Sunday's "60 Minutes" profile on CBS was about the best thing to happen to Albert Pujols in the early days of the 2011 season. The story, reported by veteran CBS newsman Bob Simon, didn't cover much new ground for Cardinals fans familiar with Pujols' benevolence. It was nice to see him receive overdue national attention for his charitable deeds.
A week ago this morning, the "STOCK Act" was a fairly typical piece of legislation. Almost nobody had ever heard of it. But that was before "60 Minutes" aired a piece last Sunday night that showed members of Congress from both parties apparently trading stocks on the basis of insider knowledge -- and getting away with it.
NEW YORK - Andy Rooney so dreaded the day he had to end his signature "60 Minutes" commentaries about life's large and small absurdities that he kept going until he was 92 years old. Even then, he said he wasn't retiring. Writers never retire. But his life after the end of "A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney" was short: He died Friday night, according to CBS, only a month after delivering his 1,097th and final televised commentary.
FORT LEE, N.J., Dec. 5, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke was a guest on '60 Minutes' this evening and the National Inflation Association - http://inflation.us - felt it was important to address Bernanke's comments. Bernanke claims to be concerned primarily about two things: unemployment and deflation. Bernanke says between the economic peak and the end of last year, 8.5 million jobs in America were lost with only 1 million jobs being regained since then. He says it could take 4 to 5 years for the U.S. to get back to a "more normal unemployment rate of 5% or 6%".
President Barack Obama doesn't suffer from amnesia, but apparently he hopes the public does. In his latest in a series of interviews on "60 Minutes" last Sunday night, the president took positions that are the polar opposite of what he was saying as recently as last spring.
Thomas McEneny of Ringwood, a veteran CBS News editor, died Sunday of a heart attack while finishing his first "60 Minutes" assignment -- that evening's report on cycling star Lance Armstrong. He was 57. The New York native joined CBS News in its message center in 1976. He rose to editor for the "CBS Evening News" and also worked on segments for "Sunday Morning" and "48 Hours." He won a 2006 Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association.
NEW YORK -- Don Hewitt, a TV news pioneer who created "60 Minutes" and produced the popular CBS newsmagazine for 36 years, died Wednesday. He was 86. He died of pancreatic cancer at his Bridgehampton home, CBS said. His death came a month after that of fellow CBS legend Walter Cronkite. Hewitt joined CBS News in television's infancy in 1948, and produced the first televised presidential debate in 1960.
CBS should be ashamed that "60 Minutes" provided a national forum for Andrew Madoff's fiancee, Catherine Hooper, to promote her new "tell-all" book. Ms. Hooper is clearly a gold digger of the worst kind, using her connection with Madoff's son to entice Andrew Madoff and his mother, Ruth, to spill the beans in her book and make herself a very wealthy woman.
She might as well have been singing "they tried to save my life but I said 'no, no, no.' And so, less than five years later, Amy Winehouse is dead.
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