Showing posts with label 60 minutes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 60 minutes. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Michael Moore>"The effects of capitalism: The most upsetting story I've seen on 60 Minutes in a long time" (video)


CBS News-60 Minutes, video (13:34):
For some children, socializing and learning are being cruelly complicated by homelessness, as Scott Pelley reports from Florida, where school buses now stop at motels for children who've lost their homes.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Joan McCarter on How 60 Minutes is now Pimpin' the GOP Tax Cut Frame

Joan McCarter (front page on Kos):
In a stunningly one-sided story last night, 60 Minutes gave GOP Gov. Chris Christie the floor to push his war against public employees and the GOP narrative that has taken hold of the country--the debt crisis in the states isn't a revenue problem, it's a spending problem. Media Matters has an excellent summation of the segment.
(SNIP)
It's a Grover Norquist wet dream, with 60 Minutes—which occupies the pinnacle of the "liberal media"— unquestioningly accepting the "spending problem" narrative. That's the narrative that won the day with passage of the tax cut deal. Which, in turn, is probably going to make the crisis in the states much worse. MORE...

Monday, October 25, 2010

60 Minutes on the 99ers (video)


CBSNewsOnline, video (13:15):
Even after an extension of unemployment benefits to 99 weeks, many of those about to go off the program are in a quandary. Scott Pelley talks to some of them in Silicon Valley.

Sunday, September 13, 2009