60 Minutes

Bergman had made a promised with Dr. Wigand, that if he stood up, 60 Minutes would interview him. When CBS decided to remove Wigand's story before it aired, Bergman uncovered that the cause was that there was a lawsuit launched by the tobacco industry against the network. The network became a cowardice under all of the stress, theorizing that airing the interview would welcome a multimillion-dollar lawsuit from Brown & Williamson and danger its pending sale to the Westinghouse Electric Corporation. So like Wigand, Bergman became a mutineer to force CBS into running the segment (The Insider). Here’s a quote from Bergman during this crisis, "I told them that I was going to make sure the story got out . . . I didn't tell them what I was going to do or how I was going to do it" (Whistle-blower Lowell Bergman: an insider's view of '60…

Description: The 60 Minute show centers around the ongoing issues with the police force of the Cleveland Division. Bill Whitaker interviews Chief Williams, the chief of the Cleveland Division, where Whitaker asks Chief Williams a series of questions involving the conduct of the Cleveland Division police along with questions concerning the public’s view of the division. The report concentrates itself around three main topics: police brutality, public response, and a racial imbalance between those…

September 8, 2004, CBS’ program “60 Minutes” aired a story reporting that President George W. Bush’s preferential treatment from the Texas Air National Guard allowed him to go AWOL during the Vietnam War. Not only did the report claim that Bush abandoned his war duties, but that he also left to pursue a political career instead. 1The story was led by news anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes who were accompanied by other journalists. Rather and Mapes had found holes in President Bush’s…

60 Minutes: “Fintech” On May 1, 2016, 60 Minutes aired the interview of Lesley Stahl with Patrick Collinson, one of the founders of Fintech. Collinson works with his brother, John collinson, to develop Fintech, a company that allows easy access to banking for consumers. The two had experience a lengthy process with banks when they wanted to charge people for their apps; the process consisted of filing an abundance of paperwork and waiting and interminable amount of time for the bank’s replies.…

1. Why do you want to be a Lead Consultant? Being a lead consultant would allow me to better my team, myself and next year’s associate consultants. I know that I have what it takes to lead a team at SOURCE. As an ESTJ, I live for organization and deadlines. I love to updates calendars, make agendas and create timelines. Two of my greatest strengths are organizing others’ ideas and thinking of pragmatic approaches to big ideas. I know that having this personality type would allow me to create…

The 1:3 principle means that every meeting should have a specific, ONE-sentence purpose, and it should have no more than THREE desired outcomes. If you need to get more than three outcomes from a single meeting, you need to schedule another meeting. KEY 2: Timing Always start your meetings exactly on time and stop five minutes before the scheduled end time. Why stop five minutes early? The reason most people show up late for meetings is because they are booked back to back. If you were an…

Agenda For each meeting, you need to decide who the most critical people are who need to be there. Without an agenda, you can’t possibly know who should be at the meeting. Consequently, an effective meeting starts with the agenda. Before the meeting decide: what you want to cover, what order you will present each agenda item, and how many minutes you will spend on each one. Get good at letting people know they don’t always have to attend every meeting. You don’t need your lab technician to be…

out in cheers and applause upon the bill’s approval. Upon researching it later, I learned this would affect over 2,000 service employees of “city-subsidized” buildings, including universities and hospitals. Following the conclusion of the agenda items were some additional resolutions, all unanimously passing, and speeches made by council members. 2. Critical Evaluation of the Meeting Although the historic interior was as impressive and grand as I had hoped it would be, I was surprised the…

We have not yet determined a suitable time for us to meet that fits best with our schedules. If one group members cannot be present, it is still important to hold meetings. In the case that someone is absent, someone will take meeting minutes and forward it out to the group in an email. If our schedules do not align and we cannot ever hold in-person meetings, we will communicate through technology including email, GroupMe, and Google Docs. It will be very difficult to find a time to meet that…

For Coca-Cola, its boundaries have undergone a substantial transformation as a result of organizational acquisitions. For example, the Coca-Cola Company acquired Minute Maid in 1960 (“The Minute Maid Company History,” n.d.). In 1993, the Coca-Cola Company acquired Thums Up -- a spicy cola beverage company that originated in India (“20 Years Later: A Look Back at Coke’s Dramatic 1993 Return to India, 2013”). Two years later, they acquired the root-beer beverage company Barq’s Incorporated…