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Hey folks, I’m back! — after some annoying website problems and a summer vacation from the blog. In July I traveled with my family to Scandinavia, Lithuania, Poland, Paris and points east again. We were doing family things, including finding my great-grandfather’s shtetl near Kovno (now Kaunas). It was [...]
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 [...]
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 his [...]
( Almost all illustrations in this post, including the black-and-white nude, are computer generated and do not portray real people. Some virtual images are reproduced from work published by Dartmouth College Professor Hany Farid … see below for more about him.)
More of the latest sex-pol research and news: from studies of young people [...]
Writer David France was on (click here) Boston public radio WBUR yesterday, talking about his story, in last month’s New York Magazine, about the fall of former New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald. France’s interview is the first normal radio piece about the subject — “normal” referring to the quaint practice of a host asking [...]
I’m still out of town and busy, so for several more days there’ll be no wordy blogging.
Meanwhile, check out David France’s piece in the latest issue of New York Magazine, “Saving Justin Berry” for — finally! — some actual reporting by someone other than I, about Kurt Eichenwald (click here)
There’s a lot missing from [...]
(The original entry was updated on October 20)
If you’ve listened to AM or FM since October 19 and you’re visiting this site, it probably means you heard NPR’s “All Things Considered” about the strange fate of former New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald. The program presented his claim, made publicly for the first time, that [...]
It’s been awhile since I hit the sex-panic button on this blog … been playing hooky from newspapers and the internet cave to hit sidewalks and neighborhoods during September’s Indian summer. As usual, though, much is happening back in Terror & Loathing land — a place densely populated with out-of-control minors, who appear mostly to [...]
The New York Times yesterday finally took hold of the “New Dirt on Eichenwald and Justin Berry” story, after being scooped days ago by Counterpunch. That publication sent me to cover the hearing in Nashville last week, where a judge rejected Kurt Eichenwald’s motion to quash subpoenas. They seek evidence that Eichenwald paid additional [...]
Kurt Eichenwald is in more trouble today, as new evidence emerged that he secretly paid even more money to teen porn maker Justin Berry, besides the $2,000 check which embarrassed him and the New York Times earlier this year (see my previous post, “Eichenwald Dustup” for background).
For the latest, see my reporting in today’s online [...]
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