Has mountain climber and best-selling Greg Mortenson of "Three Cups of Tea" fame been exposed as a fraud by CBS's 60 Minutes? Or is the segment that ran this past Sunday "seriously deficient" and "lacking in basic elements of fairness, balance, perspective, insight and context," as former Newsweek correspondent Daniel Glick target="_blank">argues? Glick, who is an accomplished magazine writer (and a good friend of mine), offers a spirited defense that is less a deconstruction of 60 Minutes' reporting and more a testimonial of Mortenson, based on a 1998 trip Glick made to Pakistan, where he met Mortenson "years before he hit national headlines." Glick recounts the experience and some of his impressions:
Mortenson was one of the more interesting people I had met in a lifetime of traveling and writing about interesting people. He was humble, dressed in a dirty shalwar kameez, and seemed about as guileless as anybody I ...
