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Florida's Amendment 4 | The Wall | Sir David

TV Flash files “Florida's Amendment 4 | The Wall | Sir David” as hour 577 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 53, episode 2, aired 2020-09-27, 60 min.

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This leaf is S53E02: listed hour 577 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 2 of 36 in season 53. It aired 2020-09-27 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Battle for the Ballot | H.R. McMaster | Coach O and the Sideways Season” (S53E01). Next is “Fire! | Talent on the Spectrum | Seinfeld in 2020” (S53E03). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — Florida's Amendment 4 | The Wall | Sir David (S53E02)

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Florida's Amendment 4 – Lesley Stahl reports on the legal and political fight over the voting rights of 1.4 million felons in the crucial swing state of Florida.  The Wall  – Sharyn Alfonsi investigates how a company with a checkered past convinced the Trump administration to give it billions in border wall contracts.  Sir David – The wildlife filmmaker Sir David Attenborough warns in his latest documentary that humanity has committed a crime against the natural world by causing climate change. Anderson Cooper reports.

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Where does Florida's Amendment 4 | The Wall | Sir David sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S53E02 is listed hour 577 of 767 — hour 2 of 36 in season 53, season 53 episode 2.

When did 60 Minutes S53E02 air?

Florida's Amendment 4 | The Wall | Sir David aired 2020-09-27 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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