Careercow Ben Collins / Benjamin Thomas Collins / @oneunderscore__ - Journo Scum

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Trianon said:
How has he lived in the world for 30 years and ever, once, expected that there would be any money at all in journalism OR in publishing?
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He doesn't have to care about that.
AirdropShitposts said:
McClatchy (recently saved from bankruptcy after purchasing too many assets by some hedge fund) owns the Kansas City Star and also has tons of online assets. You absolutely could have a "viable career" at both these if your intent isn't to become a Twitter-obsessed faggot in NYC appearing on MSNBC. You'd actually have to do journalism though.
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If he wasn't an absolute idiot he'd know the main reason there aren't meaningful jobs at these "local" newspapers is they're almost all owned these days by faceless multinationals pushing an agenda. And it's the same agenda this faggot is pushing, globohomo.

But having local journalism that is actually local would get in the way of disinformation artists like Ben.

Yet again, a globohomo shill complaining about the world he helped create.
 
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Trianon said:
Ben writes like everything he experiences is brand-new to him and all his thoughts have been unthought by everyone who came before.
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He writes like someone who has never intentionally committed a crime, gone over the speed limit, been mean to someone, made a racist comment, read "Stuff Black People Don't Like", killed an animal with a gun, tagged a wall, shoplifted, used his foot to shove a dog out of the way, smoked a fag behind the portables at school, gotten head behind the portables at school, cheered at a video of the police making good a shitbag, done illegal drugs, done dabs with the cousins on family holidays, drove tipsy, gone to work drunk, cheated on a test, cheated on a partner, cheated on taxes....

I have journo friends who do actual good journalism and I think you need to be a little bit of a Slytherin. You don't want to show up at the door of a source looking like you're there to tell them the good news about Mormonism.

Not earth-shaking journalism but an example of being a bit shady is this: there was a puff piece in the NYT this weekend about the woman who plays Flo from Progressive. The NYT editor ORDERED the journo not to get the caviar, but "Flo" was like "Fuckit, I'm getting the caviar and I will share." This triggered a wholeass discussion between the journo and her editor about ethics in puff-piece journalism.

Ben Collins would not be a party to ordering the $85 caviar, and he's a worse journo for it.
 
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CervixHammer said:
Who moderates the moderators, Ben?
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I found this "New York Times Pitchbot" Xitter account today. Every post is implying that NYT is just so, so mean to Democrats and never, ever. ever says good things about them!

This is what retards like Ben mean when he says mainstream media "bothsides" and didn't "appropriately grill" Republicans.

They want the media to be a propaganda hugbox where an unflattering word is never said about a fellow liberal, no matter how true.
 
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CervixHammer said:
Who moderates the moderators, Ben?
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What is he even talking about with "the internet is bad right now"? I'm flabbergasted at how willing this guy is to publicly tell people he thinks everything is Twitter (and its spin-offs/clones/etc.) and all that matters is Twitter.

You think this is pretty obvious but let me point out that Taylor Lorenz, yes, Taylor Lorenz spends much of her time and focus on things like YouTube, TikTok, etc. and Twitter is nowhere near the main subject of her new book. Even Ben used to know this too because he spent all his time fearmongering about obscure forums and stuff like 4chan.

Elon buying Twitter seems to have turned this dude from a piece of shit propagandist for the powerful into an even more delusional conspiracy theorist who openly talks about quitting his job to chase the conspiracy that exists only in his head.
 
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So, Ben realized and openly admitted that he is a "weird, unsexy scold" (great description BTW) but then the conclusion he drew from this was that he simply has not been scolding hard enough. Journalists just need to listen to people less and censor more. It has worked so well so far!

His recent Twitter is not much except retweets and a few different boring threads about Elon Musk. Don't worry Ben, maybe one day he'll reply to one of your DMs. You'll agree to meet up, so you can sort out your differences tête-à-tête, mano a mano. You'll sit down across a table in a private space, and start arguing with each other. The heat and rush of all the emotions will cause one of you to loosen his collar, then remove his shirt. You'll pause, gazing angrily but soulfully into each others eyes. And then....?
 
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They already admitted the Laptop was real. Given all the fuckery they have pulled they would have already destroyed it if it was fake like they claimed.

Not only that, the fact is we have all the data on the dealings Biden did, the illegal handgun Hunter had, the testimony from Hunter literally selling the "brand" to people of "I can get the VPOTUS on the phone at will".

The sheer denial is amazing.
 
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Something Awful said:
Apparently the "throughline" of Ben's book will be Hunter Biden's laptops. I think I'll wait for the Hollywood adaptation.
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The realness of that laptop is in question only for retards like Ben.

Guiliani hired people to conduct analysis of the laptop and see if it was real, it was. FBI did the same. Then Daily Mail. Then Washington Post. Then the Feds (on the IRS side, I believe). The parties of the emails (Hunter and his associates) have confirmed it is real. Subpoena'd evidence confirmed that like the emails claimed, Joe Biden got 10% cut from Hunter's dealings. You can observe, with your own eyes, videos of Hunter being cracked out and ranting about the Russians blackmailing him.

There's probably some things I'm missing, it's been a while, but the point is that the laptop does not rest on the credibility of the repair shopsman. Just about literally only Ben believes it was fake.
 
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So the throughline of his book is an unclear theory whose proponents might go a bit too far in their claims that all of the most powerful institutions in media ignored or outright tried to suppress? Including a whole bunch of former government officials coming out to falsely declare as a Russian plot? He's going to cover that last part right? And the fact none of them have recanted and are still platformed regularly by the media including one Ben "allegedly" still works for?
 
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KiwiFuzz said:
Ben Collins would not be a party to ordering the $85 caviar, and he's a worse journo for it.
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I don't believe that for a second. I believe Ben would be party to it, but would want to keep it a secret, and when it came out he'd have increasingly shrill defences - 'technically I didn't order it! She made me! I only did it because I'm a good journalist trying to get the story, it's not my fault! She tricked me!'

I don't think Ben has never done anything wrong. But I think he  believes that he hasn't, and has easily convinced himself that none of the things he's done, that an outside observer would look at and say were bad, were really his fault. He definitely believes he shouldn't face consequences for any of them, that at worst maybe Past Ben was misled or in a bad place but that's not who Ben Collins really is.

I think your point about journalists is good, but the journalist needs to know they're being shady, know they're breaking a rule, however unwritten or minor, but be willing to do it anyway to do the job well. Ben, and those like him, are the opposite, happily breaking all the rules but convinced it's because they're morally correct in doing so. You can see it in their verbal posturing about their behaviour, in the difference between cancel culture and accountability, between doxing and publicly available background information.

Tl;dr: Ben is a wokescold, and like most wokescolds is far guiltier of bad behaviour than the people he rages about, it's just fine when he does it for reasons.
 
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