Tim Cavanaugh is a journalist and screenwriter based in Alexandria, Virginia. He is a news editor for ''

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''. Prior to that, he was News Editor for ''

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'', Executive Editor for ''

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'', Managing Editor for ''

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magazine'', Web editor of the ''

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'' opinion page, and was the

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of the website ''

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'' from 1998 to 2001. Cavanaugh was born and raised in

Margate City, New Jersey Margate City is a city in Atlantic County, New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, Margate City's population was 5,317, a reduction of 1,037 over the previous decade.Atlantic City High School Atlantic City High School (ACHS) is a comprehensive public high school in Atlantic City, in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. It is the lone secondary school of the Atlantic City School District. The current school building opened in ...

. Cavanaugh is a winner of two Los Angeles Press Club awards and a Webby Award. His work has appeared in ''The Washington Post'', ''The Boston Globe'', ''Slate'', ''The San Francisco Chronicle'', ''The Beirut Daily Star'', ''San Francisco Magazine'', ''Mother Jones'', ''Agence France-Presse'', ''Wired'', ''Newsday'', ''Salon'', ''Orange County Register'', ''The Rake magazine'', and other publications. His satirical 2002 article mocking weblogs,
Let Slip the Blogs of War
(an update of a
earlier article
in Suck), infuriated many bloggers and was included in

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's anthology ''We've Got Blog''. Nonetheless, Cavanaugh instituted Reason's popular weblog Hit & Run, which won a Weblog Award in 2005. Cavanaugh wrote the screenplay for ''Home Run Showdown'', a 2012

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family baseball movie featuring

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Dean Cain Dean George Cain ( Tanaka; born July 31, 1966) is an American actor. From 1993 to 1997, he played Clark Kent / Superman in the TV series '' Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman''. Cain was the host of ''Ripley's Believe It or Not!'' an ...

and

Annabeth Gish Anne Elizabeth "Annabeth" Gish (born March 13, 1971) is an American actress. She has played roles in films '' Shag'', '' Hiding Out'', ''Mystic Pizza'', '' SLC Punk!'', '' The Last Supper'' and '' Double Jeopardy''. On television, she played Spe ...

References

External links

National Review Online
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