History Series / SixtyMinutes

** The most well-known example was ''60 Minutes II'', a 1999-2005 show which aired mainly on Wednesdays or Fridays. Though done in by the controversy mentioned above, many of the current correspondents, including Scott Pelley and Lara Logan had their start on ''II''.

''60 Minutes'' remains a bastion of actually good reporting in the increasingly-barren wasteland of US network TV news. Aside from rare debacles[[note]]namely the [[NeverLiveItDown incident with George W. Bush's military service record]] (though that involved former sister program ''60 Minutes '''II''''' and not the mother show; ''II'' got canceled after awhile) and a story about the tobacco industry tamped down by [[ExecutiveMeddling CBS's outgoing owner]] which inspired the 1999 film ''Film/TheInsider''[[/note]] it would be hard to accuse it of reporting on anything but real, worthwhile news, unlike most of the rest of the US PrimeTimeNews shows. They've been particularly clear in not reporting on anything even remotely resembling a MissingWhiteWomanSyndrome story, which the others are positively flooded with.[[note]]That is the bread and butter of its sister program, ''48 Hours''.[[/note]] About the only thing to criticize is ProductPlacement interviews involving authors of books released by sister book publisher Simon & Schuster and some shilling of actors doing films for CBS Films, but that's about as bad as it gets usually. The former got them in trouble in November 2013, when a story about the 2012 Libyan embassy attack involving a witness who published a book with S&S described what he saw, but didn't actually see many of the events, was rushed to air and ended with the book pulled, and the producer of the story and correspondent Lara Logan taking a leave of absence in the aftermath after an apology which some found lacking.

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