Did you watch '60 Minutes' tonight?

[Chipper Chat]

Neither did I.

[brucefan]

1. I'm done with 60 minutes

Until they fire Lara Logan

[pangaia]

2. 60 what?

[lostincalifornia]

3. Haven't watched it for over a year

[LibGranny]

4. Nope!

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. I did.

It was pretty good, actually.

[Shrike47]

6. Nope.

[TheDebbieDee]

7. I was pretty much finished with 60 Minutes in 1990 or 1991......

when they did a story about how apple producers were spraying insecticides on apples that was harmful to humans. The story caused public school systems across the country to cancel orders for apple juice and many store chains to cancel their orders for fresh apples. Apple producers were stuck with a crop they couldn't sell and many went out of business.

Then several weeks after 60 Minutes broadcast the story, it was found that the story was not true and that 60 Minutes had been negligent to air this story. But everything seemed to get smoothed over.....they are still on the air.

[rurallib]

10. I left before that, but that was a memorable moment

I had started watching as a kid, but had problems with it through college eventually to give up.

[truebluegreen]

16. I remember that story, and I remember this attitude of the growers and the pesticide manufacturers:

"no disease has ever been documented that stems from legal applications of pesticides..." which reminded me strongly of the assertion that "no one died because of the incident at Three Mile Island."

Both of them come from people with an agenda and as such neither is credible. Even worse, both of them are based on the premise that we know how chemicals and radiation will affect us years in the future. And, as I recall, after the Alar scare, states started passing "food libel laws" that made it a crime to question the health consequences of eating various food products. 'Cause Dog Forbid we know what we are eating and what consequences there may be....

That said, I haven't watched 60 Minutes for years and after this Lara Logan debacle (has she been fired yet?) I won't be changing that.

[eShirl]

8. It's not that I've decided to boycott it or anything,

it's just that, it's become yet another example of bad journalism in a sea of bad journalism.

That's right: not poor journalism; bad journalism.

[Paladin]

9. It's not worth watching anymore. (nt)

[Sunlei]

11. I do, they have some good episodes

http://www.cbsnews.com/60-minutes/

[blkmusclmachine]

12. Done with 'em.

[valerief]

13. I haven't watched it in decades. nt

[Warpy]

14. It didn't occur to me, actually

I rarely remember it until it's over, anyway, unless some damned football game has dragged out the time outs for the maximum amount of time to sell beer and cars.

If you want in depth news, Frontline is better. 60 Minutes got lazy by the end of the 70s.

[Enthusiast]

20. It's not lazy. They now have a clear agenda...........nt

[Va Lefty]

15. Slowly circling the toliet bowl

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

17. Nor did I. The football games were just too good, even though none of my teams won today. :(

[tomm2thumbs]

18. hope the sponsors didn't pay to put commercials on during it - what's the point?

may as well flush their money down the toilet

oh wait... they basically did

[Enthusiast]

19. I am clear done with 60 Minutes.

CBS has demonstrated that they now have an agenda which is not dissimilar to that of Fox "News".

[dawnie51]

21. I was done with CBS....

after the Dan Rather business. Whatever idiosyncrasies he had, Dan Rather was a true journalist, who for over 40 years had paid his dues and CBS, knowing he was totally right about Bush, threw him and his team under the bus to placate the GOP. I have no respect for anyone there, and don't watch. My husband can't bear ABC or NBC, and lately CNN is on his nerves, so I know he catches CBS when he can, but I refuse.

[question everything]

22. I did, and it was good

Best part was in the end, the "Mail" section, included an excellent letter from Senator Sanders, about the previous week report about philanthropy.

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/viewer-letters-on-the-giving-pledge/