<p>Mr. Lee Brando shares that on October 27th, <b>Ben Smith</b> (father of student Hugo Smith) and media columnist for <i>The New York Times</i>, visited his <b>AP Government</b> class to speak to students about whether media is replicating the mistakes of 2016. His talk was a brief lecture on the topic and then a conversation with students to give them the opportunity to really dig into the election politics. (Talking Politics, Media, and the Elections with Ben Smith of The New York Times)</p><p>Ben Smith is a media columnist. He joined <i>The New York Times</i> in 2020 after eight years as founding editor in chief of BuzzFeed News. Before that, he covered politics for <i>Politico</i>, <i>The New York Daily New</i>s, <i>The New York Observer</i> and <i>The New York Sun</i>.</p><p>If anyone would like to read some of his work, you can also find that here: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/ben-smith">https://www.nytimes.com/by/ben-smith</a>.</p><p><br/><br/></p>
