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The State of the Navy | "Only in America"

TV Flash files “The State of the Navy | "Only in America"” as hour 664 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 55, episode 22, aired 2023-03-19, 60 min.

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This leaf is S55E22: listed hour 664 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 22 of 31 in season 55. It aired 2023-03-19 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Please Let Me Die | Who is Minding the Chatbots? | David Byrne” (S55E21). Next is “Feeling of Feeling | Silicon Valley Scandal | Charles Barkley” (S55E23). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — The State of the Navy | "Only in America" (S55E22)

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The State of the Navy – As U.S.-China relations remain tense, Norah O'Donnell goes aboard the USS Nimitz, a United States Navy aircraft carrier operating southeast of Taiwan and China in the Western Pacific. With rare access to the ship and its officers during a deployment, O'Donnell reports on the state of the Navy amid threats of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan – an important American ally. O'Donnell speaks with the Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Admiral Samuel Paparo, at sea and Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Mike Gilday, at the Pentagon. The report includes a candid discussion of U.S. contingency planning for Taiwan and how the U.S. is attempting to maintain readiness while keeping up with China's rapid and remarkable naval and military build-up. This is a double-length segment. "Only in America" – Sharyn Alfonsi profiles billionaire businessman Rocco Commisso, who went from a town in southern Italy to growing up in the Bronx to running an ultra-successful cable TV empire and ultimately buying a pro soccer team. Alfonsi meets Commisso in the Bronx and follows his American dream that takes them all the way to an AC Fiorentina game in Florence, Italy.

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S55E22 is listed hour 664 of 767 — hour 22 of 31 in season 55, season 55 episode 22.

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The State of the Navy | "Only in America" aired 2023-03-19 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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