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Weather and Wine | Drawing Truth to Power

TV Flash files “Weather and Wine | Drawing Truth to Power” as hour 626 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 54, episode 15, aired 2021-12-26, 60 min.

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This leaf is S54E15: listed hour 626 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 15 of 31 in season 54. It aired 2021-12-26 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “"The Beast" | America's Dirty Secret | Trevor Noah” (S54E14). Next is “The Big Quit | One Small Step | The Kicker” (S54E16). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — Weather and Wine | Drawing Truth to Power (S54E15)

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Weather and Wine – Scientists say climate change is altering the world's prime wine-growing regions. Extreme weather episodes like unusual heat and damaging frosts are upending the practices and economics of winemaking, and in some cases, changing the taste of the wine itself – from Napa Valley to Spain, Italy, and France. But the rising temperatures have also had other unforeseen effects, like in Great Britain, where the warming weather has been a boon to England's wine industry. Lesley Stahl traveled to France and Great Britain to document the impact of climate change on the great wine regions of the world. This is a two-part story.  Drawing Truth to Power – Badiucao, China's foremost political cartoonist and street artist, uses his pointed drawings to poke at Chinese President Xi Jinping and his authoritarian regime in public ways. He is best known for plastering large posters of his cartoons on walls all over Australia and Europe and online, such as a depiction of President Xi hunting for Winnie the Pooh after China censored images of the Disney character when an internet meme compared Xi's appearance to Pooh. His drawings go viral worldwide after he posts them on social media, and he has predictably drawn the ire of the Chinese government. Now exiled in Australia, Badiucao, not his real name, was forced to use colorful ski masks to disguise his identity for years. Jon Wertheim interviews China's artful dissident unmasked Sunday in this episode.

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Where does Weather and Wine | Drawing Truth to Power sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S54E15 is listed hour 626 of 767 — hour 15 of 31 in season 54, season 54 episode 15.

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Weather and Wine | Drawing Truth to Power aired 2021-12-26 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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