CBS News (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
60 Minutes Correspondent Scott Pelley crosses over the border from Chad into Sudan in search of a boy displaced during ongoing ethnic cleansing in Darfur. 60 Minutes Correspondent Lesley Stahl reports on how one man's invention may bring researchers one step closer to finding the cure for cancer. 60 Minutes Correspondent Bob Simon reports on Venezuela's music program that is keeping kids off the streets....
SharonCobb (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
(From CBSNews ) Sunday, July 20, 2008 SEARCHING FOR JACOB - Jacob fled his village in Darfur to escape mass murder, leaving his family and schoolbooks behind. Scott Pelley puts a face on the horrible genocide in Sudan when he tracks down Jacob to return his books. Shawn Efran is the producer. THE KANZIUS MACHINE - Leukemia patient John Kanzius wants to see the promising machine he invented that kills...
CBS News (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
This week on 60 Minutes, Leslie Stahl reports on how the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy has been impacted by the war on terror, Scott Pelley reports on Remote Area Medical, an organziation bringing free medical care to millions of Americans that lack medical insurance, and finally Anderson Cooper tells the human story behind a world class athlete, soccer superstar David Beckham.
CBS News (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Iraqi Christians are in danger now more than ever. Facing harder times that under Saddam Hussein's reign, Iraqi Christians are forced to worship in secret services. 60 Minutes Correspondent Scott Pelley reports. Individuals are now able to trace their ancestry back hundreds of years using samples of DNA. 60 Minutes Correspondent Lesley Stahl reports. 60 Minutes Correspondent Steve Kroft speaks with...
SharonCobb (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
( CBS ) Sunday, June 29, 2008 THE PURGE - A Baghdad clergyman estimates that 90 percent of Iraq's Christians, once thought to number over a million, have either fled or have been murdered by Islamic extremists during the religious civil war. Scott Pelley reports. Shawn Efran and Philip Ittner are the producers. ROOTS - The new field of genetic genealogy uses DNA to trace ancestry back hundreds of years,...
CBS News (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
60 Minutes Correspondent Scott Pelley reports on the controversial U.S. sponsored Arabic news channel, Al Hura. 60 Minutes Correspondent Anderson Cooper reports on Plumpy-nut -- a breakthrough in curing malnutrition. 60 Minutes Correspondent Leslie Stahl reports on the extreme effort to get Salmon upstream and safely out of the way of dangerous dams. 60 Minutes Correspondent Andy Rooney discusses the...
Backspin (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
60 Minutes and ProPublica conducted a joint investigation of US taxpayer-funded Al-Hurra TV. It's been months since former chief Larry Register won our Worst News Executive Award for the station's anti-Israel stance; Scott Pelley reports that problems at Al-Hurra continue....
Welcome to Pottersville (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
...then all hope for this country is lost. McCain freely admits that he waffled on the Confederate flag issue then even told Scott Pelley that it was because of ambition. He said Petraeus travels around Baghdad every day in unarmed Humvees then said later that that's obviously not true, since there are no unarmed Humvees in Iraq. All without admitting that he was wrong when he told Wolf Blitzer about...
SafetyAtWorkBlog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
On 8 June 2008, a US 60 Minutes report on combustible dust joined the conga-line of critics of the Occupational Safety And Health Administration. The tone of the report is set by the reporter, Scott Pelley’s introduction stating that it is OSHA’s responsibility to avoid the explosions. For OHS practitioners and professionals this is a peculiar statement [...]
CBS News (Free subscription) | 06/09/2008
Sugar, corn and metal can cause catastrophic explosions when in dust form as Scott Pelley reports. Leslie Stahl reports on the Howard Hughes many people dont know, and the medical insititute he helped create. Byron Pitts reports on minister Joel Osteen and the "prosperity gospel" he preaches to thousands of followers.
The Pump Handle (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Set your wristwatch alarms or your VCR for this Sunday (June 7) at 7:00 pm (EST) to watch CBS’s 60 Minutes and a hard-hitting story on OSHA and its failure to protect workers and communities from combustible dust explosions. CBS’s correspondent Scott Pelley interviews Carolyn Merritt (former Member of the US Chemical Safety Board), Tammy Miser (whose brother Shawn was killed [...]
God's Politics (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Sojourners magazine scooped CBS's 60 Minutes when we interviewed Haitian author Edwidge Danticat in April about the death of her uncle, Joseph Dantica (she spells her name differently than her uncle), and about immigration issues. Watch 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley's Sunday night interview with Danticat on medical care for asylum seekers to the United States . Watch it:
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
On Sunday's CBS "60 Minutes," anchor Scott Pelley looked at the healthcare provided to illegal immigrants in U.S. detention facilities: "Before 9/11, about 100,000 detainees went through this system each year; but today, with stricter immigration rules, that number has tripled to more than 300,000. The surge appears to have overwhelmed the medical care provided to the immigrants. Now a Washington...
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Download | Play Download | Play (h/t Heather) We’ve come a long way from “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” and not in a good way. On 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley looked at the horrific conditions faced by immigrants to this country–both legal and illegal–in detention centers including almost criminal medical negligence. In [...]
NC Mental Hope News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Day 1 link to Washington Post series, including video and other. An investigation by Washington Post reporters Dana Priest and Amy Goldstein, joined by 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley, uncovers the neglectful conditions and inadequate medical treatment in a U.S. government-run prison system that has caused the deaths of some detainees. The results of the months-long investigation into the
