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28 Pages | Rising in the East | Switching Teams

TV Flash files “28 Pages | Rising in the East | Switching Teams” as hour 426 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 48, episode 28, aired 2016-04-10, 60 min.

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This leaf is S48E28: listed hour 426 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 28 of 37 in season 48. It aired 2016-04-10 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “German Prison Rehabilatation | Choreographer Christopher Wheeldon | Golfer Bubba Watson” (S48E27). Next is “Not Paid | Hacking Your Phone” (S48E29). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — 28 Pages | Rising in the East | Switching Teams (S48E28)

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Attempts to declassify a top-secret report that might show Saudi support for some of the 9/11 hijackers; China's film industry; swimmer Schuyler Bailar, the first transgender male athlete to compete in a NCAA Division I men's sport.

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Where does 28 Pages | Rising in the East | Switching Teams sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S48E28 is listed hour 426 of 767 — hour 28 of 37 in season 48, season 48 episode 28.

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28 Pages | Rising in the East | Switching Teams aired 2016-04-10 and is listed at 60 minutes.

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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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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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