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Reality Winner | China's Next Revolution? | Gucci

TV Flash files “Reality Winner | China's Next Revolution? | Gucci” as hour 623 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 54, episode 12, aired 2021-12-05, 60 min.

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This leaf is S54E12: listed hour 623 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 12 of 31 in season 54. It aired 2021-12-05 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Hazing | Saving The Mountain Gorillas| Rita Moreno” (S54E11). Next is “Negotiating with the Taliban | Let There Be Light | An Island Off an Island” (S54E13). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — Reality Winner | China's Next Revolution? | Gucci (S54E12)

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Reality Winner: Reality Winner, a former NSA contractor/linguist, tells Scott Pelley she leaked classified documents to the media to honor her pledge of service to the American people. This is her first television interview since being released from a four-year prison term, the longest sentence ever imposed on a civilian for leaking classified information to the media. China's Next Revolution?: Is President Xi Jinping undoing capitalism in China? In the last 40 years, China has become the only global economy to rival the U.S. But President Xi is cracking down on some of the private sectors, companies, and individuals that led to the country's prosperity. Lesley Stahl reports.  Gucci: Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele tells Sharyn Alfonsi about his provocative designs, why he likes ugly things, and how he introduced "beautiful strangeness" into the Gucci brand.

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Where does Reality Winner | China's Next Revolution? | Gucci sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S54E12 is listed hour 623 of 767 — hour 12 of 31 in season 54, season 54 episode 12.

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Reality Winner | China's Next Revolution? | Gucci aired 2021-12-05 and is listed at 60 minutes.

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Filed by Vivian Cross · The Carpet Report · Show package

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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