Peter Landesman managed to get this article in the NYT when arguably the mainstream media was in it's last twilight as a source of truthful and hard hitting journalism. He discusses how children are traded in the Disneyland parking lot, confirming so many suspicions I'd always had about the evil mouse who hoodwinks parents to pay for advertising while he hypnotizes their children. He writes about the child prostitute market of Mexico, held within fairly easy reach of the US border. He discusses safe houses in the US, hints at the sheer volume of the trade and how handlers control and train the kids so they will never cry or try to run, unless that is what their rapist desires. I was stunned by what I read in this article back then, and knew even back then this was a much bigger disease than was being acknowleged.
Still he did not explore the government's involvement in the trade, the use of ports as points of entry, of protected government personnel who find and herd orphans like flocks across borders, or the blackmail side of it. Maybe that's because he saw what happened to Gary Webb, who exposed the CIA's involvement in drug trafficking and met a bad death. Landesman wrote the screenplay "Kill The Messenger" about Webb's investigation and death, based on Webb's book Dark Alliance. All of these efforts are well worth taking a look. The debt we owe to these kind of journalists cannot be measured - true heroes who take enormous risks as writers with very little in compensation except the eternal gratitude and admiration of the very few who still bother to read in depth, and remember.
One thing Landesman brought home to me as I digested this article - rampant child sex trafficking was very real, was happening, and is still happening right this very moment. Even as you read this, a child with a very short future ahead of them is very probably being directed to obediently walk across a parking lot, familiarly take the hand of a well dressed man they've never met before, and call him "daddy."
https://archive.is/f8j1R
original still up http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/magazine/the-girls-next-door.html?_r=0
crystalclear ago
Has anyone approached him?
anonOpenPress ago
The source being Peter Landesman himself, reputable journalist, and two facts: (1) His claims were supported by other reputable journalist Marzorati, (2) his claims were soon challenged by biased media, supports him as a reliable source. Him leaving out the victim sources in his article is understandable, protecting them. As privilege source he can deliver something, but the reader still should add some realm of protection. In my opinion:
You can list his related claims and enter link (prefer archived) to all the categories his claims fits in our sticky post. Additionally, you can add a link to this discussion on each. For example: 2004-01-25 Peter Landesman, NYT Magazine claims that... https://archive.is/f8j1R discussion /v/pizzagatejournalism/1787241
You could also wait for comments from other fact checkers, but that might take a while, this being a new sub. Thanks for this, nice to see this collaboration starts with such a great piece of journalism.
anonOpenPress ago
@VieBley Let me show you an example here instead, as that might also help everybody else.
First, I pick any related claim from the article:
Second, I check the sticky to find the categories this claim fits
Then, I form my reply freely, includind at least the date, the main claim and sources, and post in under the related category M1
(That I actually did, you can see the reply there now)
To go on, you might form your reply to A4, including that IT / web-cam stuff, or find any other claim fitting other categories from the article. It's like picking the cherries. There are a lot in this article you found.
VieBleu ago
Could you please add this link/your commentary it to the multiple areas of the sticky comments, to illustrate how you would do it?