Avedon Carol: Bad paper

Mary Mapes, the CBS news producer who was fired after right-wing hacks suggested (without proof) that a document used in a 60 Minutes expose of George Bush's National Guard History was a forgery, has been giving interviews while promoting her book, Truth and Duty : The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power. Mapes points out that no one has ever proven that the document was forged, and stands by her reporting. There's an excerpt from the book here.

Mapes started the day knowing that she and her team had done a good job. But:

All that changed about 11:00 a.m., when I first started hearing rumbles from some producers at CBS News that a handful of far right Web sites were saying that the documents had been forged.