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Encryption | Aid in Dying | Starchitect

TV Flash files “Encryption | Aid in Dying | Starchitect” as hour 422 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 48, episode 24, aired 2016-03-13, 60 min.

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This leaf is S48E24: listed hour 422 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 24 of 37 in season 48. It aired 2016-03-13 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Prime Minister Trudeau | King of Coal | Death Row in Livingston Texas” (S48E23). Next is “Presidente Marci | Cornel West | The Resurrection of St. Benedict's” (S48E25). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Encryption - The war on terror has created a privacy versus security debate across the world -- including in Europe, site of the Paris attacks, where one thing investigators are looking into is a texting app favored by ISIS that features encryption. Aid in Dying - She was young, beautiful and terminally ill with a brain tumor so invasive and painful she chose to end her life in what advocates call "Death with Dignity." The prescription for the lethal dose of barbiturates Brittany Maynard took was written by Dr. Eric Walsh of Oregon, where the protocol has been legal for 18 years. Starchitect - On 60 Minutes this week, "starchitect" Bjarke Ingels reveals the model of the stadium where the Washington Redskins football team will be playing soon -- complete with a moat for tailgating kayakers.

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Where does Encryption | Aid in Dying | Starchitect sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S48E24 is listed hour 422 of 767 — hour 24 of 37 in season 48, season 48 episode 24.

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Encryption | Aid in Dying | Starchitect aired 2016-03-13 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.

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Filed by Vivian Cross · The Carpet Report · Show package

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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