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The Price of Generics | The Most Unlikely Meeting | Mark Bradford

TV Flash files “The Price of Generics | The Most Unlikely Meeting | Mark Bradford” as hour 538 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 51, episode 29, aired 2019-05-12, 60 min.

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This leaf is S51E29: listed hour 538 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 29 of 30 in season 51. It aired 2019-05-12 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Ransomware | Frontotemporal Dementia | Polar Punk” (S51E28). Next is “One Loose Thread | Rainbow Railroad | Bitcoin's Wild Ride” (S51E30). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

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Sweeping lawsuit accuses top generic drug companies, executives of fixing prices; then, crime victims get chance to confront perpetrators through special program; and, Anderson Cooper profiles Mark Bradford.

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S51E29 is listed hour 538 of 767 — hour 29 of 30 in season 51, season 51 episode 29.

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The Price of Generics | The Most Unlikely Meeting | Mark Bradford aired 2019-05-12 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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