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Elitist Reverse Racism? (Commentary - The Post Chronicle)

Thu, 29 May 2008 16:54:41 GMT

In an interview with Steve Kroft of CBS "60 Minutes," Michelle Obama indicated that she didn't worry about assassination since Barack Obama, being a black man, could be shot just going to a gas station......

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Exonerated, Foreclosures, Millenials (CBS News)

Mon, 26 May 2008 01:18:04 GMT

Correspondent Bob Simon reports that after 26 years of keeping silent while an innocent man lies in prison...a secret is unveiled, by two attorneys who say they always knew the truth. Correspondent Steve Kroft deals a House of Cards in Stockton, CA, which remains the nation's foreclosure capital with more than 6,000 houses in default and foreclosure. Meanwhile, Morley Safer says, make...

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Exotic Species, Bon Jovi (CBS News)

Sun, 18 May 2008 23:32:18 GMT

Bob Simon didn't stumble upon the Garden of Eden -- he flew there, to one of the most untouched places on earth. Steve Kroft didn't travel quite as far for his story, but he did go to New Jersey. He spoke to rock n' roll superstar Jon Bon Jovi. Meanwhile Andy Rooney reports from his desk, about his desk. That's on this week's 60 Minutes.

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CBS Picks Up RFK Award (MediaBistro.com)

Fri, 16 May 2008 16:04:31 GMT

The 60 Minutes report, "Evidence of Injustice," will be awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Award on May 27 for Domestic Television. It will be the second award for the 60 Minutes-Washington Post joint investigation, by Steve Kroft , Ira Rosen and John Solomon . The first was the Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Professional Journalists. The RFK Television judges...

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Jon Bon Jovi tells "60 Minutes" what keeps him going: "You want to be the best" (Orlando Sentinel)

Fri, 16 May 2008 14:15:35 GMT

Jon Bon Jovi explains the secret of his success in a "60 Minutes" interview Sunday. Enthusiasm keeps him going. "You'd think why would I beat myself up like that after 25 years?" Bon Jovi tells Steve Kroft. "Because you want...

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CBS's Kroft: Chiquita Banana’s ‘Reputation Splattered in Blood’ (NewsBusters)

Mon, 12 May 2008 17:15:55 GMT

On Sunday's CBS "60 Minutes," Steve Kroft suggested that the American-based Chiquita Banana company was in league with Colombian terrorist groups after paying extortion money to such groups to protect its employees: "It made millions growing bananas there, only to emerge with its reputation splattered in blood, after acknowledging that it had paid nearly $2 million in protection money...

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Chiquita; Detention; Alec Baldwin (CBS News)

Mon, 12 May 2008 01:02:58 GMT

Steve Kroft speaks with Chiquita Brand International about why the Banana Company paid millions of dollars in protection money to a murderous military group in Columbia in order to protect employees. More than 300,000 immigrants are now being placed in detention centers in America, but as Scott Pelley investigates, medical treatment is lagging. Morely Safer speaks with actor Alec Baldwin...

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60 Minutes' Steve Kroft Speaks on Clarence Thomas Interview; Leaves a Few Questions Unanswered (tampabay.com blogs)

Thu, 01 May 2008 21:34:44 GMT

One of the treats of the conference on covering race that I'm attending here at Columbia University, was a chance to hear 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft talk about one of his most controversial interviews in recent memory: his Sept....

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The Military-Petroleum Complex (Human Security Gateway: All Updates)

Thu, 01 May 2008 19:33:40 GMT

In November 2002, before the invasion of Iraq, then secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld told Steve Kroft of CBS that U.S. saber-rattling toward Iraq had “nothing to do with oil, literally nothing to do with oil.” In 2003, Rumsfeld called the assertion that the United States had invaded Iraq to get at its oil “utter nonsense.” (“We don't take our forces and go around the world and try...

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Iraq Corruption, Cancer, Youth Orchestra (CBS News)

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:22:50 GMT

Steve Kroft follows up with Iraq's anti-corruption judge; Leslie Stahl reports the latest breakthrough in the fight against cancer is of the do-it-yourself variety; and Bob Simon profiles the National Youth Orchestra. Those stories, plus Andy Rooney, on this week's 60 Minutes.

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Feith Showing Consistency In Blaming Others For Iraq War’s Failures (Think Progress)

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:59:16 GMT

During an interview last night on 60 Minutes with former Pentagon official and Iraq war architect Douglas Feith, CBS correspondent Steve Kroft noted two key elements that led to the rise of the Iraqi insurgency shortly after the U.S. took control in April 2003: not having enough troops to stop the widespread looting and the [...]

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Iraq war a defensive move more than retaliation for 9-11, former Pentagon official Douglas Feith tells Sunday's "60 Minutes" (Orlando Sentinel)

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 22:12:54 GMT

Want authoritative insight into why we went to war in Iraq? Look to Sunday's "60 Minutes," which offers an interview with Douglas Feith, the former undersecretary of defense for policy. Feith tells Steve Kroft that the invasion of Iraq was...

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Hillary on 60 Minutes: 'Voters Are Tired of People Who Lie to Them' (NewsBusters)

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:28:58 GMT

Now that the major media have acknowledged en masse that Hillary Clinton lied shamelessly about landing in Bosnia to sniper fire, it seemed like the right moment to remember Mrs. Clinton’s claims about honesty and truthfulness in the famous Steve Kroft 60 Minutes interview in 1992 – not the part that aired in 1992, mind you, but a different set of snippets that aired on February 1, 1998,...

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Dennis Quaid; Sleep (CBS News)

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:50:00 GMT

Dennis Quaid's newborn twins nearly died when they were mistakenly given a drug overdose. The actor and his wife tell Steve Kroft their story. In a double segment, Lesley Stahl reports on the science of sleep.

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