Mr. Lee Brando shares that on October 27th, Ben Smith (father of student Hugo Smith) and media columnist for The New York Times, visited his AP Government 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)
Ben Smith is a media columnist. He joined The New York Times in 2020 after eight years as founding editor in chief of BuzzFeed News. Before that, he covered politics for Politico, The New York Daily News, The New York Observer and The New York Sun.
If anyone would like to read some of his work, you can also find that here: https://www.nytimes.com/by/ben-smith.
