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Article: The struggle at 60: what 60 Minutes does matters. But this season it has fallen short of the standard set by its legendary (and aging) staff. Can the program reinvent itself?
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- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 2005
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Those who hold out hope that CBS's venerable newsmagazine 60 Minutes will forever retain its position as the gold standard for TV news must not have been pleased on the night of November 28, 2004, when the correspondent Steve Kroft delivered his profile of the actor Dustin Hoffman.
"In Hollywood there are actors, there are stars, and there are icons," Kroft said by way of introduction, in a bit of writing that belied the fifty-nine-year-old correspondent's stellar reputation as a wordsmith. "There aren't many of them, but Dustin Hoffman's one of them." He went on to declare, in a particularly egregious bit of hyperbole, that "it is not easy to think of another ...
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... ... Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft is often found chatting up the ... always been my local," said Mr. Kroft. On Sept. 10, owner Lynn Wagenknecht ... Turner and Aida Turturro. Mr. Kroft was among the first to arrive ...
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