60 Minutes

===Timothy McVeigh===
On March 12, 2000, ''60 Minutes'' aired an interview with [[Oklahoma City bombing|Oklahoma City bomber]] [[Timothy McVeigh]]. At the time, McVeigh had already been convicted and sentenced to death for the bombing of the [[Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building]] in April 1995, and the subsequent deaths of 168 people. On the program, McVeigh was given the opportunity to vent against the government.<ref>{{cite news|title=McVeigh Vents On '60 Minutes'|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/03/13/national/main171231.shtml|work=CBS News|date=March 13, 2000|access-date=April 20, 2020|archive-date=May 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130513084808/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/03/13/national/main171231.shtml|url-status=dead}}</ref> Following the program, a federal policy called the Special Confinement Unit Media Policy was enacted prohibiting face-to-face interviews with [[death row]] inmates.<ref>{{cite web|title=Journalism, Edward R. Murrow, First Amendment &#124; Communicator &#124; Ban on Face-To-Face Interviews with Federal Death Row Inmates Stands |url=http://www.rtdna.org/pages/posts/ban-on-face-to-face-interviews-with-federal-death-row-inmates-stands876.php |publisher=[[Radio Television Digital News Association]] |date=March 12, 2010 |access-date=March 29, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318180807/http://www.rtdna.org/pages/posts/ban-on-face-to-face-interviews-with-federal-death-row-inmates-stands876.php |archive-date=March 18, 2012 }}</ref> A federal inmate challenged the policy in ''Hammer v. [[John Ashcroft|Ashcroft]]'', under which the [[U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit]] upheld the prison policy. In March 2010, the [[Supreme Court of the United States|United States Supreme Court]] declined to hear an appeal in the case, and the policy limiting media access to death row inmates remains in place. CBS refuses to show the entire interview, and has stated no reasons.<ref>{{cite news|title=High court won't hear appeal, ban on death row interviews stands|url=http://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-resources/news/high-court-wont-hear-appeal-ban-death-row-interviews-stands|last=Andrews|first=Curry|publisher=[[Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press]]|date=March 8, 2010}}</ref>