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Lower Drinking Age | Muslim Militants | Nazi Mascot

TV Flash files “Lower Drinking Age | Muslim Militants | Nazi Mascot” as hour 190 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 41, episode 20, aired 2009-02-22, 60 min.

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This leaf is S41E20: listed hour 190 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 20 of 33 in season 41. It aired 2009-02-22 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Buy American | Whistle Blower | Taliban Power” (S41E19). Next is “SEC Ignoring Fraud | Mexico's War | The Republican Obama” (S41E21). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Where does Lower Drinking Age | Muslim Militants | Nazi Mascot sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S41E20 is listed hour 190 of 767 — hour 20 of 33 in season 41, season 41 episode 20.

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Lower Drinking Age | Muslim Militants | Nazi Mascot aired 2009-02-22 and is listed at 60 minutes.

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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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