"60 Minutes" has been doing this for years, but apparently hasn't gotten publicly caught. When I was in college in the mid-1980s, one of my journalism professors showed the class a video (or film?) clip of a "60 Minutes" episode of Morley Safer interviewing a man, and in some shots - while focused solely on Safer - he was wearing a certa…
"60 Minutes" has been doing this for years, but apparently hasn't gotten publicly caught. When I was in college in the mid-1980s, one of my journalism professors showed the class a video (or film?) clip of a "60 Minutes" episode of Morley Safer interviewing a man, and in some shots - while focused solely on Safer - he was wearing a certain necktie, but then in the shots of the man (being interviewed) answering Safer's questions, Safer is wearing a completely different tie. So, as our professor was pointing out to us the difference in the shots - which most students didn't notice, he was showing us how easy it is for these types of shows to do a switcheroo on the interviewee by doing post-interview edits so that it looks that the interviewee is not answering their questions correctly, and thus, it then advances whatever angle or POV the show has for that episode. And, hand to God, within a year of our class graduating, "60 Minutes" reached out to a local hospital where one of my friends and former college classmates was working in their public information office, and said they wanted to do a positive profile piece on an innovative new emergency service the hospital offered. So the hospital gave them full access to the department and was very facilitating and professional only to receive in return a hit piece by "60 Minutes" on the hospital's new service. My friend was devastated but learned an important lesson. And, in the end, "60 Minutes" was on the wrong side of history because the program is still successfully saving peoples' lives 40 years later. I never watched "60 Minutes" again since I knew I couldn't trust them to be honest.
"60 Minutes" has been doing this for years, but apparently hasn't gotten publicly caught. When I was in college in the mid-1980s, one of my journalism professors showed the class a video (or film?) clip of a "60 Minutes" episode of Morley Safer interviewing a man, and in some shots - while focused solely on Safer - he was wearing a certain necktie, but then in the shots of the man (being interviewed) answering Safer's questions, Safer is wearing a completely different tie. So, as our professor was pointing out to us the difference in the shots - which most students didn't notice, he was showing us how easy it is for these types of shows to do a switcheroo on the interviewee by doing post-interview edits so that it looks that the interviewee is not answering their questions correctly, and thus, it then advances whatever angle or POV the show has for that episode. And, hand to God, within a year of our class graduating, "60 Minutes" reached out to a local hospital where one of my friends and former college classmates was working in their public information office, and said they wanted to do a positive profile piece on an innovative new emergency service the hospital offered. So the hospital gave them full access to the department and was very facilitating and professional only to receive in return a hit piece by "60 Minutes" on the hospital's new service. My friend was devastated but learned an important lesson. And, in the end, "60 Minutes" was on the wrong side of history because the program is still successfully saving peoples' lives 40 years later. I never watched "60 Minutes" again since I knew I couldn't trust them to be honest.