Ben Swann leaving Fox 19 News end of May

[tsai3904]

This is a very big announcement for me. I want to make sure that everyone out there knows how much I appreciate the incredible support you have shown me over the past 2 1/2 years. I am very excited about the next step and I want you to come along. As you will see in the article below, I am announcing today that I am leaving Fox 19 at the end of May. Over the next few weeks I will be giving insight into the next steps and platforms for my brand of journalism. But at the end of the day, the best thing about having come to WXIX is having encountered YOU!

http://cincinnati.com/blogs/tv/2013/04/03/ben-swann-leaving-fox-19-news/

https://www.facebook.com/BenSwannRealityCheck/posts/238440636300857

 

[jkr]

WTF?!?

NOOOOOOOO!

 

[V3n]

I'm sure it will be for something bigger and better. He's got a National following; maybe he can get a National venue to showcase his journalism. I'm sure he's only going UP after the work he's done on a local broadcast - I look forward to seeing what that is. I don't think he's stopping or slowing down at all!

 

[Todd]

Wonder why?

Here's why:

When you critique the media and you say, look, here is what Anthony Lewis or somebody else is writing, they get very angry. They say, quite correctly, "nobody ever tells me what to write. I write anything I like. All this business about pressures and constraints is nonsense because I’m never under any pressure." Which is completely true, but the point is that they wouldn’t be there unless they had already demonstrated that nobody has to tell them what to write because they are going say the right thing. If they had started off at the Metro desk, or something, and had pursued the wrong kind of stories, they never would have made it to the positions where they can now say anything they like. The same is mostly true of university faculty in the more ideological disciplines. They have been through the socialization system.

Because he was encroaching on his bosses power structures and not been socialized into being a good little media fleeb.

 

[Mani]

Well there goes the only rational voice on mainstream media...

 

[jmdrake]

WTF?!?

NOOOOOOOO!

 

[Aldanga]

I have to wonder if he's going to be involved in Ron's new media venture.

 

[supermario21]

Give him a show with Judge Nap.

 

[sailingaway]

I was just going to post this. I'm sorry, in a sense unless it is another 'standard' station because he was almost a mole on the inside...

But he clearly has something in mind, and I doubt he was being pushed out given how his support was GROWING. So I will stay tuned.

 

[jbauer]

He's going after bigger and better pastures. Sucks that he's leaving a small market media outlet but you don't do that at his age and his rise to just go home and flip burgers. He's going to be an even bigger voice for our cause. Congrats!!

 

[ninepointfive]

so will that contest amount to anything?

 

[sailingaway]

I have to wonder if he's going to be involved in Ron's new media venture.

I'd love to see him, but also like someone in conventional media bringing our stuff to people who wouldn't tune in to any other kind.

 

[sailingaway]

so will that contest amount to anything?

can't have hurt his negotiations....nor his stature... we'll know when we see what he is doing.

 

[ronpaulfollower999]

I expected this to happen eventually, and I think this is a good thing because I'm assuming he's going to take his talents nationwide.

 

[ClydeCoulter]

Thanks Ben, looking forward to your new endeavors.

 

[angelatc]

I expected this to happen eventually, and I think this is a good thing because I'm assuming he's going to take his talents nationwide.

Me too, especially when he split his YouTube account away from the affiliate. New media is a brave new world. Swann might be the guy who restores the concept of honesty in journalism.

 

[georgiaboy]

I have a good feeling about this.

 

[angelatc]

It really doesn't sound like he's being pushed out to me. http://cincinnati.com/blogs/tv/2013/04/03/ben-swann-leaving-fox-19-news/

 

[FSP-Rebel]

I'm reserving judgment for now but am cautiously optimistic.

 

[sailingaway]

It really doesn't sound like he's being pushed out to me. http://cincinnati.com/blogs/tv/2013/04/03/ben-swann-leaving-fox-19-news/

I'm pretty sure he's doing it on his own, I hope it pans out as he wants it to.