60 Minutes: Aug 26

60 Minutes gets on the Disgrace race, as Charles Wooley looks at whether social media hate is killing free speech, while Liam Bartlett profiles a serial killer accusation in the USA.

Act of Outage
To slightly bastardise that famous Hollywood line: Australians are as mad as hell, and we’re not going to take it anymore! The feeling is amplified by social media which is giving instant – and deafening – voice to our outrage. On Facebook and Twitter it seems there’s a lot that we’re angry about, and we’ve become very accurate when we spit our venom. For proof, hashtag Malcolm Turnbull or Peter Dutton. Even Charles Wooley knows what it’s like to cop the public’s wrath. Earlier this year on 60 Minutes he dared to describe the New Zealand Prime Minister as “attractive”. As a result of the backlash he now wonders if we’ve gone too far and asks, is getting high on hate killing free speech?
Reporter: Charles Wooley
Producer: Bryce Corbett

Unmasked
To his neighbours, 72-year-old Joseph DeAngelo was an unlikeable, whingeing curmudgeon. No doubt he would have bitched at the nickname they gave him too, “Crazy Joe”. But that is nothing compared with the label police and prosecutors in the United States are now trying to pin on him. They accuse DeAngelo of being the Golden State Killer, a serial murderer and rapist as vile as has ever lived. In the 1970s and 80s, it’s alleged he wreaked havoc all over the state of California while evading capture. And he might have gotten away with it forever, except for some of the most innovative detective work you will ever see.
Reporter: Liam Bartlett
Producer: Stefanie Sgroi

8:30pm Sunday on Nine.