[lbo-talk] Eichenwald revisited

[Doug Henwood]

People may recall the excellent Debbie Nathan's run-in with the New  
York Times and its former reporter Kurt Eichenwald. Eichenwald did a  
series on kiddie porn for the paper. Nathan wrote a piece for Salon  
saying that researching a piece like that could put you at risk of  
prosecution for felonious websurfing - so how'd Eichenwald get away  
with it. Eichenwald & the Times got threatening, and Salon took down  
the story immediately. (The story is recounted at <http:// 
www.fair.org/index.php?page=3052>.) Now it emerges that Eichenwald  
gave his star subject $2,000. Why? What's it all mean?

Nathan has a recent report: <http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/03/ 
times_prostitute_rescuer_eiche.html>.

And Gawker posits an interesting timeline: <http://gawker.com/news/ 
kurt-eichenwald/kurt-eichenwald-has-some-splaining-to-do-242699.php>.