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Sallie Mae | The Ethanol Solution | John Daly: Golf and Beer

TV Flash files “Sallie Mae | The Ethanol Solution | John Daly: Golf and Beer” as hour 133 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 38, episode 30, aired 2006-05-07, 60 min.

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This leaf is S38E30: listed hour 133 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 30 of 32 in season 38. It aired 2006-05-07 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Lethal and Leaking | Priory of Sion | Colbert Report” (S38E29). Next is “The New Boss | The Harlem Children's Zone | Not Ready to Make Nice” (S38E31). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Where does Sallie Mae | The Ethanol Solution | John Daly: Golf and Beer sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S38E30 is listed hour 133 of 767 — hour 30 of 32 in season 38, season 38 episode 30.

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Sallie Mae | The Ethanol Solution | John Daly: Golf and Beer aired 2006-05-07 and is listed at 60 minutes.

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The grammar is the same: multi-segment hour, stopwatch motif, investigations plus profiles. In the 1980s it frequently outrated sitcoms — proof news could dominate prime time.

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The template of TV newsmagazine power — for the craft of the package and the history of broadcast investigation. Hewitt's stopwatch, Wallace's ambush, Safer and Bradley and Rooney's endnotes: Sunday night investigative theater that outrated sitcoms. Appointment news before the infinite scroll. Tick, tick, tick.

Tick, tick, tick — not a theme song, a weapon. CBS's 60 Minutes, Don Hewitt's stopwatch since 1968, was an 1980s Nielsen bully that outrated sitcoms on Sunday night: investigative pieces, profiles, commentator segments, correspondent star power. Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Harry Reasoner, Ed Bradley, Diane Sawyer, Andy Rooney's endnotes. **Ambush interviews and gotcha lore made Wallace a fearsome brand.** The museum guard wants the package as civic virtue. The flash is the ambush. Appointment news before the…

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