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Divestment Watch: Adrian Monck weighs in

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Divestment Watch, the now defunct blog maintained by an RBI employee about our divestment by Reed Elsevier refuses to go quietly into the night.
The latest blogger to mention its abrupt curtailment is Adrian Monck, professor of journalism at City University, and one of my favourite journalism bloggers. He explains exactly what sort of [image a blog like that that abruptly vanishing creates](http://adrianmonck.com/2008/06/the-case-of-the-disappearing-reed-elsevier-blog/).

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