Can we talk about Kurt Eichenwald, who seems to have emerged as many Democrats' favorite reporter in 2016?
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In 2005, Eichenwald wrote a blockbuster NYT story about child pornography. He claimed to have stumbled on it through a google search.pic.twitter.com/aGXL41eTxi
Instead of alerting authorities, Eichenwald contacted the website's star and business partner, posing as Eagles' member Don Henley.pic.twitter.com/iKSfIuorCO
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When Eichenwald later wrote the story, he failed to disclose these payments to his editors (or readers).pic.twitter.com/OwWOgYMCwk
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Shortly after publication, the mother of one of the story's subject contacted the Times with a disturbing allegation about Eichenwald.pic.twitter.com/BE2XODMlJg
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Eichenwald copped to a $2000 payment but not others. In 2007, additional payments were revealed in court proceedings.pic.twitter.com/4JhzxDllQp
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This became fairly embarrassing for the New York Times.http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/08/business/media/08paper.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=us&adxnnlx=1187103645-RHYTYWFBB5CB92wk/vp4EA …
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Eichenwald then revealed, due to illness, he suffered from "significant memory disruptions" that accounted for his forgetting the payments.pic.twitter.com/Uje5Q1hFXf
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But memory loss alone doesn't account for all the strange details that emerged about Eichenwald's reporting on this story.pic.twitter.com/vf9xM6cGQy
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And while Eichenwald may have forgotten those payments, others knew about them and e-mails & banking records surely could have been checked.pic.twitter.com/A2X8S32pww
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sounds like dissociative amnesia or identity dis. Very rare, if true. But still hold judgement back. Still just conspiracy
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that part cracks me up
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wut?
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