Ken Bensinger

Reporter @nytimes; co-host of "The Michigan Plot" podcast - - [email protected] - DMs open; On Signal at kenbensinger.98

[Ken Bensinger @kenbensinger]

The campaign is open to any account with at least 1,000 followers and accounts are allowed to post up to 50 times a day to promote clips taken from 9 sample videos of the concert @nprmusic

Only posts that get at least 2,000 views pay out

And that is how the sausage is made

[Ken Bensinger @kenbensinger]

CLIPPING ECONOMY: Have you noticed a lot of clips of Cardi B on NPR Tiny Desk on TikTok, IG or YouTube?

It's because they were paid for: within hours of her going on the show today, a paid clipping campaign appeared offering $1 per 1,000 views to promote her appearance.

[Ken Bensinger @kenbensinger]

Suggested text for posts, per the creator brief:

- "Give her the Grammy already"
- "Cardi B gave us the oldies and the goodies todayyyyy"
- "Give cardi her flowers now"
- "Shut my show is on"

Also: "Feel free to rephrase these so they're native to your content."

[Ken Bensinger @kenbensinger]

“You Can See Everything" pulled in $15M on 855 screens in its opening weekend (~$17,500/screen)

"Melania" made $7M on 1,778 screens (~$3,900/screen)

For the less math inclined, that's almost 4.5xmore dollars per screen

[Ken Bensinger @kenbensinger]

@tedcruz Huh? He did multiple times, Senator.

[Ken Bensinger @kenbensinger]

Basically Herzog was doing this maddening dance with objectivity and subjectivity years before Fielder and perhaps deserves some credit here.

Good companion pieces to YCSE perhaps

[Ken Bensinger @kenbensinger]

Watching "You Can See Everything" made me think of Herzog's "Little Dieter Needs to Fly" & the way he sadistically forces Dieter to relive his trauma while he films him. And that made me think of "Rescue Dawn," which is Herzog shooting a recreation of his own prior work.

[Astead @AsteadWH]

No bigger red flag as a journalist than when powerful people or their allies start issuing prebuttals to a story you haven’t even put out. Only means you’re getting closer to valuable information

[Ken Bensinger @kenbensinger]

@scrowder Should note that the LWC IP Assets trademark is clearly the one for Crowder's show. The application, submitted in 2019, includes exhibits such as this screenshot

[Ken Bensinger @kenbensinger]

There is a trademark, registered to LWC IP Assets LLC in Dallas, for "on-going webisodes featuring comedy and politics via a global computer network."

But there's also a trademark for Change My Mind held by company in Reseda, CA, called Change My Mind, for "playing cards, chips, gaming tables and gaming cloths"

Since the USPTO allows two different Change My Minds to exist, it's a question as to whether a politician is infringing on a trademark for comedy webisodes

[Ken Bensinger @kenbensinger]

@RSBNYIhockey @tariqpanja Assuming you're not talking about retail space, fair enough. I'm definitely not an expert. But either way, it's a lot to pay for space that's not being used.

[Ken Bensinger @kenbensinger]

FIFA is paying ~ $47,600 a month to lease a 5,000 sq ft office in the Trump Tower it rarely uses.

That’s about $115/sq ft/year; prime Midtown office space typically tops out at $95/sq ft/year

@tariqpanja

https://t.co/zT9cW9uCUR

[Ken Bensinger @kenbensinger]

@paulcalixte1 because that story is only about half true!

[Ken Bensinger @kenbensinger]

@JacobB60251 @tariqpanja Rumors!

[Ken Bensinger @kenbensinger]

@jonathanldawe This was a popular story, one I don’t think is really true. It was for visitors including Jack Warner but Blazer left the adjoining door open and apparently his cats used it as their den. But he didn’t explicitly rent it for the cats

[Ken Bensinger @kenbensinger]

I can't immediately find data on how much CONCACAF paid in rent for the same 17th floor space. Feel free to chime in if you know!

[Ken Bensinger @kenbensinger]

There is some suggestion that the current FIFA office space occupies the exact same space that CONCACAF rented: the entire 17th floor of the Trump Tower. To give a sense of how hot in demand that space is, CONCACAF abandoned it in 2012 and FIFA rented it in May 2025

[Bayliss Wagner @baylisswagner]

SCOOP: @nytimes reviewed time-stamped security camera images showing @jamestalarico was, in fact, at his home in Austin on Oct. 1-8.

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