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60 Minutes Exposes Turkey's Oppression of Minority Rights

Harut Sassounian | Posted 12.23.2009 | World


Harut Sassounian

CBS' 60 Minutes recently featured a devastating exposé on the violation of Greek minorities' rights in Turkey. This may be the first time that a major American TV network broadcast such coverage.

Turkey Has No Place in the European Union

Michael Huffington | Posted 12.21.2009 | World


Michael Huffington

European countries have serious and well-founded reservations about admitting Turkey into the EU. America should butt out of this issue and let the Europeans make their own decisions.

You're a Student of History, And I'm Not

Harry Shearer | Posted 12.14.2009 | Media


Harry Shearer

For a crystalline example of what's wrong with American journalism, and the American political conversation, go no farther than Sunday's 60 Minutes interview with President Obama.

Obama: I Didn't Run For Office To Help 'Fat Cat Bankers'

Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics


President Obama takes aim at "fat cat bankers" and their aggressive lobbying efforts to defeat financial reform in an upcoming 60 Minutes interview se...

Andy Rooney's Publisher On New Book Of Collected Writing

The Atlantic | Peter Osnos | Posted 12.02.2009 | Books


Andy Rooney turns 91 on January 14, 2010. For 31 of those years he has delivered the closing essay on CBS's 60 Minutes. These pieces are the main reas...

Gold Addiction Fuels Brutal Congo War (VIDEO)

Posted 11.25.2009 | World


This Sunday "60 Minutes" will present an investigation into how the global gold industry is helping fuel violence and chaos in the Congo. CBS repor...

Andre Agassi ... Keep Your Head Up, Dude

Dr. Johnny Benjamin | Posted 11.11.2009 | Sports


Dr. Johnny Benjamin

Andre Agassi does not appear, to me, to be financially motivated, He appears to be a human being attempting to grow and find a happier sustainable place in this world.

Tadamasa Goto's Liver Transplant Profiled: How Yakuza Boss Got New Liver At UCLA (VIDEO)

Posted 11.02.2009 | World


On Sunday, 60 Minutes aired a report by Lara Logan on the puzzling liver transplants received by Japan's top crime bosses at UCLA Medical Center. Betw...

Andy Rooney On Sleep

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living


Dr. Michael J. Breus

It would be nice to have a gauge on us to let us know when we need to get some shut eye or when we've had enough, much like a battery light that comes on to tell us it's time to charge a certain device for optimal use.

David And Susan Axelrod Fight For Epilepsy Cure

Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.26.2009 | Impact


Most Americans know David Axelrod as a senior political adviser to President Obama. But last night, David and his wife Susan joined Katie Couric on CB...

Don Hewitt

Joe Peyronnin | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media


Joe Peyronnin

Yesterday, Don Hewitt was remembered as a true pioneer of broadcast news in a touching ceremony at the Rose Hall in New York's Time Warner Center.

Dudamel Begins New Era at L.A. Philharmonic

Donna Perlmutter | Posted 10.10.2009 | Entertainment


Donna Perlmutter

On Thursday, Gustavo Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's new podium chief, bedazzled an elite crowd, sold to the walls and thronged with celebrities.

Think Again: CBS and Dan Rather -- Doing the Right's Dirty Work

Eric Alterman | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media


Eric Alterman

CBS is attempting to portray Rather as some crazy old grandpa. What's more significant, however, is the "Memogate" scandal that could be answered by the Rather lawsuit.

Irreparable Damage: Senate Must Block OSM Nominee Pizarchik Today

Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green


Jeff Biggers

Given the irreparable damage of his mining record, Pizarchik's entrenched support of the coal industry suggests that the OSM would continue its decades-old tradition of lawlessness and betrayal of coalfield residents.

Coal Ash On 60 Minutes: Lax Coal Ash Recycling Practices "An Outrage" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green


Lesley Stahl on Sunday's 60 Minutes did an in-depth look at the problems with the by-products of coal production, commonly known as coal ash. Coal ash...

McChrystal On 60 Minutes: Afghanistan "A Little Worse" Than Gen. Stanley M. McChrystal Expected (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.27.2009 | World


Things in Afghanistan are "probably a little worse" than Gen. Stanley M. McChrystal expected. 60 Minutes aired its interview Sunday night with Gen. M...

General McChrystal 60 Minutes Interview: Overwhelming US Firepower Not The Way Forward In Afghanistan (VIDEO)

Posted 11.24.2009 | World


America's top commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, warned that overwhelming firepower from the United States is not the way forward i...

Time for Obama to Pitch His Health Care Plan Kanye West-Style

Glynnis MacNicol | Posted 11.14.2009 | Media


Glynnis MacNicol

The president really just needs everyone -- everyone -- to shut the hell up for seven days so he can get his point across!

Obama To Appear On "60 Minutes" Sunday

CBS | Posted 11.10.2009 | Media


We just got word that President Obama will sit down with 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft for an interview that will air Sunday night on "60 Minut...

Remembering Don Hewitt, Taking Woodstock, Michael Vick and More

Alec Baldwin | Posted 09.24.2009 | Entertainment


Alec Baldwin

Sunday nights have been sacred television time in my house for years now. That's thanks to David Chase and, especially, to Don Hewitt and the cast, producers and staff of 60 Minutes.

My GE Dishwasher Tragedy, Manufacturer Parts, Car Repairs and Doctor Visits: Let's Be Mad as Hell and Not Take it Anymore!

Michael Russnow | Posted 09.22.2009 | Business


Michael Russnow

Manufacturing CEOs do very little to reduce the need for maintenance work and perhaps there should be legislative enforcement requiring them to do so.

Memories of Don Hewitt

Murray Fromson | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media


Murray Fromson

I knew Don Hewitt when he was up and down, mostly up, and those who participated in Hewitt's shadow were grateful for the opportunity to be one of the lucky ones.

Lesley Stahl On "60 Minutes" Boss Don Hewitt: He Hated My Hair...And I Loved Him!

wowOwow | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media


He paused, and squirmed. He said the last thing he wanted was to upset me. "Well, just go for it," I said. So he blurted it out: "I hate your hair ....

Don Hewitt and the Art of Truth

Steven Weber | Posted 09.20.2009 | Media


Steven Weber

In 60 Minutes, Don Hewitt created a salon for the nation, an oasis in the midst of a saccharine, pop culture desert. It is one hour of much needed sophistication, every week.

WATCH: Chevron's Ecuador Problem Forces Andy Rooney to Drop the H-Bomb...Something He Really, Really, Hates to Do

Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 09.19.2009 | Green


Paul Paz y Miño

Andy Rooney hates what Chevron is doing -- leaving 18 billion gallons of wastewater and 17 million gallons of crude oil to pollute Amazonian communities, and then trying to pretend that nothing ever happened.