What the hell happened to "60 Minutes?"

[Archae]

They used to do good investigative pieces.

Nowadays?

Celebrity and politician fluff.

Tonight?

The whole show is a promo for the "I killed Bin Laden" guy's book.

[hollysmom]

1. Dan Rather

Challenge the media and they will ruin you.

[MH1]

2. Read the book "Rather Outspoken"

by, who else, Dan Rather.

Your question is answered in the first two chapters.

[valerief]

3. I thought it was now called, "Not Even the Time of Day."

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. CBS and the other networks USED TO do hardhitting documentaries

"Harvest of Shame," about the living conditions of migrant workers, ran on CBS. There was a series called CBS Reports and another called NBC White Paper, both of which were a lot like Frontline is today.

How far the Big Three have fallen. All the original 60 Minutes team, all of them reporters who remembered those days, are dead now. Mike Wallace was the last of them, following Ed Bradley, Eric Sevareid, and Harry Reasoner, not to mention Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow. All of them got their start during or shortly after World War II.

I have completely stopped watching what passes for "news" on mainstream TV. It's all celebrity gossip, sensationalism, and cute "human interest" stories. Local news is the worst: ten minutes of fluff, ten minutes or weather, ten minutes of sports. I watch only when there's a possibility of a tornado or a blizzard heading toward Minneapolis.

[Freddie]

5. Local news in Philly

How many shootings and how many of them died, the Eagles, and weather

[cbayer]

6. Lara Logan.

[amb123]

7. Creator Don Hewitt died and so did Mike Wallace.

It's been downhill ever since.