60 Minutes
Inside Edge / Valerie Jarrett
TV Flash files “Inside Edge / Valerie Jarrett” as hour 432 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 48, episode 34, aired 2016-05-22, 60 min.
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This leaf is S48E34: listed hour 432 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 34 of 37 in season 48. It aired 2016-05-22 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Breakthrough Status | Collateral Damage” (S48E33). Next is “After Shock | $80 Million Con | The Last Vaquitas” (S48E35). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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Inside Edge: Roomy Khan provides a rare look inside the secretive world of insider trading. She tells how she got caught and then helped the government bring down Raj Rajaratnam -- the billionaire co-founder of one of the world's largest hedge funds. Valerie Jarrett: Blame politics, not lack of will or personality, for the president's inability to get Republicans to hold hearings on his Supreme Court nominee choice. That's what White House senior advisor and close personal friend of the Obamas, Valerie Jarrett, tells Norah O'Donnell.
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Where does Inside Edge / Valerie Jarrett sit in the 60 Minutes guide?
S48E34 is listed hour 432 of 767 — hour 34 of 37 in season 48, season 48 episode 34.
When did 60 Minutes S48E34 air?
Inside Edge / Valerie Jarrett aired 2016-05-22 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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- Mike Wallace as Correspondent
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- Morley Safer as Correspondent
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- Harry Reasoner as Correspondent
Harry Reasoner was a 60 Minutes correspondent when the stopwatch became civic theater — Hewitt's newsmagazine power, Wallace ambush, Safer and Bradley and Rooney's endnotes, Sunday night investigation that outrated sitcoms. Appointment…
- Ed Bradley as Correspondent
Ed Bradley made 60 Minutes correspondent craft look like Sunday-night theater — Hewitt's stopwatch, investigative packages that outrated sitcoms, and a presence that treated the story as a public square. Appointment news before the…
- Diane Sawyer as Correspondent
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Also in season 48
- S48E01 Vladimir Putin | Donald Trump | The Greatest Escape
- S48E02 Hands off the Wheel | Patrick Kennedy | The Hidden Holocaust
- S48E03 President Obama | 30 Years on Death Row
- S48E04 Seeking Asylum | Make-A-Wish | Revis Island
- S48E05 Vice President Biden | The New Burma | Inside the Air War
- S48E06 Heroin in the Heartland | Smart Guns | The Slave Ship