60 Minutes

===NSA report===
On December 15, 2013, ''60 Minutes'' aired a report on the workings of [[National Security Agency]] (NSA) that was widely criticized<ref name=":0">{{cite news|title='60 Minutes' Trashed For NSA Piece|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/16/60-minutes-nsa_n_4452568.html|last=Mirkinson|first=Jack|work=[[The Huffington Post]]|publisher=[[AOL]]|date=December 16, 2013}}</ref> as misleading<ref>{{cite news|title=NSA goes on 60 Minutes: the definitive facts behind CBS's flawed report|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/16/nsa-surveillance-60-minutes-cbs-facts|last=Ackerman|first=Spencer|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=December 16, 2013}}</ref> and a biased "puff piece".<ref>{{cite news|title=60 Minutes Gift Wrapped a Puff Piece for the NSA|url=https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/12/60-minutes-hearts-the-nsa.html|last=Coscarelli|first=Joe|work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|date=December 16, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=When '60 Minutes' Checks Its Journalistic Skepticism at the Door|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/23/business/media/when-60-minutes-checks-its-journalistic-skepticism-at-the-door.html|last=Carr|first=David|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 23, 2013}}</ref> Complaints included that the Agency's perspective was presented unchallenged and that privacy campaigners were not invited to present the counter-arguments to the Agency's claims.<ref name=":0" /> The story was reported by [[John Miller (journalist)|John Miller]], who once worked in the office of the [[Director of National Intelligence]].