps, that the fact that I had not even thought of it in a long time worried me.
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Hamlette Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 12:58 PM
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14. I stopped about a year ago. Before that, I never missed a show.
Since the election I have turned off all news except Keith Olberman and Jon Stewart. I used to watch an average of 4 hours of news a night.

They are all bought and paid for whores for the GOP. And the ones who are doing it for free should be embarassed that they didn't cash in.

Not only that, taxpayers are funding it.
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xxqqqzme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:02 PM
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16. stopped watching about 6
years ago. Judging from the posts, I haven't missed anything.
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kwassa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:03 PM
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17. They do very little original journalism, they usually follow print stories
I don't watch it because it is usually an inconvenient time, and it is usually on a story I already know about. I haven't watched in a regular way in at least ten years.

I stopped watching almost all news shows except for

the best.

"Frontline"
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giant_robot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:07 PM
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19. I never made a conscious decision to stop watching...
...I just lost interest. I turn it on occasionally, but I usually end up channel surfing before it's over.
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idlisambar Donating Member (916 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:30 PM
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21. Frontline is way better
60 minutes has gone down the tubes.
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lectrobyte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:31 PM
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22. I've not really stopped, but I haven't watched it all the way through
in several years, when in the 70's through about 1990 or so I never missed it... The formula seems to be some interview with someone major in the news, then a human interest piece with some family fighting adversity of some sort, and then the artist of the week. And Andy Rooney. I still like Andy, though.
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BiggJawn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 01:35 PM
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23. They've been doing re-runs and puff pieces.
Been a few times I've thought "Wait a minute. I've seen this story before..."
And the puff-pieces about has-been pro athletes ministering to ghetto kids...<yawn>

Guess "The Memo" incident took the lead out of their collective pencils.
As we've seen, "Jeff Gannon" didn't have that problem...:evilgrin:
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