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Angry in America | Buses from the Border | Ready or Not

TV Flash files “Angry in America | Buses from the Border | Ready or Not” as hour 650 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 55, episode 8, aired 2022-11-06, 60 min.

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This leaf is S55E08: listed hour 650 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 8 of 31 in season 55. It aired 2022-11-06 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Belief in the Ballot | Pathogen X | David Sedaris” (S55E07). Next is “The Surfside Mystery | The Paper Brigade | Sona and the Kora” (S55E09). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — Angry in America | Buses from the Border | Ready or Not (S55E08)

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Angry in America – With the midterm elections days away, Bill Whitaker examines how social media platforms amplify political polarization in America. Tristan Harris, the Center for Humane Technology co-founder, argues that Facebook and Twitter rely on the revenue generated by the viral nature of angry and inflammatory posts. The essence of the problem, he says, is social media's business model.  Buses from the Border – Over the past few months, thousands of migrants from Central and South America have made the 2,000-mile journey to New York City on buses chartered and paid for by the states of Texas and Arizona and the city of El Paso. Anderson Cooper examines how New York City has been dealing with the influx of people and some of the glaring problems with the nation's asylum system that the crisis exposed.  Ready or Not – Jon Wertheim goes inside the world of preppers, those who stock up and skill up for extreme catastrophes. No longer the sole province of militants and conspiracy theorists, prepping has gone mainstream. More than 15 million Americans are prepping today, intent on surviving disasters as varied as they are frequent. Wertheim travels the country going high and low – 200 feet down, as it were, inside a decommissioned military silo turned luxury bunker – talking to a few of the millions of Americans who have joined the movement about how they prep and why.

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Where does Angry in America | Buses from the Border | Ready or Not sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S55E08 is listed hour 650 of 767 — hour 8 of 31 in season 55, season 55 episode 8.

When did 60 Minutes S55E08 air?

Angry in America | Buses from the Border | Ready or Not aired 2022-11-06 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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