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...... But though she was the first journalist whose fairly innocent lack of responsibility started the domino effect of Marlas story in the media, Elizabeth Cohen was far from the worst transgressor in this area. The segment Bar-Lev shows of the television newsmagazine 60 Minutes coverage of Marlas painting was even more inflammatory, and just as shoddily researched. The story quite blatantly suggest that Marlas parents might be fraudulently representing their daughters talents, but there is no real evidence of this. They show a child psychologistnot an art expert, it should be notedwho is initially impressed with the quality of the paintings attributed to Marla, but is surprised to see on a video of Marla painting that she paints like any child her age. It is after this that the child psychologist begins to possibly detect a difference in the quality of the paintings attributed to Marla and the one she was videotaped painting
A comparison of one painting to a body of work by a non-expert is certainly not conclusive evidence of authenticity either way, but this is the evidence presented by Sixty Minutes. Suggesting that anyone might be behaving fraudulently is a story that requires a great deal

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