60 Minutes
Evidence of Injustice/The Youngest Terrorist/Calorie Counting
TV Flash files “Evidence of Injustice/The Youngest Terrorist/Calorie Counting” as hour 163 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 40, episode 9, aired 2007-11-18, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S40E09: listed hour 163 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 9 of 16 in season 40. It aired 2007-11-18 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Superbug/Insanity on Death Row/Here Come the Millennials” (S40E08). Next is “Awakenings/Hi-Tech Heist/Eagles” (S40E10). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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"Evidence of Injustice" examines how flawed science was used in hundreds of prosecutions and may have sent dozens of innocent people to jail. "The Youngest Terrorist" looks at the case of Omar Khadr who was captured in combat and sent to Guantanamo despite being only 15 years-old. "Calorie Counting" looks at how health officials want to force fast food restaurants to reveal the calories count of their food. "Andy Rooney" talks about the network's list of holidays.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Evidence of Injustice/The Youngest Terrorist/Calorie Counting sit in the 60 Minutes guide?
S40E09 is listed hour 163 of 767 — hour 9 of 16 in season 40, season 40 episode 9.
When did 60 Minutes S40E09 air?
Evidence of Injustice/The Youngest Terrorist/Calorie Counting aired 2007-11-18 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is 1980s 60 Minutes different from today's?
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.
In the series
Why this series still plays
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…
Filed against
- Mike Wallace as Correspondent
Mike Wallace’s ambush made 60 Minutes Sunday-night investigative theater that outrated sitcoms — Hewitt’s stopwatch, Safer and Bradley and Rooney’s endnotes, 1960s-into-1980s newsmagazine power. Appointment news before the internet stole…
- Morley Safer as Correspondent
Morley Safer’s packages helped 60 Minutes outrate sitcoms on Sunday night — Hewitt’s stopwatch, Wallace’s ambush, Bradley and Rooney’s endnotes, 1960s-into-1980s newsmagazine power. Appointment news before the internet stole the clock. TV…
- Harry Reasoner as Correspondent
Harry Reasoner was a 60 Minutes correspondent when the stopwatch became civic theater — Hewitt's newsmagazine power, Wallace ambush, Safer and Bradley and Rooney's endnotes, Sunday night investigation that outrated sitcoms. Appointment…
- Ed Bradley as Correspondent
Ed Bradley made 60 Minutes correspondent craft look like Sunday-night theater — Hewitt's stopwatch, investigative packages that outrated sitcoms, and a presence that treated the story as a public square. Appointment news before the…
- Diane Sawyer as Correspondent
Diane Sawyer worked 60 Minutes as correspondent steel — Hewitt’s stopwatch, Wallace’s ambush, Safer and Bradley and Rooney’s endnotes, Sunday-night investigative theater that outrated sitcoms. Template of TV newsmagazine power. TV Flash…
Also in season 40
- S40E01 President Ahmadinejad | Pot Shops | The Match of His Life
- S40E02 The Justice Nobody Knows/What Killed Rebecca Riley?/Invincible
- S40E03 The Man from Interpol/Roots/Springsteen/The Bird Man of Idaho
- S40E04 Blackwater/A Clean Version of Hell/Joel Osteen/Dubai Inc.
- S40E05 The Age of Megafires/Life Saver/No Ordinary Spy
- S40E06 Bombing Afghanistan/What's Wrong with the Bees?/Sarko L'Americain