RE: 60 minutes - Yucca Mountain

[BERNARD L COHEN <blc+@pitt.edu>]

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, George J. Vargo wrote:



> Mike is absolutely correct.  60 Minutes is entertainment and NOT news.  That

> said, I think that they have contributed significantly to public discourse

> in this country, sometimes for good, sometimes not.  The 60 Minutes

> producers know what buttons to push to get public reaction and do their job

> very well.  Some of their stories on topics such as flawed or faulty

> consumer products may have even saved some lives by getting unsafe products

> out of the marketplace.



	--Like their treatment of Alar!! How can anyone trust them after

that?