Matthew Continetti

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Matthew Continetti (born June 24, 1981) is a conservative journalist and editor-in-chief of the Washington Free Beacon.[1]

[edit] Biography

He graduated from Columbia University in 2003.[2] While in college he wrote for the Columbia Spectator and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's magazine, CAMPUS.[2] In summer 2002 he did a Collegiate Network internship at the National Review, where he worked as a research assistant for Richard Lowry.[2][3] He joined the Weekly Standard as an editorial assistant, and later became associate editor.[2]

His articles and reviews have also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and The Financial Times.[4] He has also been an on-camera contributor to Bloggingheads.tv.[5] He has criticized Glenn Beck's rating as "nonsense."[6] He has argued the American media turned on Sarah Palin during the 2008 campaign because they had blind allegiance to Barack Obama.[7] He has criticized American academia as uniformly leftwing.[8]

He lives in Arlington, Virginia.[4]

[edit] Bibliography

  • The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine, Doubleday (2006)
  • The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star (2009)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Washington Free Beacon Masthead
  2. ^ a b c d Intercollegiate Studies Institute biography
  3. ^ Richard Lowry, Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years, Regnery Publishing, 2004, p. 343 [1]
  4. ^ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named weekly; see Help:Cite errors/Cite error references no text
  5. ^ Bloggingheads webpage
  6. ^ John Nichols, The "S" Word: A Short History of an American Tradition...Socialism, Verso Books, 2011 [2]
  7. ^ Michael Graham, That's No Angry Mob, That's My Mom: Team Obama's Assault on Tea-Party, Talk-Radio Americans, Regnery Publishing, 2010, p. 166 [3]
  8. ^ Bruce Elliott Johansen, Silenced!: academic freedom, scientific inquiry, and the First Amendment under siege in America, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007, p. 129 [4]
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