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Eichenwald's story holding again at Portfolio

The Gawker web site is also reporting that former New York Times investigative business reporter Kurt Eichenwald is steamed in his new job at Conde Nast Portfolio because his big story that was supposed to run in the premiere issue is now not running in the second issue as well.

Gawker reported, “We’re also told that Eichenwald is steamed that Portfolio editor-in-chief Joanne Lipman won’t let him resell the piece. Her reasoning is that he shouldn’t because the magazine is paying him so well for his work. ‘He’s pissed,’ a source at the magazine said.

“It’s a tense time at Portfolio in general, report staffers. The next issue, dated September, is ramping up for a late July close.

“Eichenwald is still under contract to the magazine, but there’s speculation among staffers that the magazine is hoping he’ll just leave quietly on his own accord. We imagine the lawyer-happy fella would undoubtedly not respond well to his contract being broken.”

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Mike Murphy says:
June 13, 2007 at 4:10 am
God, some people are so dumb. The bloggers and gossip sites have been all over Eichenwald, but the mainstream media has ignored the real story.
When Eichenwald sent Berry the $2000 on June 8, 2005, Berry had been out of the porn business for six or seven months. As soon as he got the money, Berry reactivated his dormant porn site "Justinsfriends.com". It went back on-line on June 18, 2005, just 10 days after Berry got Eichenwald's money. Coincidence? According to Bryon Calame's last column Berry's partner Greg Mitchel stated that the money was used to start the business up again. Eichenwald and Berry said that the money was used for electronic toys. Calame refused to follow up on the matter (orders from above?) and let the matter drop (so much for the duties of the NY Times Public Editor).
Twelve days after he reactivates the porn site, Berry meets with Eichenwald face to face in LA. A few days later Berry abandons the site and flies off to Dallas with the customer list. Eichenwald gets Berry immunity from prosecution and the rest is history.
The only person who knows what she is talking about is Debbie Nathan. Read her article. Every fact is researched and verified.
Michael Johnson says:
June 28, 2007 at 4:09 pm
I checked out Murphy's story. I have no idea where he gets his information, but it is a lot of garbage.
If you check justinsfriends.com on archive.org, you will see it was active beginning on October 24, 2004. In 2005, it was active on January 31 and repeatedly shows to be active every month after that.
Moreover, Murphy's argument makes no sense. As I understand it, this was a webcam site. The site, archive shows, was up and running. What was money needed for?
Finally, one disturbing note. Murphy seems to know quite a lot of details about the timing of things. He also seems to have an unusual interest here. Was he a subscriber? Is he a pedophile? If not, where does his information come from? And why is he so angry, given that this resulted in the arrests of lots of bad guys?