Matthew Continetti

Matthew Continetti (born June 24, 1981) is a conservative journalist and associate editor at The Weekly Standard.^[1][2]

Biography

He graduated from Columbia University in 2003.^[3] While in college he wrote for the Columbia Spectator and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's magazine, CAMPUS.^[3] In summer 2002 he did a Collegiate Network internship at the National Review, where he worked as a research assistant for Richard Lowry.^[3][4] He joined the Weekly Standard as an editorial assistant, and later became associate editor.^[3]

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.^[2] 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.^[2]

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)

References

1. ^ Weekly Standard editorial board
2. ^ ^{a b c} Weekly Standard biography
3. ^ ^{a b c d} Intercollegiate Studies Institute biography
4. ^ Richard Lowry, Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years, Regnery Publishing, 2004, p. 343 [1]
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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