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

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News consumers have developed positive relationships with people who know and understand that this is a game, and who actively talk about how they operate within it. It’s why people like Rachel Maddow, who dives into the news through the lens of history and talks like a human being, or podcasters like Michael Hobbes, whose detailed work in defanging moral panics pushed through mainstream sources, have developed fan bases that will follow them anywhere. (A recent episode of Hobbes’ If Books Could Kill, for one, laid out how the pervasive media story of “organized retail theft” is based on an apparently invented metric, forcing retractions from trade groups.)
Rachel Maddow, who said Joy Ann Reid's insane time-traveling Russian hackers excuse never made her more proud of her, claimed that COVID vaccines worked like a shield and prevented you from getting or transmitting the virus, reported who knows how many blatantly false stories about Trump/Russia and has never once in her career critiqued fascism on the "left"?

And Michael Hobbes, a man who peddles so much disinformation that he blocks anyone who ever corrects or critiques it and spends all his time fanning moral panics?
 
I came back to this and realized I was too focused on Ben promoting disinformation peddlers like himself. What's actually more amusing is how it's yet another article where Ben talks about how ignorant of his field he is. This is the way media has been for as long as anyone can remember. And Ben's whole spiel about how people are waking up to the "keyfabe" and it's collapsing as people turn to other sources? First, also ignorant, nobody gave a shit about cable news except people in the media. Second, exactly what Trump and MAGA have been saying, including about Fox News, for how many years now? Congrats Ben, your "deep dive" into the "systemic forces" has yet again aligned you with Donald Trump.

Trump in 2015: "CNN is fake news."
Ben in 2023: "All of cable news [except me?] is fake news!"
 
Ben's complaining that someone who criticized him once has "never met him" again while claiming they're obsessed with him and are a fascist:
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Ben unironically retweets this just days after tweeting this to thousands of likes and retweets:
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The Ben Wars are spreading:
>Be Ben Collins
>Lol
>Be a journalist
>Lol
>Take a shot at Nate Silver
>Instantly get slapped down
>Claim he's obsessed with you
>Everyone watching laughs and shits on you
>Impotently whine about how you could be doing backflips in a Ski-Doo instead of arguing with lame trolls
>Get a call
>It's your editor
>He tells you he wants a story on how to deal with trolls
>He also tells you to check your email
>You find two tickets for you and your wife to Jamaica
>Those tickets also come with a Ski-Doo rental
>Fly down to Jamaica
>You find a chauffeur waiting for you and your wife
>He drives you to your resort
>The resort's name is Hedonism II
>Your wife tells you she personally requested it
>Get checked in
>The resort staff show you to the beach
>You see a pier filled with Ski-Doo rentals
>You want to call your editor and ask him if you really have to go through with the backflips thing
>Your wife has your phone
>You look around to see where she is
>She's laying next to Lady Rackets on a lawn chair as she gets railed by some Jamaican dude
>The resort staff have to drag you to the Ski-Doos
>They were specifically told by your editor to make sure you do this
>The waves are a little choppy
>You're given a life jacket and a padded helmet
>The staff tells you to pull back hard on the handle bars when you catch a wave
>Hop on the Ski-Doo
>Hit the throttle
>Gain some speed
>Find a good wave
>Pull back as hard as you can
>Everything slows down
>Feel yourself turning through the air
>You land
>Backflip completed
>Everyone's looking at you in amazement
>Even your wife bucks off the Jamaican dude railing her so she can be with you
>Raise your arms in triumph as you contemplate the article you're going to write
>Open your eyes
>See a row of white fluorescent lights
>You're laying in a hospital bed
>Ask a nurse what happened to you
>She looks in amazement
>"Bombaclaat, you're truly fortunate, seen? I and I never think you open your eyes again!"
>Ask her what she means
>She pulls out her phone
>You see a video of yourself riding the jet ski
>See yourself go airborne
>You're halfway through the backflip
>You fall off in mid air
>The jet ski lands on top of you
>Remarkably find you're not in a lot of pain
>Turns out your injuries were relatively minor
>And you're on enough painkillers to tranquilize a horse
>Ask where your wife is
>She's still at Hedonism II
>Find your phone
>Check X
>You're trending
>Everyone's shitting on you
>Check your email
>You have a new email from your editor
>He has good news and bad news
>The bad news is your position's been eliminated
>The good news is they're offering you a new position that comes with a pay raise
>But there's a catch
>You're the new extreme sports consultant
>He informs you your next assignment will be covering Russian Wrestleball
>It's basketball where the players suplex the shit out of each other
>He ends the email by telling you to lace up your Nikes
 
Bluesky Ben and Walmart Mike had a slapfight of some sort, Ben hit the block button first and some posts were deleted, which makes it impossible to get screencaps of their bleats in context, so the chronology here is... not great (just like Ben's mental health! :tomgirl: ) :
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This seems to have been the inciting tweet:
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Bluesky Ben and Walmart Mike had a slapfight of some sort, Ben hit the block button first and some posts were deleted, which makes it impossible to get screencaps of their bleats in context, so the chronology here is... not great (just like Ben's mental health! :tomgirl: ) :
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This seems to have been the inciting tweet:
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"My TikTok algorithm ... thinks I'm a black single father."
I-

I think it thinks he's a white woman based on how his Twitter reads.
 
Bluesky Ben and Walmart Mike had a slapfight of some sort, Ben hit the block button first and some posts were deleted, which makes it impossible to get screencaps of their bleats in context, so the chronology here is... not great (just like Ben's mental health! :tomgirl: ) :
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This seems to have been the inciting tweet:
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AJW has been all over this talking point.

To sum up, yeah crime is "objectively" plummeting - because it was insanely high to begin with. Let me make up some numbers to explain how stupid these people are.

Say every year there were 100 murders a year. Then 2020 rolls around and murders skyrocket to 1000 a year. It then doesn't do you any good to say "oh we only had 500 murders this year. Crime is objectively plummeting!" It's still WAY over the low point you moron.
 
Bluesky Ben and Walmart Mike had a slapfight of some sort, Ben hit the block button first and some posts were deleted, which makes it impossible to get screencaps of their bleats in context, so the chronology here is... not great (just like Ben's mental health! :tomgirl: ) :
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This seems to have been the inciting tweet:
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The nigger he is replying to lives in Hoboken. Typical woke white liberal bullshit.

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Go walk around in NYC for a couple days Mikey and say it's fine.
 
>DemSoc liking anarchism

How tf is that supposed to work?
They know that in the minds of the average person, outside of like, the DPRK, socialism and communism = Stalin and Mao, which = mass starvations, executions, and repressive governments. So they flip over from the authoritarian side of the political compass to the libertarian/anarchism side.

Also, socialist governments required everyone to work in the farms or factories, which is of course anathema to 99.99% of internet communists.
 
This thread is full of examples proving that Ben doesn't have the social skills to become a Party apparatchik. :story:
He doesn't have the social skills to become a jizz mopper. And yet "people" like this are somehow considered "disinformation experts." I mean I suppose he is in that he vomits up disinformation for a job, but lmao expert.
 
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