Vick gets the (softened?) 60-Minutes treatment.

Two major questions remain unanswered after tonight's interview with Michael Vick on the CBS 60-Minutes program. The first is: "Did you (Vick) know what you were doing was illegal?" They touched on it:

JAMES BROWN: You shared with me the story about, even the police riding through the neighborhood and seeing what was happening. Explain that situation.

MICHAEL VICK: When they got out the car and seen that, you know, it was two dogs fighting, they got back in the car and they roll -- they left. So that right there kind of made me feel like, “Okay, you know, this ain’t -- it -- it is not as bad as it may seem.” We didn’t think it was bad at the time. And, you know, that kind of put a stamp on it.

But the second question, the one that really needs to be answered, isn't for Vick. It's for CBS: did the network roll over for Vick's handlers and agree for the interview to be conducted by James Brown, an NFL Today anchor who as far as I can tell has never been on 60-Minutes before. And if they did, should they not have disclosed that fact?And what does the rest of the 60-Minutes staff think of it? New York Daily News columnist Bob Raissman discusses that aspect of the story in a column today, yet he seems to indicate it is a given that Vick insisted on Brown as the interviewer.