On Friday, we heard that today's New York mag piece on former New York Times reporter and kiddie pornographer-buster of sorts Kurt Eichenwald was being awaited with great anticipation inside the Times. Well, let the anticlimax begin! We had hoped for more.

You know who suddenly has the longest Wikipedia biography in history? Not just Times tech columnist David Pogue, but also former New York Times reporter and current (alleged) Portfolio scribe Kurt Eichenwald! An unknown Wikipedia user called Milo73 has added huge amounts of autobiographical data recently. Maybe this person even knows Kurt, because Milo73's IP address tracks to Dallas, Texas, which is where Kurt lives! (Also, that IP address worked on the Wiki page of Eichenwald story subject Justin Berry too—but on no other entries.) The Wiki writer knows all kinds of obscure stuff about Kurt, about his epilepsy, for instance. You know what else is interesting? The Wikipedia additions cite court transcripts in State of Michigan versus Kenneth Gourlay, a kiddie porn case in which Eichenwald testified. Almost nobody has those transcripts, because they cost nearly $2000—we were trying to get them for a while, but gave up. A few folks, including Kurt and his Dallas lawyer Tim Perkins, have copies though!

Today at Counterpunch (subscription only, hence the handy partial guide that follows), reporter Debbie Nathan retells the Justin Berry narrative. It's another version of the story of the teen hustler turned adult pornographer turned government witness that Kurt Eichenwald told in the New York Times in December, 2005—a retelling she undertook as his was constituted from what she calls "deficient reporting." This will undoubtedly incite Eichenwald into some lawyerly frenzy.

Former Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald has written a long, vehement, must-read letter, providing his own time-line of his meeting and interactions with Justin Berry, the subject of his online kiddie-porn story of December, 2005. He also describes his fight with the Times over disclosing his interactions with Berry, and says that he's begun legal proceedings against Debbie Nathan, a reporter who he describes as "a woman who has a vendetta against me." He describes her account of Justin Berry's recent courthouse appearance as "misleading and false." He is also totally, totally pissed off.