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Residents of Belle Harbor, NY | High-Tech Capable Employees | David McCullough

TV Flash files “Residents of Belle Harbor, NY | High-Tech Capable Employees | David McCullough” as hour 311 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 45, episode 7, aired 2012-11-11, 60 min.

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This leaf is S45E07: listed hour 311 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 7 of 30 in season 45. It aired 2012-11-11 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Partisan U.S. Senate Gridlock | Historian David McCullough | Football Player Aaron Rodgers” (S45E06). Next is “An Immigration & Customs Enforcement Investigation | Infant Morality | College Football Programs” (S45E08). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Where does Residents of Belle Harbor, NY | High-Tech Capable Employees | David McCullough sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S45E07 is listed hour 311 of 767 — hour 7 of 30 in season 45, season 45 episode 7.

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Residents of Belle Harbor, NY | High-Tech Capable Employees | David McCullough aired 2012-11-11 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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