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Before she left Seattle to become a producer at Mr. Rather's "CBS Evening News," Ms. Mapes produced a sensational report on a killing of a drug suspect by police that rested on the shoulders of an unreliable source whose story collapsed under cross-examination .. Former colleagues of Ms. Mapes agree that she was a passionate practitioner of advocacy journalism. "She went into journalism to change society," says former KIRO anchorwoman Susan Hutchison. "She always was very, very cause-oriented."

UPDATE: "Great minds thinks alike." I posted the above last night. InstaPundit posted this today -- "puff piece" must be the natural and inevitable language anyone would use to describe the WaPo article on Mapes. Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack