Date:  Thu, 7 Aug 1997 14:28:24 -0700
From:  Sylvia Swift <madonna[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SOCRATES.BERKELEY.EDU>
Subject: Re: "Culprit Zero" attribution

On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Mark Mandel wrote:

> Lest I compound the confusion of who said what when, here is (edited)
> the text in which I found the expression "Culprit Zero". It was not used
> by the columnist, Mary Schmich, but by Bob Weide, blah blah blah

but schmich apparently also said it. from the version of the retraction
i got:

>I regret my part in circulating this cyber-myth and
>wish to thank John LeBlanc for calling the error
>to my attention and providing the URL for
>the below column
(http://www.chicago.tribune.com/news/current/schmich.htm)
>
>    jessea greenman
>
>
>----
>
> TODAY'S COLUMN
blah blah blah

>Hoping to find the source of this prank, I traced one e-mail backward
>from its last recipient, Hank De Zutter, a professor at Malcolm X College
>in Chicago. He received it from a relative in New York, who received it
>from a film producer in New York, who received it from a TV producer in
>Denver, who received it from his sister, who received it. . . .
>
>I realized the pursuit of culprit zero would be endless. I gave up.
>

sylvia swift
madonna[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]socrates.berkeley.edu