DGS49
Diamond Member
Tonight's show.
Feature One: A story about a fatuous, ridiculous lawsuit by leftist lawyers pretending to represent The Children, hoping to get the USSC to force The Government to end CO2 emissions by 2050 (presumably excluding emissions from human respiration). Despite their heroic efforts, 60M was unable to find a single person willing to point out the scientific, legal, and Constitutional idiocy of this case, and to reassure the viewing audience that this case has no chance whatsoever of winning anything, once it gets past the protected environs of the infamous 9th Circuit. Strike One.
Feature Two: A story telling about how the occasional Amtrak rail disasters could (essentially) all be avoided if the railroads would simply purchase and install [I think it was called] Positive Train Control, which they are required to do by law. Fair enough. The piece ends with the interviewer asking a guy who lost his job because he is alleged to have caused one of these fatal accidents whether HE thinks that AMTRAK is safe. Of course he does not. 60M failed to report the single relevant statistic in this regard, one accepted by every transportation authority in the world (allowing for metric conversion): fatalities per billion passenger miles*. Failing to cite the relevant safety statistic, and failure to compare it to, for example, personal auto travel, air travel, and bus travel, renders the piece little more than gossip.
Feature Three: A report on a school (or a program - I couldn't stand to watch the whole thing) that seeks to solve the "problem" of "not enough women professionals working in computer science ("IT")." Oddly, they did not mention exactly WHY this is a problem. Are women or young women prevented from going into STEM fields. Are they discouraged? By whom? Good heavens, girls have been encouraged to study math and science since I was in high school in the 60's. Who is preventing them from studying science and math?
Could it POSSIBLY be that girls simply have little interest, just as they have little interest in kick boxing or motocross or cock fighting or playing chess?
Sixty Minutes has long been the most popular "news" show on network television, and if this showing is representative, it publishes nothing but garbage. Lies, half truths, and propaganda. And yes, even Fake News.
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"According to a 2013 study by economist Ian Savage, trains are the second-safest mode of transportation in the U.S. Between 2000 and 2009, the number of deaths per billion passenger-miles caused by trains was 0.43. In comparison, the number of deaths caused by cars was 7.3 and the number of deaths caused by motorcycles was a disturbing 213.
But trains are still only the second-safest option, with the first-safest option being — you guess it — flying.
According to that same study, the number of deaths per billion passenger-miles caused by airplanes is a measly 0.07."
Feature One: A story about a fatuous, ridiculous lawsuit by leftist lawyers pretending to represent The Children, hoping to get the USSC to force The Government to end CO2 emissions by 2050 (presumably excluding emissions from human respiration). Despite their heroic efforts, 60M was unable to find a single person willing to point out the scientific, legal, and Constitutional idiocy of this case, and to reassure the viewing audience that this case has no chance whatsoever of winning anything, once it gets past the protected environs of the infamous 9th Circuit. Strike One.
Feature Two: A story telling about how the occasional Amtrak rail disasters could (essentially) all be avoided if the railroads would simply purchase and install [I think it was called] Positive Train Control, which they are required to do by law. Fair enough. The piece ends with the interviewer asking a guy who lost his job because he is alleged to have caused one of these fatal accidents whether HE thinks that AMTRAK is safe. Of course he does not. 60M failed to report the single relevant statistic in this regard, one accepted by every transportation authority in the world (allowing for metric conversion): fatalities per billion passenger miles*. Failing to cite the relevant safety statistic, and failure to compare it to, for example, personal auto travel, air travel, and bus travel, renders the piece little more than gossip.
Feature Three: A report on a school (or a program - I couldn't stand to watch the whole thing) that seeks to solve the "problem" of "not enough women professionals working in computer science ("IT")." Oddly, they did not mention exactly WHY this is a problem. Are women or young women prevented from going into STEM fields. Are they discouraged? By whom? Good heavens, girls have been encouraged to study math and science since I was in high school in the 60's. Who is preventing them from studying science and math?
Could it POSSIBLY be that girls simply have little interest, just as they have little interest in kick boxing or motocross or cock fighting or playing chess?
Sixty Minutes has long been the most popular "news" show on network television, and if this showing is representative, it publishes nothing but garbage. Lies, half truths, and propaganda. And yes, even Fake News.
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*
"According to a 2013 study by economist Ian Savage, trains are the second-safest mode of transportation in the U.S. Between 2000 and 2009, the number of deaths per billion passenger-miles caused by trains was 0.43. In comparison, the number of deaths caused by cars was 7.3 and the number of deaths caused by motorcycles was a disturbing 213.
But trains are still only the second-safest option, with the first-safest option being — you guess it — flying.
According to that same study, the number of deaths per billion passenger-miles caused by airplanes is a measly 0.07."
