That is absolutely correct. There were a lot of fine Freepers who actually did much of the work for the incompetent lazy local press. The cable news people and a few talk show people kept it national, and a few web bloggers did some outstanding work as well. You would not believe the extremes that some here on FreeRepublic went through in order to expose the fraudulent Nifong.
It was before my ‘time’ but I found this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1607267/posts#comment?q=1