Sonny Bunch, a free-wheeling conservative editor and columnist for the Washington Free Beacon, is set to write as a guest blogger at the Washington Post.
Most notable: Bunch’s writing will be featured on the pop culture “Act Four” blog, typically helmed by outspoken liberal journalist Alyssa Rosenberg.
Rosenberg made the announcement on her blog Tuesday evening, explaining that she will be in Los Angeles attending a convention for journalists for the rest of the week.
“Sonny and I come from rather different ideological perspectives, though I often think of us as engaged in a similar project, given the way we write about how culture, politics, manners and mores all work on each other,” Rosenberg wrote.
“I’m particularly pleased to have him here with us for a few days because our conversations have shaped a great deal of my thinking about everything from Gamergate [a controversy centered on sexism within the video game culture] as an inevitable adoption of very successful Left critiques of culture to the outrage we ought to feel about the theft of intimate photos of female celebrities.” she said.
“Most of all, he’s made me think hard about what it means for us to live at a time when every aspect of life is so often intensely politicized and how to develop coherent and livable standards for living in such an environment.”
Prior to being the Free Beacon’s executive editor, Bunch worked at the Washington Times and the Weekly Standard.
When the Free Beacon first started publishing in early 2012, it was mostly a peripheral, though feisty, nonprofit news organization pushing a neoconservative view. But through a series of serious scoops and a mildly bizarre fascination with model and actress Kate Upton, the outlet and its writers have increasingly edged their way into the mainstream. Bunch’s guest spot at the Post serving as the latest example of that transformation.
