Was the "60 Minutes" story on Jim Shortt "fair and balanced?"
Hah! Are you kidding. Nope. It definitely was not. Sorry Andy - You blew it...
CBS News doesn't seem to have much interest in determining facts or "real news." It is apparent that they have no investigative sense, at all. In the Shortt story, and in the handling of it (I was there with them for 35 hours) it became clear they had done NO RESEARCH of their own to determine the validity of the story, in the first place. They had been handed "a piece," by persons unknown, and ran with it, without backgrounding it.
Here's the real low down on the Jim Shortt story....
http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpieces/shortt1.htm