Over the course of his 25 - year career, Mattox has: * written numerous articles for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA TODAY, and other major
publications; * spoken at educational conferences in Geneva, Prague, Rome, and Vatican City; * led writing workshops at Duke, Vanderbilt, the University of Virginia, and other major universities; * served as a speechwriter for several Members of Congress in Washington, D.C.; * directed a documentary film and a number of other media projects, including a public
service ad campaign that ran in
Rolling Stone; and * spearheaded a number of quantitative and qualitative research projects, working closely with polling firms, focus group organizers, and «think tank» scholars.
The capitulation of local
publications like this one to the travesty of releasing public funds to private institutions without public oversight to perform government
services that are suppose to be available equally to EVERYONE, as said
publications, like this one, seek the favor of the powers that be is equavalent to how the national media
rolled over and played dead during the lead up to the Iraq war.