[muawiyah]

Regarding follow-up phone-calls ~ I recall one that was particularly devastating ~ someone at FR called the FAX number on the photocopy CBS was passing around.

Apparantly CBS hadn't even done that.

It was to a Kinko's ~ in Texas.

The implication was profound. Either Mary Mapes was stepping out of her well-equipped editor's office to use a FAX at Kinko's (to cover her own trail?) or someone else had sent the FAX (and a well-known, but otherwise mentally ill, anti-Bush activist lived there).

I wonder why Mary doesn't mention that phone call?

[NordP]

Yah, a crack team at CBS, huh? Mostly crack.

[MeanWestTexan]

Hey Democratic reporters don't have to check their facts or follow up --- thorough follow up of every lead is required only by those who deign to criticize biased Democratic reporters.