Fall of Newspapers, Rise of Misinformation | 60 Minutes Full Episodes 

0:11 The Paper (2013) 12:55 Headlines. Deadlines. Bottom Lines. (2022) 26:08 The Facebook Whistleblower (2021) 39:28 The Right to be Wrong (2024)

News for profit is where the misinformation comes from.

I've always preferred NOT being lied to

Vulture funds should be against the law with felony penalties for the board and personal responsibility.

I too, am very upset with the demise of local newspapers 😢

I miss just reading a newspaper , people used to bury their faces in in and now it’s everyone in the subways and buses deep in their phones

I worked in the corporate office for MediaNews Group MNG aka DigitalFirst Media, Alden's subsidiary and the actual owner (on paper) of all these newspapers. I assisted with the technical demands required during mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. Alden was cutthroat. They simply do not give a f*ck. Y office was not immune to cuts, as most of us were hanger-ons from The Denver Post or even The Rocky Mountain News, a fabulous newspaper that had countless Pulitzer's. I would witness these secretaries who had been with a publication for 40 years get unceremoniously dismissed with a couple months of severance, maybe. The destruction of these mid-market newspapers has had awful effects for the country; indeed, the rise in polarization and the decline of local newspapers is not just some coincidence. Alden Cap is the face of greed. It is everything that is toxic about Capitalism, and is none of the good things. Revenue growth, ideally should (eventually) result in a need for a bigger workforce. Not in this situation; it's the opposite. IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY.

I miss truthful ethical investigative journalism. RIP. Mainstream propaganda and narrative "nudging" no longer cuts it with civilians

The difference in quality between the first story (shot in 2013 by legend Morley Safer) and the second story (from 2022), tells you everything you need to know about the decline of journalism. The first is interesting, nuanced, thought provoking, relatable, balanced, just a concise report of what's happening. Second is alarmist, slow, predictable, with most interviewees sounding like out of touch idealists complaining.

The mainstream media’s behavior nowadays lost credibility and people’s trust. So they have helped cause this problem.

The rise of disinformation and “narrative reality” is one of my greatest fears for our country.

I always pictured Miss Information as a very friendly, nice-looking librarian ready to help a young man find what he was looking for.

Elimination of all documents on paper takes away from are childrens future generation. Documentation of the past. Extremely important

"When ya trust your television, whatcha get is whatcha got. 'Cause when they own the information, ohhh, they can bend it all they want." --J.M.

Education and experience assists in deviating away from misinformation. The problem is education is corrupt, and experience absent. Wisdom comes from many sources

Interesting, are you suggesting newspapers contain no misinformation?

One person's hate speech is another person's free speech. I want free speech even when it is nasty. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never harm me.

I've been getting my local Newspaper home delivered since the mid 1970s, Nothing like turning pages and the feeling of paper while reading and turning pages, Also have to keep up on the Obituaries,

With the advent of the internet, I haven't bought a newspaper, written a letter or been to a movie house.

I was a paper boy in the 90's and to me they're obsolete

The reading experience itself online doesn't satisfy. It frustrates. You cannot read a paragraph without ads jumping in front of your eyes and having to sort thru to find the article's continuance.

One of the most interesting and concerning reports i have seen in the history of 60 Minutes.

As a Former 77FH7 in Army, I never lost an Aircraft not anything more than 10 gallons spilled and shovels and sand bags as the holders of hazardous waste then placed in barrels loaded on a truck Placed in hazardous waste section then it’s contracted I’ve had an Airfield Tank Farm under my accounting with an assigned Hemett of 2500g Five Five tons with a TPU and pods and Five trailers w/ a pod Moved on through for 5ton and 5000 gallon tanker Nothing in my Sector As a few bags of hazardous waste I was sent to deal with other mishaps of greater per portions

Here's the real problem. What if electricity fails?? No Net. No news...that is scary.

Is it true, or did social media tell you what to think?

Wow this is 11 years old......

I don't understand why everyone says Facebook "makes" them feel one way or the other. Don't people have their own ways of thinking? Why are people so susceptible to other people's ideas?

The Big Tech Corporations and Hedge Funds should be forced by law to provide local and regional news or pay taxes to fund subsidies for these entities,

I believe it should be a community oversight committee to protect this most essential part of community, should be partially tax payer funded like water, sewer, school, libraries roads bridges public parks beaches etc. The monopolization is case for a breach of anti-trust principles. 😢 I 💕 and miss 📰

The newspaper seemed to have a way to maintain balance. No vulgar material mostly wholesome. Social media is such a propaganda engine. I am learning machine learning and some Ai principles in school right now. We are the algorithm, they are tuning the weights to hack the human mind. Maximizing on the secret desires of every user, tho only fix is how each user interacts with social media. Social media isn’t the problem. we are the product and are overdosing on information, that’s the problem.

Clickbait is probably the most easily recognisable misinformation.

I don't have a computer..l'm old enough where l don't need one. So l'm really looking at things from the outside looking in..l see a world where humans are sitting side by side and yet they don't recognize each other as thier eyes are constantly on their phones..strange...it's like watching something hypnotizing everyone at once, like a shared invisible drug..And then when l stroll around, l find that when people do raise their heads it's to argue, confront or even fight another...Anyway, l saw computers come to life as my dad was a programmer for I.B.M. back in the 70s, something told me this new technology would cause more harm than good..Wasn't that difficult to see in fact...

Starts with Fox News..... I can think of 787 million reasons immediately. OAN just settled their lawsuit last week, for I am sure, a boatload of money. It's so large it is under lock and key.

"Fall of newspapers, Rise of awareness to all the misinformation"

well I think the answer is just print advertising in the paper and local events funny stories, and news. make the paper free everywhere. it's still a market for advertisers they still want to use it newspapers. it is great for companies that do not cover that area of newspaper to advertise that is the best way for them to get there product into a certain area or neighbourhood you don't just advertise locally

Why is our government allowing this to happen? Freedom of the Press is a vital part of our democracy. We may be a capitalistic society however there must be safeguards.

Thank You 💕 Toledo - Blade

People can decide what is information vs misinformation, if they are given facts, there is no need to limit free speech. And the newspapers cannot complain someone is running their business as a business. Expenses cannot surpass income.

You can see the quality and the truth of reporting drops year by year with the 60 minutes.

Funny, one of the mis information curators doing a story about misinformation.

I miss newspapers

Now you will have to read it on line . 😮😢

Went to buy the paper and got sticker shock 3.58 had to put it back the paper is dead

So we all know corporations are in business to make money. That is not in question given our economic system. Generally speaking, those corporations do something that is useful for somebody. That's generally how they make that money. If the corporation goes away, the thing that was useful also goes away as an externality. Where I have a problem with vulture hedge funds is that the usefulness of the product is compromised and everyone suffers. The fact that people can make money by undermining the usefulness of services that people rely upon makes me think our economic system is not ideal. Maybe there are some services that would be better handled by the public sector to ensure the useful and necessary work is done Rather than opening struggling businesses up to vultures.

This only affects old people. I for one don’t trust main stream news for one, but I turned to news articles that I can find that only says what the news is and leaves their opinions out of it. I also don’t see the point of having a physical paper. There’s no reason to not make it digital and keep it that way. When old people die off, it will be the death of physical paper in general rather it be magazine, or newspapers.

Well, here in Honolulu we paid for a year ,for the Star Advertiser , got two namebrand NFL ballcaps and havnt received one paper yet its been about three months .i called they appologized and said problem was Fixed that was two months and three weeks ago . Still no paper . Think they should refund our $25 . But they are nice hats. Smh . Aloha DSC777

Newspaper is organised misinformation, while social media its disorganized sister😅

Maybe the staff at 60 minutes and the newspapers could get jobs as public information officers for government municipalities since mostly what they’ve been doing recently is republishing press releases with their name on it?

Prisons are keeping newspapers in business

Don’t know where to get news now.

Cant use emails to line the bird cage .

Loss of printed newspapers, meant there is nothing to line our cat's litter pale, wrap our fresh fish, and a million other utilitarian uses. Sometimes towns have a tiny sized newspapers, too useless for much of anything.

CNN calling something misinformation is the greatest ever example of the pot calling the kettle black!

Guys freedom of the press. That’s the problem.. It can’t be about profit and advertisement.. go find some dirt on some politicians and sell some newspapers. 🍀

2013 ???? wtf

This is the truth,sad.

They printed and put up paper posters to protest people's professions at the paper place.. because of course they would

God be with is al.❤🎉🎉!!!

The future is for the young,if they don't want to buy newspapers,then there time is up....

I'm surprised printed papers are still a thing.

Terrible decision not to sell to benson

The Boston Globe is published every day

wsj had completely contradictory articles in one day and I thought they were on drugs. nope, it's an everyday thing.

I wonder if 60 mins got de monetized for this one lol. Yt might remove it

The reporters voice is too hard to listen to

i had use for the paper when i owned a parrot...

What’s a newspaper?

Is this old?? It says 04/20/2024 because I’m a newspaper carrier (10+yrs) for New Orleans Metro area The Times Picayune Advocate Newspaper and we deliver 7 days a week……..

WHAT NERVE THEY HAVE TO DEMAND BETTER FROM US!! THIS ISNT LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS!!!

😎 thanks

More specific examples of how social media is wrecking the world would have made this article better.

Youngsters these days dont know nothing about a good ole fashion newspaper, cup of coffee , reading the funnies, checking out help wanted ads, etc.

Get with the times and go digital so you can comment. Your opinion might matter to someone else out there.

Why are they crying about newspapers? There are obsolete. Did people cry about horse and buggy being replaced by cars? SMH

I want real newspapers in my hands. I hate digital papers.

Who gets to decide what is true and what is misinformation? This is why free speech is essential.

I started my graphic design career in the newspaper 🗞️ business. I have worked for newspapers in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ventura CA, Lake Tahoe CA/NV and Carson City NV. I got out when it was beginning to fold in 2007 before my job was cut. Been self employed since then but over the last year I have been creating more digital newsletters for clients. News still coming out but in a new self publishing kind of way.

Good piece. Gym jordan is such a lying weasel. I'm so sorry you were stuck listening to his bs

It is mostly just wrong-headed manageement. and systemic greed. A limit on number of sponsors would easily causes a much needed decrease in numberbroadcast stations. Such stations--and many many other institutions were never primarily for-profit investments. The price of the newspaper or postage stamp was not a source of income. They were just nomial prices. So surely it is correct that we need more people with good class who want to own social media instead of Trump trash whobeleieve in unbridled capitalism.

A 10 year old episode? Whats wrong? You cant find a worthy subject in 2024?

60 minutes is misinformation. I grew up watching it and am now disgusted by it

What about CNN and the BBC?Why are these major billion dollar co. get a pass?

Unfortunately, print newspapers are going the way of horse and buggy

No Jacket Gym Jordan is such a fool.

At 60, I get all my news on YT basically. I can see news from around here World without the American biases. I can pick and choose what I choose to put in my head. I get local news from a Senior newsletter email, and basically my local city council requesting voters on certain subjects, basically taxes. But I am a very engaged reader. Much more so than when I was a working person, unfortunately. When I was working, I enjoyed the Sunday papers mostly, and sadly admit that I looked at the entertainment and sales sections mostly. I don’t like that the Fourth Estate is dwindling in America. You can’t even blame it on parties or foreign conspiracies. It is the result of the wealthy 1% whom couldn’t give a NYC Rat King’s a$$ about Truth, justice, or Americans in general who are not on their board or one of their investors. THAT is the state of the capitalist society today. In foreign countries, it usually requires a radical turnover in Leadership often by revolutionary and violent forces. This^ is the result of greed: pure & simple. The owners of these corporations buying out newspapers are so completely insulated on a global scale individually as well as corptocracies that they truly have no investment in the Nation as a stabilizing force in the world. The individual members and their families can just jump ship and move to their private islands. They can continue to enjoy access to their bank accounts in Panama, Switzerland, Cypress and other foreign countries, and probably in Hong Kong as well. Not that this diatribe will even make an impression on the tL;dr generation who get most of their answers and opinions from Reddit and Quora( with 0 oversight from researchers and fact checkers because the answers are crowd sourced). Im not going to influence the FB group nor their rowdy red percent - they exist in a sound silo, and aren’t even interested in another opinion. They weren’t very literate (comprehension wise) BEFORE 2015, and they weren’t very informationally literate either (“informationally” - is that a word?). I am just an old woman yelling at clouds. 🌧️

I'd like to modernize 60 Minutes as one of its youngest hosts ever. Leaving this comment for future reference.

NO CENSORSHIP Conservatives have proven theyre censored.

Newspapers are yesterdays news.

I wonder how many reddit accounts Kate has

Croc tears. Get tf on par where people are and how they want to read news. If you fall behind seems your issue.

Wanting to hear from both sides I subscribed to Cleveland’s Plain Dealer for 25+ years. Slanted and incomplete reporting of facts drove me away. Propaganda.

Constant lying. Calling the truth misinformation. There's the answer in a few words. People aren't as stupid as you think. And the ones that are, are already watching this crud.

University of Washington alum, ex female professional basketball player, lesbian….. yeah, she’s 100% unbiased 🙄

But it's not doing this job very well😮 yeah let's back up a minute set back in the vision what's really going on😊

Today kids don't read and on top of it is the newspaper and this means that they are in the dark

Don't fight progress. Just move good journalism to the web. Stop wasting trees.

Lost me w/ the DEI chic. NEXT!

Does this title imply that the newspaper didn’t provide misinformation

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Its the other way around sweetie.