The Detroit Free Press has issued the findings of its investigation into the reporting of Mitch Albom, saying that “Albom lifted quotes from other publications without attribution and in some stories quotes appeared to be slightly changed from how they appeared elsewhere,” so that they “seemed to be livelier.” But as a Detroit News story by Ron French and David Shepardson reports, “Now the investigation itself is under fire, as several reporters who worked on the review say editors emphasized elements that supported Albom rather than criticized him.” The News story says, “Free Press investigative reporter David Zeman said Monday he and other reporters who conducted the five-week investigation were disappointed that editors chose to emphasize ‘what we didn’t find, instead of what we did find.'” Replies Free Press editor Carole Leigh Hutton, “God knows if we were about taking care of Mitch, there wouldn’t have been any investigative report.”