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Maria Butina | The Battle of Brexit | The Wright Way

TV Flash files “Maria Butina | The Battle of Brexit | The Wright Way” as hour 545 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 52, episode 6, aired 2019-11-03, 60 min.

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This leaf is S52E06: listed hour 545 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 6 of 36 in season 52. It aired 2019-11-03 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Joe Biden | The Emerald Triangle | Giant Panda” (S52E05). Next is “Jamie Dimon | Dimon in Detroit | Targeting the Truth” (S52E07). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — Maria Butina | The Battle of Brexit | The Wright Way (S52E06)

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Lesley Stahl interviews Maria Butina; Then, three years later, Britain is still battling over Brexit; And, meet the family that dominates competitive saddle bronc riding.

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S52E06 is listed hour 545 of 767 — hour 6 of 36 in season 52, season 52 episode 6.

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Maria Butina | The Battle of Brexit | The Wright Way aired 2019-11-03 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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