By Monica Showalter(American Thinker)

The New York Times has finally concluded its great hunt for a journalist to cover conservative media for its new beat — and came up with this guy, according to The Blaze:

The New York Times announced on August 18 that Ken Bensinger is joining its politics desk and will report on right-wing media for the section’s so-called “democracy team.” Bensinger previously worked for BuzzFeed, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

David Halbfinger, the Times’ politics editor, suggested in the announcement that Bensinger is well prepared to report on right-wing media. His recent work on the Oath Keepers (an anti-statist militia group, some of whose members were present at the January 6, 2021, Capitol protests) and on the Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping case in Michigan were cited as evidence of the reporter’s understanding of “the rising threat of armed militant groups,” which Halbfinger intimated is relevant to the reporter’s new beat.

In the announcement, Halbfinger omitted any mention of Bensinger’s most impactful work.

Bensinger was the individual responsible for bringing the Steele dossier to BuzzFeed, which the organization released on January 10, 2017.

So his idea of “right wing” is the Oath Keepers? That’s who the right wing is, to him? I’ll wager he’s got every “neo-Nazi” in America, all six of them, in his Rolodex, raring for new reports.

You can imagine what the stories he’s going to reporting are going be like about the “right wing.” We can tell what they’ll be … even before he writes them.

The Times itself, though, lists Bensinger as a very distinguished journalist, with many impressive scoops:

Ken comes to us from BuzzFeed News, where he was a charter member of its investigations team, reporting on campaign finance, the perils of Amazon’s delivery network and political disinformation. Early in the pandemic, his reporting pushed the Food and Drug Administration to reverse itself and allow KN95 masks into the country. And he uncovered the story of a Silicon Valley engineer paid $69 million for ventilators he never delivered.

Fine and dandy. He’s an expose guy, a guy who knows how to do a good expose. Everything he writes is an expose, so he’ll soon get busy exposing “right wing” media for the non-deplorables. Read Entire Article at American Thinker.com(LINK)