On AlterNet: 60 minutes

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "60 minutes"

An Open Letter to CBS' 60 Minutes Following Its Pitch for More Corporate Handouts

Rose Ann DeMoro, AlterNet. March 30, 2011.

Under the veneer of exploring tax havens, a March 27 segment came across as a justification for corporations that fail to pay taxes.

The Delusional People Who Want to Frack This Country Up

James Howard Kunstler, Kunstler.com. November 15, 2010.

The lying starts at the very top in this country, exhibit A being the grand idea that we can run our cars on U.S. reserves of natural gas.

Why Just About Everything You Hear About California's Water Crisis Is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong

Yasha Levine, AlterNet. January 8, 2010.

The media and the governor are warning of the "worst drought in history" in California We're being lied to.

'60 Minutes' Flubs California Water Story

Holly Doremus, Legal Planet. January 4, 2010.

Their story is demonstrably false on at least two different levels.

'60 Minutes' Blows it on Coal Segment

Tara Lohan, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. April 27, 2009.

They missed the boat entirely. Coal isn't the answer to our climate woes, it is the problem.

Obama: Close Gitmo, Ban Torture to 'Regain America's Moral Stature'

Staff, Huffington Post AlterNet: Video. November 16, 2008.

Obama 60 Minutes interview: talks national security, financial crisis, first dog.

Woodward: Bush Doesn't Get Why Iraqis Aren't Appreciative of Liberation

Ben Armbruster, ThinkProgress AlterNet: Video. September 9, 2008.

From Woodward's 60 Minutes interview about his new book, "The War Within."

Plumpynut: The Miracle Food to Cure Malnutrition Worldwide?

Brave New Films, Brave New Films AlterNet: Video. August 1, 2008.

A possible breakthrough in the fight against hunger.

Innocent Man Released from Prison After 26 Years, Two Lawyers Kept His Innocence Secret

The Innocence Project, The Innocence Blog AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. April 22, 2008.

Attorneys waited for their client's death before admitting he was the real killer in the murder that sent Alton Logan to prison for half his life.

The Murat Kurnaz Story: An Innocent Man Tortured at Gitmo Tells All [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. March 31, 2008.

An innocent man held as a terror detainee for years talks about how Americans tortured him in Afghanistan and Gitmo.

Al Gore Launches $300 Million Climate Change Initiative, Meanwhile Bush Keeps Torturing

Scarecrow, Firedoglake AlterNet: PEEK. March 31, 2008.

Two contrasting stories on CBS' 60 Minutes illustrated for the hundredth time why selecting the right person for President matters.

FCC Probes Local Alabama Censorship of "60 Minutes" Don Siegelman Story [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Democracy and Elections. March 10, 2008.

Why did "60 Minutes'" expose of how Karl Rove destroyed Don Siegelman's career not appear in its entirety on local Alabama stations?

Parts of "60 Minutes" Don Siegelman Story Blocked in Alabama

Larisa Alexandrovna, Huffington Post AlterNet: PEEK. February 25, 2008.

Are they trying to tell us that a glitch in New York ONLY happened in Alabama and ONLY during the Don Siegelman segment? Are you kidding me?

FBI Agent Contradicts Right Wing Narrative, Says Saddam Viewed Bin Laden as a Threat [VIDEO]

Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. January 28, 2008.

George Piro, who interrogated Saddam for 7 months, says the Saddam considered Bin Laden "a threat to him and his regime."

Butts on Parade: When Roger Clemens Met 60 Minutes' Mike Wallace

Dave Zirin, AlterNet. January 8, 2008.

Dealing with steroids accusations, Roger Clemens got a taste of the flammable hypocrisy that burns athletes when their careers cross with drugs.

US Consciously Kills Civilians In Afghanistan

Scarecrow, AlterNet: PEEK. October 29, 2007.

Scarecrow: There's a "macabre kind of calculus" about whether the "target" was "worth" the likely number of civilian deaths.

Valerie Plame on "60 Minutes": "The President Is Not a Man Of His Word" [VIDEO]

Logan Murphy, AlterNet: Video. October 22, 2007.

To the end, the Wilsons held strong to the truth and never backed down, even when the CIA made it difficult for her to publish her own book on the events, Fair Game, eventually redacting 10% of it.

Lou Dobbs Challenges The Great Objectivity Scam

David Sirota, AlterNet: PEEK. May 7, 2007.

David Sirota: Would you rather get your news from those who admit their biases or those who claim they have none?

Et tu, Katie Couric?

David Sirota, AlterNet: Video. March 26, 2007.

David Sirota: Taking cues from Limbaugh, Couric grills Edwards