Saturday, November 5, 2011

Yeah, yeah, more Andy Rooney.

CBS News doesn't allow you to embed their YouTube videos into blogs, for what I assume is their attempt to kill any popular attraction to news. This means I get to use uploads from news junkies who apparently recorded 60 Minutes on Betamax. (tracking...tracking...)

Here's Andy Rooney's take from 1996 on magazines and their obsession with numbered lists.



These videos remind me of how good 60 Minutes was at its peak. Mike Wallace, Ed Bradley, Morley Safer, Harry Reasoner, Lesley Stahl. I don't expect you to know any of these people--that's because my soul found a fissure in the space-time continuum and is actually from 1947. But those people weren't creampuff bottle blondes or Grade A American Man Meat news anchors (hell, Morley Safer looks like he's made of wax and was left out in the sun too long), but they really could do a news piece.

Put another way: if Mike Wallace or Ed Bradley showed up at your front door for an interview, that was a sign you'd end up in jail within six months.

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