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Freight Expectations | Andrew Sullivan | The Get Back Sessions

TV Flash files “Freight Expectations | Andrew Sullivan | The Get Back Sessions” as hour 620 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 54, episode 9, aired 2021-11-14, 60 min.

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This leaf is S54E09: listed hour 620 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 9 of 31 in season 54. It aired 2021-11-14 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Missouri's New Gun Law | The Longest-Running Oil Spill | Carnegie Heroes” (S54E08). Next is “Reimagining Police | Supersonic | Caligula's Gardens” (S54E10). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — Freight Expectations | Andrew Sullivan | The Get Back Sessions (S54E09)

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Freight Expectations – Millions of dollars' worth of goods that Americans have ordered are stuck on giant cargo ships, waiting for a place to dock at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. It's an epic logjam that threatens to derail the holiday season. Bill Whitaker reports from the ground zero of the supply chain crunch, where cargo from Asia has been piling up in record amounts at the docks.  Andrew Sullivan – The British American conservative author and editor warns America's democracy is endangered because today's citizens cannot separate politics from life. Scott Pelley reports.  The Get Back Sessions – Rock music's greatest divorce, the breakup of the Beatles in 1970, was always associated with the film and album "Let It Be." Half a century later, dozens of hours of that film left on the cutting room floor tell a different story. 60 MINUTES will show some of it for the first time, revealing an intimacy and creative bond between the four musicians that belies the long-held narrative. Jon Wertheim reports.

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S54E09 is listed hour 620 of 767 — hour 9 of 31 in season 54, season 54 episode 9.

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Freight Expectations | Andrew Sullivan | The Get Back Sessions aired 2021-11-14 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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