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Active Shooter | Common Enemy | The Future of Money

TV Flash files “Active Shooter | Common Enemy | The Future of Money” as hour 407 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 48, episode 9, aired 2015-11-22, 60 min.

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This leaf is S48E09: listed hour 407 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 9 of 37 in season 48. It aired 2015-11-22 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Paris Attacks | The Speaker of the House | Football and the Brain” (S48E08). Next is “The Last Prisoner | The Execution of Joseph Wood | Taking on the Eiger” (S48E10). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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The terror attacks in Paris have prompted police departments to train officers and members of the public how to respond and stay alive during a shooting; the battle against Islamic State group; a cellphone-based payment system in Kenya.

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Where does Active Shooter | Common Enemy | The Future of Money sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S48E09 is listed hour 407 of 767 — hour 9 of 37 in season 48, season 48 episode 9.

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Active Shooter | Common Enemy | The Future of Money aired 2015-11-22 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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