NW Examiner Smokes Out Critic

By NIGEL JAQUISS
 

Anybody who has ever wondered about the identity of an anonymous blog commenter will enjoy the current edition [PDF] of the NW Examiner, the scrappy neighborhood paper that covers Northwest Portland.

The Examiner's Allan Classen and Mike Ryerson figured out that a Portland real estate executive named Brian Owendoff was making nice to Mayor Sam Adams in public and then using the veil of anonymity to slam him online—and doing the same to Examiner Editor and Publisher Classen. Here's what they found:

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