Actually, 60 Minutes has quite a checkered past. The first thing that comes to mind is their misrepresentation in the 80s of reports of "unintended acceleration

Actually, 60 Minutes has quite a checkered past. The first thing that comes to mind is their misrepresentation in the 80s of reports of "unintended acceleration" in Audi 5000s. Their colored journalism almost ruined the company. CBS's "60 Minutes" ran a devastating expose of the Audi 5000. Audi customers fled. Lawyers cashed in. The American public was saved, yet again, from the perils of technology gone awry. Only one little noticed footnote remains at the end: There was nothing wrong with the car. ... '60 Minutes,' in one of journalism's most shameful hours, gave air time in November 1986 to a selfstyled expert who drilled a hole in an Audi transmission and pumped in air at high pressure. Viewers didn't see the drill or the pump—just the doctored car blasting off like a rocket. http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cjm_18.htm http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cjm_18.htm