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Mark Charles Ebner (born 1959) is an American blogger and investigative journalist and the host of TruTV's Rich and Reckless. Ebner writes primarily about issues in the Los Angeles area, including pit bull fighting in South Central, Scientology, and celebrity scandal.〔(Pit Bullies ) 14 January 2003.〕〔(Ebner Undercover: Scientology, Spy Magazine, 1996 ) ''Hollywood Interrupted''. 23 March 2006.〕 He has covered celebrity culture for ''Spy'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''Details'', and ''Salon.com''.〔Devers, Deirdre (Hollywood Interrupted: Fear and Loathing in LA ) ''Pop Matters''. February 2004.〕 He has been featured as a guest or contributor on VH1, ''The Daily Show'', ''South Park'', CourtTV, and Fox News. == Career == Ebner graduated from Bard College in 1982, where he edited the ''Bard Times.''〔(Bard Times archive ), vol. 1 no. 1, 19 November 1981.〕 In 2002 he co-authored ''Ain't It Cool?: Hollywood's Redheaded Stepchild Speaks Out'' with Harry Knowles. With Andrew Breitbart, he wrote the ''New York Times'' and ''Los Angeles Times'' 2005 best-seller ''Hollywood, Interrupted''.〔 In early 2006, Ebner joined Tucker Max's Rudius Media as a blogger and celebrity journalist. Ebner was a consultant on South Park's controversial Trapped in the Closet episode that was eventually nominated for an Emmy Award. In mid-2007, Ebner broke the news that actor and activist Sean Penn was frequenting a Hawaiian resort in the center of a controversial debate between natives and visitors over an ancestral burial ground. Ebner also broke an investigative story in 2007 implicating Bill Cosby on allegations of sexual assaults and rapes, a story that ''People Magazine'' originally planned to publish, but buried. Shortly after the on-campus shooting at Virginia Tech, Ebner reported that Scientology leaders had dispatched "grief counselors" to the scene. According to Ebner and a supposedly sourced document, their intent was to investigate the psychiatric history of killer Seung-Hui Cho. This story was later picked up by Boing Boing and made the front page of Digg.com. As of Summer 2008, Ebner was hosting ''Rich and Reckless'', an original true crime series produced by and broadcast on TruTV. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark Ebner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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