Joshua Benton

Joshua Benton

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Followers
12.1K
Account age
3 yrs

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June 11: GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn introduces a bill to defund NPR and PBS because of their "left-wing propaganda" and "radical leftist gender ideology." October 7: The news industry's main trade group gives Blackburn its "Support Journalism Champion Award." Just shameless.1.1K views June 11: GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn introduces a bill to defund NPR and PBS because of their "left-wing propaganda" and "radical leftist gender ideology." October 7: The news industry's main trade group gives Blackburn its "Support Journalism Champion Award." Just shameless. What a dumb framing of a federal court declaring Trump's obviously illegal tariffs illegal — positioning *Trump* as the source of stability and obeying the law as the agent of chaos that could screw things up! www.axios.com/2025/08/29/t...272 views What a dumb framing of a federal court declaring Trump's obviously illegal tariffs illegal — positioning *Trump* as the source of stability and obeying the law as the agent of chaos that could screw things up! www.axios.com/2025/08/29/t... Some future history textbook: "The American Civil War was primarily a conflict over the Confederate states' strong anti-diversity stance."68 views Some future history textbook: "The American Civil War was primarily a conflict over the Confederate states' strong anti-diversity stance." tired: "news avoiders" wired: “news minimalists"22 views tired: "news avoiders" wired: “news minimalists"

📊 Post engagement

123
Avg engagement / post
1%
Engagement vs followers
Mar 2023
On Bluesky since

🔥 Top post: June 11: GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn introduces a bill to defund N · 1.1K likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.29 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 0 text · 12 image · 0 video.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post June 11: GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn introduces a bill to defund NPR and PBS because of their "left-wing propaganda" and "radical leftist gender ideology." October 7: The news industry's main trade group gives Blackburn its "Support Journalism Champion Award." Just shameless. ★ 1.1K
Some future history textbook: "The American Civil War was primarily a conflict over the Confederate states' strong anti-diversity stance." ★ 68 Updated, thanks! ★ 1 The strangest thing to me about this piece — on detecting cheating-via-AI — is its central conceit that writing about a 1800 slave rebellion "from a Marxist perspective" is some wild, nutty idea that could only originate in ChatGPT www.hu… ★ 3 If any of you wanted to spend $200 to buy me Steve Albini’s screenprint of Jay Ryan’s “Let’s Eat Ice Cream and Dismantle White Supremacy” (2019), I promise I wouldn’t be mad www.stevealbiniscloset.com/stuff/p/jay-... ★ 6 With this document just filed with the SEC, 140 years of control (and 99 years of ownership) of @dallasnews.com by the Dealey-Decherd-Moroney family has come to an end. Family patriarch Robert Decherd "no longer beneficially owns any shar… ★ 5 tired: "news avoiders" wired: “news minimalists" ★ 22 I just want to get this on the record: The large half-circle windows in the "Toledo Truth-Teller" newsroom in Peacock's "The Paper" are 100% a reference to the identical windows in the @toledonews.bsky.social newsroom, on the 3rd floor o… ★ 14 What a dumb framing of a federal court declaring Trump's obviously illegal tariffs illegal — positioning *Trump* as the source of stability and obeying the law as the agent of chaos that could screw things up! www.axios.com/2025/08/29/t... ★ 272 Meanwhile, @dallasnews.com is sticking to the argument that if Decherd doesn't want to sell, a sale is impossible, so Alden will just need to find another corpse to scavenge. investor.dallasnewscorp.com/node/15141/h... ★ 2 Alden Global Capital has raised its bid for @dallasnews.com by another buck — now $18.50/share vs. Hearst's $15. But again, as long as Robert Decherd says no — and I don't see him changing his mind — the DMN should be saved from the Alden… ★ 5 By “jumping” he meant “riding across the roofs of,” by “jet-powered” he meant “could be made to emit sparks,” and by “riding” he meant “falling off of.” (Story here by future Pulitzer winner Madeleine Blais.) ★ 3

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@joshuabenton.com
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On Bluesky since
Mar 2023
An early adopter from the invite-only beta (before the Feb 2024 public launch) — an original, established account.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 123 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.3× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.

🛡️ Audience credibility

66/100 Good
  • Est. 79% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
  • Content engagement (~1.0% of followers) is around typical for Bluesky.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
79%
Fake-follower risk
Medium

Heuristic estimate from view-through, engagement vs size and recent growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

21st-century media and the 19th-c American South. Founded and ran @niemanlab.org at @harvard.edu for 12 yrs; now the senior writer there. Cajun, dad of two, husband of one. Journalist with a history problem. Also: @theatlantic.com, @washingtonpost.com, etc

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Some future history textbook: "The American Civil War was primarily a conflict over the Confederate states' strong anti-diversity stance." Updated, thanks! The strangest thing to me about this piece — on detecting cheating-via-AI — is its central conceit that writing about a 1800 slave rebellion "from a Marxist perspective" is some wild, nutty idea that could only originate in ChatGPT www.huffpost.com/entry/histor... If any of you wanted to spend $200 to buy me Steve Albini’s screenprint of Jay Ryan’s “Let’s Eat Ice Cream and Dismantle White Supremacy” (2019), I promise I wouldn’t be mad www.stevealbiniscloset.com/stuff/p/jay-... June 11: GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn introduces a bill to defund NPR and PBS because of their "left-wing propaganda" and "radical leftist gender ideology." October 7: The news industry's main trade group gives Blackburn its "Support Journalism Champion Award." Just shameless. With this document just filed with the SEC, 140 years of control (and 99 years of ownership) of @dallasnews.com by the Dealey-Decherd-Moroney family has come to an end. Family patriarch Robert Decherd "no longer beneficially owns any shares." investor.dallasnewscorp.com/static-files... tired: "news avoiders" wired: “news minimalists" I just want to get this on the record: The large half-circle windows in the "Toledo Truth-Teller" newsroom in Peacock's "The Paper" are 100% a reference to the identical windows in the @toledonews.bsky.social newsroom, on the 3rd floor of the Toledo Blade Building.

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