“60 Minutes Is Quietly Flourishing”

“60 Minutes is quietly flourishing,” Alessandra Stanley writes in Friday’s NYT.

Quoting: “Trying to adapt to the times, 60 Minutes has recruited some youth and glamour: CNN’s Anderson Cooper is a contributor this season, and so is Lara Logan, CBS’s chief foreign correspondent. The CBS anchor Katie Couric is perhaps the program’s biggest star. But at heart, 60 Minutes is still as stodgy and familiar as the tick-tick-tick of the Tag Heuer stopwatch. The strongest on-air personality at the moment is one of the program’s blander faces: Scott Pelley, a former White House correspondent and 17-year veteran of CBS News…”