DAVID BIANCULLI

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60 MINUTES
February 22, 2015  | By David Bianculli

CBS, 7:00 p.m. ET

 
Last week, 60 Minutes presented the final report by correspondent Bob Simon, who had died earlier that week, a passenger claimed by a tragic, brutal New York traffic accident. This week, an expanded episode of 60 Minutes is all about celebrating Simon and his long, impressive journalistic career. The first half hour is a profile, and includes interviews with many of Simon’s 60 Minutes producers and other colleagues – and the remaining hour repeats three of Simon’s full-length stories, on the war in Bosnia, survivors of the tsunami, and poor people in Paraguay who formed a symphony orchestra after making instruments crafted from garbage. Those stories, respectively, won Simon personal Emmys number 14, 20 and 27 – and 60 Minutes does his memory, and CBS’s viewers, a service by repeating them. For an appreciation of Bob Simon's career, see Noel Holston's The Grassy Noel.
 
 
 
 
 
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