Posted on 08/19/2022 2:29:48 PM PDT by lowbridge
The New York Times announced Thursday that it has hired Buzzfeed News’s Ken Bensinger to “pioneer a new beat” covering right-wing media — the same Ken Bensinger, the Times omits in its announcement, who first reported the Steele Dossier.
New York Times Politics Editor David Halbfinger declared in a splashy release that Bensinger would join the “democracy team” on the Politics Desk, covering right-wing media as his full-time beat.
The statement provides an exhaustive list of topics and stories Bensinger has covered — from campaign finance, to “political disinformation,” to the Oath Keepers’ finances. Curiously absent, however, is any mention of Bensinger being the lead reporter on the uncritical Buzzfeed story that injected the infamous Steele Dossier into the public conversation in 2017, with the headline: “These Reports Allege Trump Has Deep Ties To Russia.”
The Dossier was eventually revealed to be full of false information, after it was used as the basis for the “Russia collusion” investigation that consumed the majority of former President Donald Trump’s term, ultimately proving to be a hoax.
Bensinger never reported any follow-up stories on the topic of the Dossier, according to his byline on Buzzfeed, after it was confirmed to be disinformation.
The bulk of his work following that story focused on foreign workers being employed at Trump properties.
Halbfinger writes of Bensinger’s work:
That digging was terrific preparation for Ken’s new beat, filled as it is with people who reject mainstream narratives and question the institutions that hold up our democracy. Understanding the way information is developed, circulated and absorbed on the right is vital at this precarious moment, and requires a healthy measure of patience, empathy and understanding along with investigative chops, skepticism and toughness.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
The propagandists change chairs.
He’ll last about as long as that goofy woman heading the Disinfo Bureau a few months back.
filled as it is with people who reject mainstream narratives and question the institutions that hold up our democracy.
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Mainstream narratives are propaganda and smart people reject them as such.
The institutions are upholding the type of tyranny that our founders warned of.
But, butt, butt, Mr. Potatoe Head is available to cover the RW Media beat.
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It’s all about Get Trump.
24 x 7, and nothing is off-limits.
I’m sure they consulted with the agencies that Leak to them.
If “right wing media” is different from the New York times — then that means it reports actual news.
Sounds like he’s well qualified to write fake news for the slimes.
What’s the problem
why not, the Slimes is integrity and honesty free, so...
“...covering right-wing media...”
What is this “right-wing” media their talking about? What channel? It’s certainly not on cable. Fox News is not right wing, certainly nothing like CNN and MSDNC or any of the broadcast networks. So I gather that this Ken Bensinger is going to have a lot of writers block unless he writes about Free Republic.
Its a weird thing they always repeat - that its “institutions”, mainly government ones, but many others outside of it, that “hold up democracy”.
This is bizarre. Even non-democratic nations have the same institutions. They are required to uphold nation-states, whatever their form of government. In other words the basic thrust of this argument is a lie.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/greg-bensinger
Greg Bensinger
Greg Bensinger joined the New York Times editorial board in 2020. Previously he was a staff writer for the Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal where he covered the world’s largest technology companies. Prior to that he worked for Bloomberg News writing about the telecommunications and auto industries. A native of Seattle, he holds a B.A. in English literature from the University of Virginia and an M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University. He now lives in San Francisco.
Honest reporting is not a wanted qualification for applying smear-artists at the New York Slimmers.
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