60 Minutes
The College Test | Exhume the Truth | Three Empty Chairs
TV Flash files “The College Test | Exhume the Truth | Three Empty Chairs” as hour 572 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 52, episode 33, aired 2020-06-14, 60 min.
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This leaf is S52E33: listed hour 572 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 33 of 36 in season 52. It aired 2020-06-14 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Nation in Crisis | A Long Siege | Failure to Protect” (S52E32). Next is “Chief Arradondo | The Opioid Playbook” (S52E34). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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The College Test – John Dickerson reports on the challenge to colleges and students as the institutions prepare to reopen in the fall amid the still-present pandemic. Exhume the Truth – History has largely ignored the Greenwood Massacre, a two-day assault in 1921 on a thriving black community in Tulsa, Okla., in which an estimated 300 people – mostly African American men, women, and children – were killed. Scott Pelley reports on a community trying to uncover the facts and the bodies in what's been called the worst race riot in American history. Three Empty Chairs – The Merit Systems Protection Board gives two million federal civil service workers – including whistleblowers – a place to appeal should they be disciplined, demoted, or fired. As Norah O'Donnell reports, the board now has a backlog of nearly 2,900 cases, because of the failure of the Senate to confirm any new members to the board in over eight years.
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Where does The College Test | Exhume the Truth | Three Empty Chairs sit in the 60 Minutes guide?
S52E33 is listed hour 572 of 767 — hour 33 of 36 in season 52, season 52 episode 33.
When did 60 Minutes S52E33 air?
The College Test | Exhume the Truth | Three Empty Chairs aired 2020-06-14 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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- 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
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- Diane Sawyer as Correspondent
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Also in season 52
- S52E01 The Impeachment Inquiry | Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman | Great White Sharks
- S52E02 The Impeachment Debate | The Ranger and the Serial Killer | The Farmer's Advocate
- S52E03 Hong Kong | Nadia | Psychedelic Science
- S52E04 Tree of Life | Madame Lagarde | The Columbus Letters
- S52E05 Joe Biden | The Emerald Triangle | Giant Panda
- S52E06 Maria Butina | The Battle of Brexit | The Wright Way