{"id":1026,"date":"2007-10-29T09:43:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T16:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2007-12-05T17:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T00:45:00","slug":"saving-justin-berry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1026","title":{"rendered":"Saving Justin Berry"},"content":{"rendered":"

David France writes in New York magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Times business reporter Kurt Eichenwald thought he was doing a noble thing by rescuing a teen from the Internet sex trade. He didn’t know how much it would cost him.<\/p>\n

In his remarkable twenty-year career as a New York Times business journalist, Kurt Eichenwald has seen himself as a kind of crusader—shedding light on the world’s dark places, uncovering wrongdoing, bringing criminals to account. Lately, however, the pursuer feels like the pursued. “I had no idea of what I was taking on. I had no idea of the magnitude of the evil of these people,” he tells me. “This is an organized-crime business, these are people—we’re not talking about people with an affinity for Scotch—they spend their days talking and living and breathing the sexual issues of children.”<\/p>\n

Two years ago, Eichenwald wrote a sensational front-page story in the New York Times about Justin Berry, a teenage pornography star who ran an enormously lucrative business from his room while his mother thought he was doing homework. The article resulted in congressional hearings, arrests, book-and-movie interest, and an Oprah episode. Eichenwald followed that first story with disturbing reports about illegal child-modeling Websites and self-help chat rooms where child molesters perfect their strategies. The Berry piece was impressive in its vividness. Law-enforcement agencies seized upon it as the definitive word about a sordid, teeming underworld, and parents inclined to worry about the dangers of the Internet were given reason to worry much more.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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