The Brian Lehrer Show

Web of Intrigue

Thursday, January 19, 2006

New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald’s investigation into online child porn was one of the paper’s most forwarded stories of 2005. Eichenwald talks about the changes it brought about and his close connection to his source. Plus: Are World Trade Center rescue workers suffering 9/11-related respiratory problems?, Chile's new president and are you a paranoid parent?

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Disciplinary Action

Cindy Rodriguez, WNYC Reporter
-on the shakeup at ACS after Nixmary Brown's death

Air of Foreboding

Thomas Zambito, Daily News reporter
and
Dr. Robin Herbert, director of Mount Sinai hospital's World Trade Center Medical Monitoring Program

» "The Pit's Toll Rising" by Thomas Zambito and Robert F. Moore in the New York Daily News
» The World Trade Center Medical Monitoring Program at Mount Sinai Hospital
» WTC Medical Monitoring Program Phone Bank and Registration Hotline: (888) 702-0630

Trailblazing

Patricio Navia, master teacher of global studies at NYU and assistant professor of Latin American studies
- on Michelle Bachalet, the first female president of Chile.

» Patricio Navia (NYU)

Web of Intrigue

Kurt Eichenwald, investigative reporter for The New York Times
- convinced a child porn star to get help

» "Child Pornography Sites Face New Obstacles" by Kurt Eichenwald in The New York Times
» "Through His Webcam, a Boy Joins a Sordid Online World" by Kurt Eichenwald in The New York Times
» "The New York Times Legal Aid Society" by Jack Shafer in Slate