1968 was one of the 20th century’s most pivotal years. In January, the United States was knocked on its heels by the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, a massive attack by the Hanoi-directed Viet Cong guerilla army. Though a military failure, it brought home to America that the war was unwinnable. For a people long accustomed to military victory, such an
The Clock’s Ticking On “60 Minutes”
An absence of journalistic due diligence, or maybe just outright disregard for it, stands at least partly to blame for the decline of the once-venerable “60 Minutes.”