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Scott W. Johnson (born 1950) is an American lawyer, executive and a blogger at Power Line. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law as an attorney, Counsel or Solicitor; a person See Electric power transmission for the more common use of this term

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Legal and business career

Johnson was born in North Dakota to a Jewish family. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ He received a Bachelor's Degree from Dartmouth College in 1973 and subsequently undertook a law degree at the University of Minnesota

At one stage, he was a partner of John Hinderaker at Faegre and Benson. Dartmouth College ( is a private, Coeducational University located in Hanover, New Hampshire, U The University of Minnesota Twin Cities ( U of M or The U) is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system. John H Hinderaker (born September 1950 (the name is pronounced hinder-rocker is a conservative American Lawyer and a Blogger at the Power Line He is now Vice-President of the TCF National Bank in Minneapolis.

Public policy

Johnson started working with Hinderaker on opinion pieces on tax, welfare reform and other public policy issues. The articles were run in conservative publications such as National Review and a wide range of newspapers. National Review ( NR) is a biweekly Magazine and Web site, founded by the late author William F Both Johnson and Hinderaker became involved with the Claremont Institute along with Paul Mirengoff, who was Hinderaker's roommate at Dartmouth. The Claremont Institute is a conservative Think tank based in Claremont California. Paul Mirengoff (born April 17, 1949) is a Blogger at the Power Line weblog and an Attorney.

Power Line

Hinderaker, Johnson and Mirengoff founded the Power Line Blog in 2002. It quickly became a popular site for conservatives as blogging became more important in politics. On September 9, 2004 Johnson posted the "61st Minute" on flaws in the Killian documents used on a 60 Minutes Wednesday story on the George W. Bush military service controversy. Events 1000 - Battle of Svolder, Viking Age. 1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Not to be confused with the BBC news magazine program Sixty Minutes (TV series. The George W Bush military service controversy was an issue in the 2000 presidential campaign and in the 2004 presidential campaign.

The story quickly spread to other blogs and then to the mainstream media. After defending the veracity of the documents for two weeks, CBS reversed its position and admitted that the documents had not been properly authenticated. After an internal investigation, producer Mary Mapes was fired by CBS, several other executives resigned and CBS apologised to viewers. Mary Mapes is an American Journalist and former Television News producer. In 2005, Mapes published a book Truth and Duty claiming that Karl Rove was the mastermind behind the attacks. Karl Christian Rove (born December 25, 1950) was Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W The CBS public eye stated in a review "there's no evidence brought forth - just assertion. "[1]

As a result of the 61st Minute Power Line became even more popular obtaining half a million hits on US Election Day in November 2004. The site was named as the first Time Blog of the Year with Lev Grossman writing in the article "Before this year, blogs were a curiosity, a cult phenomenon, a faintly embarrassing hobby on the order of ham radio and stamp collecting. But in 2004 blogs unexpectedly vaulted into the pantheon of major media, alongside TV, radio and, yes, magazines, and it was Power Line, more than any other blog, that got them there. "[2] As a result of the increased profile, Johnson was asked to appear on television political shows on networks such as CNN. Cable News Network, usually referred to by its Initialism CNN, is a major English language Television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner

References

  1. ^ CBS News Public Eye "Mary's Land: Planet of the Mapes" November 20, 2005
  2. ^ Time Magazine Media Release "Time names Power Line 2004 Blog of the Year" 19 December 2004

External links

Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale. 2005. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC


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