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Strike-through | Fintech | The Children's Village

TV Flash files “Strike-through | Fintech | The Children's Village” as hour 429 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 48, episode 31, aired 2016-05-01, 60 min.

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This leaf is S48E31: listed hour 429 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 31 of 37 in season 48. It aired 2016-05-01 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Heroin Epidemic | Dialing for Dollars | Gold Star Parents” (S48E30). Next is “Russia's Dark Secret | The Killing Machine | Earthquake Alley” (S48E32). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — Strike-through | Fintech | The Children's Village (S48E31)

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Strike-through - A company accused of supplying faulty protective equipment to hospitals during the most recent Ebola outbreak also sold the equipment to the U.S. government's Strategic National Stockpile for use in future outbreaks and emergencies. Fintech - Patrick and John Collison are among a vanguard of entrepreneurs trying to make the movement of money online as easy as sending photos or videos. The young founders of Stripe, a $5 billion payments startup, appear in a Lesley Stahl report on the burgeoning industry known as "Fintech," which is challenging traditional financial institutions. The Children's Village - India Howell fell in love with Tanzania after climbing its famed Mt. Kilimanjaro. This American woman then made a life for herself there that led to new lives for 94 children who now call her "mom."

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Where does Strike-through | Fintech | The Children's Village sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S48E31 is listed hour 429 of 767 — hour 31 of 37 in season 48, season 48 episode 31.

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Strike-through | Fintech | The Children's Village aired 2016-05-01 and is listed at 60 minutes.

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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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