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  • The Accidental Blogger

    04/06/2005 3:00:43 PM PDT · by swilhelm73 · 1 replies · 355+ views
    AJR ^ | April/May 2005 | Neil Reisner
    Rony Abovitz didn't intend to be a media star, a darling of the right, a villain to the left. He just wanted to take in one of the more interesting sessions at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, a panel called "Will Democracy Survive the Media?" He was drawn by the prestigious lineup of speakers: CNN Chief News Executive Eason Jordan; David R. Gergen, adviser to four presidents; U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.); Richard Sambrook, director of the BBC World Service; and Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan's minister of foreign affairs. But as Abovitz listened at the January...
  • EASONGATE: A RETROSPECTIVE (Standout Bloggers On The Story!!)

    02/12/2005 4:51:47 AM PST · by fight_truth_decay · 111 replies · 2,566+ views
    MichelleMalkin.com ^ | February 11, 2005 10:56 PM | By Michelle Malkin
    For those of us in the information business, this is truly an earth-shaking time. Who would have imagined that the downfall of one of the world's most powerful news executives would be precipitated by an ordinary citizen blogging his eyewitness report at Davos in the wee hours of the morning on Jan. 27? It's simply stunning. The courage of Rony Abovitz cannot be overstated. This ordinary American citizen raised his voice at an international forum of media and political heavyweights--also attended by Europe's most influential America-haters--and demanded that Eason Jordan back up his poisonous assertion about the American military targeting...