Thursday, October 28, 2010

RA 1

Jeff Fager
Executive Producer
"60 Minutes", CBS
524 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019

Dear Jeff Fager


I remember when I was growing up, how 60 Minutes was a well-respected and hard-hitting investigative news forum, and was a staple on Sunday nights in so many homes across the country. 60 minutes has been something I have watched as a kid. I used to hate the fact that my Dad would watch the show religiously but I learned to love it. 
I think that 60 minutes does a great job at getting the truth about what is going on around the world. 60 Minutes also has a great source of getting people that are   not willing to be interviewed to get interviewed. When our country was hit by the two planes into our trade center and we lost so many great people. This made our country rely even more so on the news. Well other news told bits and pieces of what was going on with our Government and why someone would do something like this to so many innocent people. The News jumped on the fact that this was a terrorist attack and our country felt like we were on edge some people wanting to jump into war. A lot of the society had no idea about the real truth about why we were attacked and there was even controversy that we did this to ourselves. I applauded that 60 minutes was able to gain the trust of Saddam Hussein and was able to get the “first television interview, FBI Agent George Piro tells Scott Pelley how he won the confidence of Saddam Hussein and got the truth out of him in a seven-month interrogation.” This helped our society to put at least a face to this upheaval and understand what needed to be done.
I have visited 60 minutes web page and I have to say that out of many other sources of news you web page is the easiest to get around and find what you are looking for. Unlike other sources there are very few advertisements and information that is not needed in our source of information in our society. You can pull interviews from 10 years ago by your search engine When watching some of your shows I have to say you guys take the blunt approach. Unlike other news 60 minutes gets to the point and are not afraid to cross the line this what makes you guys different you are able to get the information that no one else can that is probably why  60 Minutes has the most successful programmed in US television history. Acknowledged masters of investigative reporting since 1968. Home of such broadcasting legends as Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite and Christiane Amanpour. Synonymous with blowing Watergate and Vietnam wide open on the screens of a nation. Winners of 78 Emmy Awards.
            The only thing that I was kind of disappointed with when ready your blogs on your web page that they were open to the public a lot of people were upset about some of your showings and how some of your interviewers took the wrong approach. I think that everyone is entitled to their own opinion but the reason 60 min does so well is do to the fact that they are willing to all you can to get good factual information I think that you should keep you segments the way they are and I hope this letter helps you with the positive view about 60 minutes.
Thank you for your time
Chelsey Talbott

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