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The [[Long Runners|longest-running]] [[Prime Time News]] show, ''60 Minutes'' has been shown every Sunday night on [[CBS]] since 1968. Known for the concluding segment in which [[Grumpy Old Man]] Andy Rooney used to complain about whatever ticked him off this week until his October 2011 retirement and passing in the next month.

 

 

''60 Minutes'' remains a bastion of actually good reporting in the increasingly-barren wasteland of US network TV news. Aside from the [[Never Live It Down|debacle with Bush's service record]] (though that involved former sister program ''60 Minutes '''II''''' and not the mother show; ''II'' got canceled after awhile) and a story about the tobacco industry tamped down by [[Executive Meddling|CBS's outgoing owner]] which inspired the 1999 film ''[[The Insider]]'', it would be hard to accuse it of reporting on anything but real, worthwhile news, unlike most of the rest of the US [[Prime Time News]] shows. They've been particularly clear in not reporting on anything even remotely resembling a [[Missing White Woman Syndrome]] story, which the others are positively flooded with. About the only thing to criticize is [[Product Placement]] interviews involving authors of books released by sister book publisher Simon & Schuster and some shilling of actors doing films for CBS Films, but that's about as bad as it gets (and in the former case is very welcomed by book fans).