Michael C. Moynihan Biography
Michael C. Moynihan is a journalist from the United States working as the National Correspondent for Vice News and co-host of The Fifth Column podcast. He was formerly The Daily Beast/cultural Newsweek’s news editor, Vice magazine’s managing editor, and a senior editor of the libertarian magazine Purpose.
Moynihan was also a resident fellow of the Swedish free-market think-tank Timbro, where he lived and wrote articles in Swedish-language publications on politics in the region, including Expressen, Aftonbladet, Sveriges Television, Neo, and Göteborgs-Tidningen.
How old is Michael C. Moynihan? – Age
Moynihan is 46 years old as of 24 August 2020. He was born in 1974 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Michael C. Moynihan Wife
Moynihan is a married man. His wife is not known to the public.
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“In 2012 and 2013, Moynihan contributed the “Righteous Gentile” column to Tablet Magazine. He maintained in the column that the Russia Today (RT) news network is a propaganda source. Moynihan revealed evidence that Bob Dylan’s quotes had been invented by New York author Jonah Lehrer. The article led to the resignation of Lehrer and to the removal from the publication of two of his three novels. In a March 2013 Daily Beast/Newsweek post, he disclosed that he sent a “handful of problematic passages” from Lehrer’s third novel, Imagine, to the publisher.
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Since 2012, Moynihan has been the editor of cultural news for The Daily Beast/Newsweek. He has criticized the fondness of Robert Bork for censorship and the respect of Sean Penn for Hugo Chavez. In a November 2012 post, he ridiculed the granting of the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union. Moynihan described Dennis Rodman as “his generation’s dull-witted John Reed” He described Peter Kuznick and Oliver Stone’s book The Untold Past of the United States as “junk history” and “a marvel of historical illiteracy”
He wrote after the death of Nelson Mandela that “while Mandela was richly deserving of his Nobel Prize, he wasn’t a saint”; he called him a “moral failure” after the abdication of Pope Benedict XVI; he condemned the nostalgia for the crime-ridden New York of the 1970s that was on show at the inauguration after Bill de Blasio was elected Mayor of New York.
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Moynihan is the editor-in-chief of both Reason magazine and its website, Reason.com. In August 2007, he joined the magazine’s staff. In May 2010, Moynihan announced his participation in the Everybody Draw Mohammed Day protest campaign, which started in May 2010. The campaign grew in reaction to Comedy Central’s censorship of a South Park episode featuring the Prophet Muhammad.
In a book review for the Wall Street Journal, he said author Dominic Sandbrook was guilty in his book review of the book “ignoring the codes and courtesies of historical scholarship” of “Flunking Free Speech on College Campuses” The following year, he told the New York Observer that he was shocked to see Sandbrook’s book “published in paperback with no corrections” after it was published in paperback in 2010. In 2010, he urged his readers to submit their sketches of Muhammad to the Cause website on May 20.