Comments on: Shame On You, Lesley Stahl!

By: Shola Olunloyo

Shola Olunloyo — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:14:54 +0000

The logic escapes me, yes certainly important breaking news is on other mediums and focusing on who tapes what and where frankly is irrelevant to the conversation.
TV news magazines like 60 minutes do not profess to dwell on important breaking news, they take a subsequent look at “ongoing issues and conversation” such at the structure of what it takes to eat healthy in America.”Must see TV” as a quote is subjective enough to be entirely useless as a descriptive baseline of what any particular person besides oneself would be interested in watching.
The underlying fact is what what was shown elicited fair questions that the general public would ask.
If it was so easy, Chez Panisse would not have 35 cooks in the kitchen.
I would add to what MG said, no one EVEN has wood burning ovens in their house let alone cook eggs one at a time on a spoon.

By: jo

jo — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:40:23 +0000

I mean you definitely do not have time to tend a roaring fire, marinate the tomatoes and cook each egg in a copper spoon. It’s common sense. You are foolish.

By: cheesesteak the impaler

cheesesteak the impaler — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:56:08 +0000

I’ve just never thought of 60 Minutes as “must see TV”. Any really “important” story is already broken in the online/print world well before it airs. Taping 60 Minutes to me is like archiving your morning news feeds. Apparently it’s still a relevant newsmagazine for you. At least I’ll know where to find an Andy Rooney library when the need arises … or I could just go here: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/08/podcast_60min/main828230.shtml

By: Shola Olunloyo

Shola Olunloyo — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:54:23 +0000

Yes I do among several other things.
Have you ever heard of a DVR/Tivo to record things on television one might be interested in ?
What’s your point ?

By: cheesesteak the impaler

cheesesteak the impaler — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:21:32 +0000

You tape 60 Minutes?

By: Shola Olunloyo

Shola Olunloyo — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:34:04 +0000

Actually I disagree, I taped the entire thing and have watched it 3 more times since reading this.
You are missing the point. America is a broad country and all the people who “get it” already know who Alice Waters is, the show spoke to stereotypes of the “Organic” movement and to some degree dispelled the immediate questions that skeptics would have. Do you really think someone as intellectually astute and educated as Lesley Stahl really is that clueless ?
The point was to re-sell “organic” in the right way to the people who are being marketed into buying Organic at places like Walmart while shopping for a TV. It’s a common journalistic approach but I do not think it diminishes the message at all, Alice Waters was not pissed, why should we be ?
She was certainly prepped for those questions and I am certain they informed her about counterpoint questions. I though it was one of the best things on 60 minutes in a long time. You have to see the Ed Bradley-Miles Davis interview.

By: mg

mg — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:44:29 +0000

To be fair, Waters wasn’t “merely chopping tomatoes and frying an egg, putting them both on toast.” She marinated the tomatoes and then baked the eggs, one at a time in a copper spoon, in a wood-burning stove built into the wall of her kitchen.

Then she put them on the toast.

I would say that no one has the time or money for single-shirred eggs in a wood-burning stove.

By: Joy Manning

Joy Manning — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:14:16 +0000

This must be why I don’t watch 60 Minutes. Shame is right.