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	Jon Ronson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jon Ronson (born in 1967) is a Cardiff born Jewish journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and radio presenter.
		The journalists Louis Theroux and John Safran have cited Ronson as an influence.
		Ronson investigates people such as Major General Albert Stubblebine III, former head of intelligence, who believe that people can walk through walls with the right mental preparation—and that goats can be killed simply by staring at them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jon_Ronson (846 words)

	Them: Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson \| The Death Cookie
		Jon Ronson, according to the "about the author" blurb in this book, is an award-winning journalist and documentary film maker who lives in London.
		Ronson spent about five years hanging around with all sorts of extrememists, from Osama Bin Laden's "Man in London" to the leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
		In the end, Ronson's impression of the Bilderbergers seems to be that they're more a bunch of overgrown frat boys than a malicious secret society.
	www.deathcookie.com /node/491 (312 words)

	Amazon.de: The Men Who Stare at Goats: English Books: Jon Ronson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ronson meets one ex-Army employee who claims to have killed a goat and his pet hamster by staring at them for prolonged periods of time.
		Ronson meets a general who is frustrated in his frequent attempts to walk through walls.
		As Ronson reveals, a secret wing of the U.S. military called First Earth Battalion was created in 1979 with the purpose of creating "Warrior Monks," soldiers capable of walking through walls, becoming invisible, reading minds and even killing a goat simply by staring at it.
	www.amazon.de /Men-Who-Stare-Goats/dp/product-description/0743241924 (597 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Them: Adventures with Extremists: Books: Jon Ronson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ronson, a consummate faux-naïf, inevitably treads similar ground to Louis Theroux, though perhaps with a lighter, more disingenuous patter, which sustains him in encounters that veer from the extraordinary to the mundane at dizzying pace, and blur the space between.
		While Jon Ronson attemps to locate the secret room, he is chased by men in dark glasses, unmasked as a Jew in the middle of a Jihad training camp, and witnesses CEOs and leading politicians undertake a bizarre pagan owl ritual in the forests of Northern California.
		Ronson does a good job, until the end of the book, to not give his personal opinion of it and you have to form your own judgement.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Them-Adventures-Extremists-Jon-Ronson/dp/0330375466 (1712 words)

	Amazon.ca: Them : Adventures with Extremists: Books: Jon Ronson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Jon's account of visiting with extremists of various sorts is engaging in the sense that he makes you wish you had the time to do what he did in writing the book.
		Jon Ronson makes an attempt to get you "sympethetic" about so-called extremists, that they're just trapped in their own minds, when he really has no evidence that they're wrong in their theories.
		Jon Ronson like's to make himself look good and make himself look like the most intelligent in each situation, when he really is the ignorant one.
	www.amazon.ca /Them-Adventures-Extremists-Jon-Ronson/dp/0743233212 (1865 words)

	about jon ronson \| jonronson.com
		It takes a funny man to see the humor in all the conspiracy theories that float hatefully across the land, and Jon Ronson is a funny man. It takes a brave man to chase that humor right into the belly of the beast, and Jon Ronson is a brave man too.
		Jon Ronson is a writer and documentary film maker.
		For Channel 4, Jon has made the acclaimed five part series the Secret Rulers of the World, the multi award-winning Tottenham Ayatollah, New Klan, New York to California (A Great British Odyssey), Dr Paisley, I Presume, the four-part series Critical Condition, and the late-night chat show For The Love Of...
	www.jonronson.com (385 words)

	Jon Ronson - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ronson's profile of Bakri, originally published in the Guardian, spawned a book -- "Them: Adventures With Extremists" -- which hit U.S. bookstores last month amid a flurry of public outrage and controversy as well as a crop of rave reviews.
		These wackos -- whom Ronson doesn't view in as dangerous a light as one might expect -- are linked in their obsession with the Bilderberg Group, a semisecret organization that includes most of the world's financial and political leaders.
		A nebbishy, Woody Allen-like fellow, Ronson could not be further from the stereotype of the hard-boiled investigative journalist.
	www.salon.com /people/conv/2002/03/14/ronson (633 words)

	Comment is free: Jon Ronson Profile
		Jon Ronson is an author, journalist and documentary film maker.
		In the UK, Jon writes features and a column for the Guardian, and presents the Sony nominated BBC Radio 4 series Jon Ronson On...
		Jon's third book, Out of the Ordinary: True Tales of Everyday Craziness will be published in the autumn.
	commentisfree.guardian.co.uk /jon_ronson/profile.html (114 words)

	Jon Ronson, an interview
		Jon Ronson: There was indeed much madness in those columns, but I wouldn't say that they had any relation to the later books.
		Jon Ronson: I have only got my TV persona (if it IS a 'persona', that is, I'm not sure that it is a persona) right on a few occasions: Secret Rulers of the World and Tottenham Ayatollah.
		Jon Ronson: In 1995 the CIA declassified the fact that the Army had a team of psychic spies, and they'd been trying to be psychic for 23 years.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /elizabeth.ercocklly/jon.htm (3110 words)

	Them : Adventures With Extremists by Jon Ronson - 0743227077
		As a journalist and a Jew, Ronson was often considered one of "Them," but he had no idea if their meetings actually took place and, if so, where.
		Ronson decided to settle the matter himself, seeking out the supposed secret rulers of the world by way of those who seem to know most about them: the extremists.
		But the more Ronson tries to expose the emptiness of these conspiracies, the less and less he's certain that the extremists are crazy.
	www.allbookstores.com /book/0743227077/Jon_Ronson/Them.html (432 words)

	Jon Ronson On
		Journalist and broadcaster Jon Ronson looks at the human condition with the help of interviewees and reporters from the world of writing and performance.
		He also meets comedian Jon Holmes, whose parents are 'invisible' to him as he is adopted, and Maggie O'Farrell who recalls her time as a chamber maid, cleaning hotel rooms while guests carried on extremely personal activities.
		Jon talks to Jeremy Dyson who's father changed his life by providing a trip to a Blackpool joke shop and Danny Wallace who takes it upon himself to perform random acts of kindness.
	www.radiolistings.co.uk /programmes/jon_ronson_on.html (739 words)

	The Men Who Stare at Goats - Jon Ronson
		Ronson writes as much about schemes that were only contemplated as about the ones that actually made the cut.
		Ronson, a filmmaker and journalist whose earlier book, ''Them: Adventures With Extremists,'' was also outstandingly artful and chilling, eventually follows his trail of bread crumbs to the realms that really matter.
		Ronson, who lives in London and exclaims the occasional ''bloody hell'' at these discoveries, remains terrifically adept at capturing the horror of these developments without losing track of their lunacy.
	www.wanttoknow.info /050513menwhostareatgoatsjonronson (1438 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "Them: Adventures With Extremists" by Jon Ronson
		Ronson first published "Them" in England before the terrorist attacks so he can hardly be blamed for plying the popular pre-Sept. 11 trade of ironic reportage.
		Ronson, who identifies himself as a Jew, never directly condemns the ADL, but with pointed rhetorical questions he casts doubt on the group's claim that "one out of eight Americans has hard-core Anti-Semitic feelings." He also questions the ADL's focus on "code" words.
		No way, Ronson declares when he gets in an argument with a handful of Bilderberg haters: The markets rule the world, not a band of leaders, and those who think otherwise are in danger of becoming as ridiculous and dangerous as the American government they love to hate.
	archive.salon.com /books/review/2002/01/10/ronson/index.html (1182 words)

	Jon Ronson: Multimedia Video and Audio archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Jon Ronson watches as David Icke battles with the mainstream media while gaining public support as his books fly off the shelves.
		Jon Ronson and Jim Tucker piss off the "non existent" Bilderberg group, catching it all on film.
		Jon Ronson looks at the history of some outlandish projects researched by the US government during the Cold War era and investigates whether some of them are back in vogue.
	www.rinf.com /articles/jon-ronson.html (585 words)

	> Jon Ronson Books: THEM & Men Who Stare at Goats
		Jon Ronson's best-selling book, Them: Adventures with Extremists is a fascinating but often hilarious journey into the shadowy world of paranoid conspiracists.
		Ronson's followup to his highly acclaimed bestseller, THEM, reveals extraordinary (and very nutty) national secrets at the core of George W Bush's War on Terror.
		Ronson follows these strange activities, and how they evolved over the past three decades to be alive and well today within US Homeland Security.
	www.davegeeonline.com /book/jon-ronson-them-goats.htm (363 words)

	Amazon.com: Them: Adventures with Extremists: Books: Jon Ronson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Jon Ronson spent a couple years looking for, interviewing and hanging out with people who are viewed by the mainstream as "wackos" or extremists.
		Ronson writes with a real wit that is sure to entertain both those who side with the conspiracy theorists he rubs shoulders with, and those who regard such folks with the deepest suspicion.
		Ronson's too close for comfort encounter with the Bilderberg group is hilarious, and the final chapter, in which he infiltrates a gathering of owl worshiping elitists at Bohemian Grove, poses more questions than it answers.
	amazon.com /Them-Adventures-Extremists-Jon-Ronson/dp/.../0743227077 (4474 words)

	The Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon Ronson: Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It's much to Ronson's credit that, though he lets the madness speak for itself, his deadpan style allows us to laugh and shudder simultaneously at this Catch-22 world.
		Ronson's writing is highly entertaining, but the deadly implications of the subject beg for a deeper exploration.
		It's apparent that Ronson interviewed at least a couple of semi-delusional self-promoters, but made next to no effort to check up on their sources.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/ronsonjon/menwhostareatgoats (572 words)

	Jon Ronson
		And after all that, Jon Ronson Does Alpha and I only learn about it from the Evening Standard.
		When someone asked Jon if he was worried that his work would attract Conspiracy Theorists he typed (presumably dictated):
		Jon may be shocked to be included in Conspiracy Theorists We Admire.
	clublet.com /c/c/why?JonRonson (312 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THEM by Jon Ronson
		Unlike comedians and essayists, who are always commenting on things, Ronson is a journalist; he exposes the silly underbelly of pompous people by using their own words against them.
		For this reason Ronson's conversation with Rachel Weaver, the daughter of over-persecuted isolationist Randy Weaver, is less funny than the rest of the book.
		One gets the sense, and Ronson does too, that many of these people are as interested in being famous as they are in advancing their causes.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0743227077.asp (796 words)

	Vivienne Clore represents Jon Ronson
		Jon Ronson is a writer, broadcaster and film maker.
		Jon has produced highly lauded series: most recently the fascinating “Secret Rulers Of The World” (World of Wonder Prods for Ch4).
		Jon has written the weekly “Human Zoo” column in The Guardian, columns for Elle magazine and The Evening Standard, as well as writing for numerous newspapers and magazines across the world, from The Times to The Sunday Correspondent, to The Independent, to The Village Voice.
	www.vivienneclore.com /articles/Jon_287026_30.html (182 words)

	village voice > books > Jon Ronson's The Men Who Stare at Goats by Peter L'Official
		Ronson, "essentially a humorous journalist" in his own estimation, peeks into the mind of a military shaken to its core after Vietnam's failure and desperate to welcome new-age methodologies for both battle and interrogation.
		Ronson's humor rightly evaporates once he connects these flower-child-like forays into psych warfare with their bastardization at Abu Ghraib.
		Ignoring all distinction between the merely absurd and the sublimely ridiculous, Ronson's account subtly implies that the eccentric, the clownish, and the more Machiavellian members of society are often one and the same.
	www.villagevoice.com /books/0515,bkl'official,62949,10.html (394 words)

	channel4.com CRAZY RULERS OF THE WORLD
		Three years in the making, Jon Ronson’s Crazy Rulers of the World explores the apparent madness at the heart of US military intelligence.
		With first-hand access to the leading players in the story, Jon Ronson examines the extraordinary - and plain bizarre - national secrets at the core of George W Bush's war on terror.
		In programme two, Jon Ronson reveals how the New Age movement of the 1980s has influenced interrogation at Guantanamo Bay and in post-war Iraq.
	www.channel4.com /life/microsites/C/crazy_rulers/index.html (154 words)

	Them: Adventures with Extremists, by Jon Ronson - The Northern Rivers Echo
		Journalist-by-day Jon Ronson has linked the dots together to come up with a startling and humorous - and not completely unsympathetic - picture of these extremists and their beliefs in his new extended piece of journalism, Them.
		Ultimately, Ronson deflates the building tension in Them by rationalising that the secret conspiracy his extremists have been describing is really just capitalism at work, albeit in a way that journalists don't usually highlight (a fact that will always be interpreted in certain hands as being part of the plot).
		Ronson's final point that both 'sides' are prone to paranoia and exaggeration is convincingly made.
	www.echonews.com /818/book_reviews.html (767 words)

	Jon Ronson Interview: Questions & Answers Session (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Jon Ronson: There's a line in Them where I say, "Thank God I don't believe in the secret rulers of the world.
		Jon Ronson: It is fascinating to me how the dynamic has changed.
		Jon Ronson: I was interviewed by The Times recently, and Caitlin Moran, who interviewed me, wrote: "It's to reassure himself that behind every fringe element bent on world domination, there are people doing foolish things.
	www.rinf.com /articles/jon-ronson-q-a.html (1195 words)

	Amazon.de: Them: Adventures with Extremists: English Books: Jon Ronson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In Them, British humorist Jon Ronson relates his misadventures as he engages an assortment of theorists and activists residing on the fringes of the political, religious, and sociological spectrum.
		Despite these characters' disparities, they are bound by a belief in the Bilderberg Group, the "secret rulers of the world." In a final chapter, Ronson manages, with surprising ease, to penetrate these rulers' very lair.
		U.K. journalist Ronson offers a look into the world of political, cultural and religious "extremists" who dwell at the edges of popular culture and the conspiracy theorists who love them.
	www.amazon.de /Them-Adventures-Extremists-Jon-Ronson/dp/0743227077 (374 words)

	Them, by Jon Ronson
		Just getting close to his subjects--who all had at the core of their beliefs an extreme paranoia--must have been an enormous project unto itself.
		Ronson is Jewish, so that adds a definite tension to his interviews (some of his subjects comment directly on his ethnicity, some don't but are obviously aware, and with others it's hard to tell).
		I thought Ronson was saying that no one admitted even knowing about the group and suddenly he seems to show it exists--but then in the next chapter it sounds like people do know and say it exists, but it's just hard to find out much about it.
	www.uvm.edu /~lpwillia/books/them.html (564 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Men Who Stare at Goats: Books: Jon Ronson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Jon Ronson is probably better suited to the medium of text than the airwaves.
		All of the wealth of information that Ronson provides is delivered in a trademark jaunty and incredulous style, which mixes healthy sceptisism with a willingness to believe the incredible.
		If you enjoy Ronson's work, from his newspaper column to 'Them', or enjoy the style of comic writing that is also used by Bill Bryson amongst others, this will be a very enjoyable read.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Men-Who-Stare-Goats/dp/0330375482 (1446 words)

	hackwriters.com - Them by Jon Ronson - Dan Schnieder review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ronson seemingly wants to show that there is not much of a difference between the extremist and the dull ‘average man’.
		Another flaw is that Ronson seems to stage many of the events in his book, lying to get into certain events, and melodramaticizing innately dull scenes, as well as merely leaving things stated that need some further comment upon.
		Yes, Ronson is about as stylish with words as I am with haberdashery, but a little more depth and a little less self-conscious striving for grotesques would have gone a long way, and perhaps still left a fizz of humor in this sadly outdated book.
	www.hackwriters.com /them.htm (819 words)

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