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Negotiating with the Taliban | Let There Be Light | An Island Off an Island

TV Flash files “Negotiating with the Taliban | Let There Be Light | An Island Off an Island” as hour 624 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 54, episode 13, aired 2021-12-12, 60 min.

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This leaf is S54E13: listed hour 624 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 13 of 31 in season 54. It aired 2021-12-12 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Reality Winner | China's Next Revolution? | Gucci” (S54E12). Next is “"The Beast" | America's Dirty Secret | Trevor Noah” (S54E14). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — Negotiating with the Taliban | Let There Be Light | An Island Off an Island (S54E13)

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Negotiating with the Taliban – When the U.S. military pulled out of Afghanistan in August, the Taliban immediately seized control. The international community acted quickly – freezing Afghan assets and foreign aid to pressure the Taliban to negotiate. To date, those negotiations haven't happened. Today, 38 million Afghans find themselves facing one of the worst humanitarian crises on the planet. Sharyn Alfonsi traveled to Afghanistan to discuss the crisis with one of the new Taliban ministers, talk with suffering families and meet with the humanitarian groups left to pick up the pieces and negotiate with the Taliban to avert a global catastrophe.  Let There Be Light – NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is the world's most expensive scientific instrument ever launched into space. At $10 billion, this complex and powerful telescope will explore distant exoplanets and see near to the beginning of time itself. Before its planned launch later this month, Scott Pelley gets an inside look at NASA's flagship space telescope. What mysteries will it help humanity unravel? And what could go wrong?  An Island Off an Island – Jon Wertheim ventures to a 90-square mile jewel of land off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. Fogo Island's population was decimated when its only industry, cod fishing, went into steep decline. Now, an eighth-generation Fogo Islander has returned home with deep pockets and a plan to bring the place and its people back

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Where does Negotiating with the Taliban | Let There Be Light | An Island Off an Island sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S54E13 is listed hour 624 of 767 — hour 13 of 31 in season 54, season 54 episode 13.

When did 60 Minutes S54E13 air?

Negotiating with the Taliban | Let There Be Light | An Island Off an Island aired 2021-12-12 and is listed at 60 minutes.

Is 1980s 60 Minutes different from today's?

The grammar is the same: multi-segment hour, stopwatch motif, investigations plus profiles. In the 1980s it frequently outrated sitcoms — proof news could dominate prime time.

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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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