Debbie Nathan

Sex pol, borders, Mexico, Yiddish, my camera

Archive for February, 2008

Yet another media figure and child porn

Larry Mathews in the Washington, DC area. Kurt Eichenwald in Dallas and New York. Bernie Ward in San Francisco. All involved in child porn scandals while working in the media. And now there’s Dennis Melanson, in Canada. His story has been covered extensively but superficially by the Canadian press, including the CBC. The clip I’m [...]

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Francisco Javier Dominguez Rivera and Nicholas Corbett

Note: please also see a follow up article, based on reporting I did for The Nation in March, a month after the piece below was written. Click here. Who’s the bad guy: Francisco Javier Dominguez Rivera or Nicholas Corbett? The first was a young Mexican man and four-year resident of California who was killed last [...]

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4th Estate Dungeon: The Talk Show Host and the Child Porn Mail

I’ve been too busy the last month to blog much, but developments in the Bernie Ward case prompt this post: Bernie Ward may have spent a generation in the news and media biz, but three years ago, it now appears, he was just a messed up guy with a computer and too much time on [...]

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