Ben Swann
Ben Swann was born in El Paso, Texas, United States on July 17th, 1978 and is the Journalist. At the age of 46, Ben Swann biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Benjamin Swann (born July 17, 1978) is an American television news anchor, investigative journalist, and political commentator.
He was a TV sports director, producer, and senior editor on FOX's network affiliates and RT America of Russia's state-owned television network RT, and later a news journalist and producer. In 2002, he received the National Edward R. Murrow Award. Swann produced Reality Check, a news segment in Cincinnati and CBS46 in Atlanta, in which he covered "issues that other media isn't interested in" and uncritically presented alt-right conspiracy theories.
He was lauded for a 2012 in-person interview with President Barack Obama on the so-called "kill list" that is used to order drone strikes against American civilians, such as Anwar al-Awlaki.
Swann discussed conspiracy theories surrounding the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, presented 9/11 conspiracy theories, and the false assertions of a conspiracy by the CDC of findings related to MMR vaccines and autism.
He has also questioned the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Civil War, whether the US played a role in the creation of ISIL, and other controversial topics.
Swann was coerced by WGCL to take down his Truth in Media website and all of his social media after his employer, CBS affiliate 46 in Atlanta, broadcasted a Reality Check, which presented the incorrect Pizzagate conspiracy theory as likely to be true.
He was fired about a year later when WGCL discovered that Swann was going to relaunch Truth in Media.
Education
Swann was homeschooled in El Paso, Texas, with nine brothers and sisters, and he graduated with a bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts from Brigham Young University in 1993, as well as a master's degree in History from California State University, Dominguez Hills, 1994, at the age of 16.
Personal life
In 1999, Swann married his wife. He was born in Portland, Oregon, where he served as an assistant pastor at a Presbyterian church. He returned to El Paso after six or eight months. Swann and his wife have five children who have been home-schooled by his mother. He was ordained in 2000 in the Southern Baptist Convention. He was hired as the youth minister for the Trinity First United Methodist Church in El Paso in 2001. He has been a youth pastor for 17 years as of 2014.
Career
Swann became a youth pastor at his local Baptist Church in Canutillo, Texas, at the age of 15. He began preaching at revivals in Texas at the age of 19. Since being unable to find a job as a pastor in El Paso, he acted on a recommendation from one of his brothers to work in television news. Four of his brothers were working in television at the time. Three of the three men were news cameramen. He worked with KDBC-TV for a short period of time. In 1998, he went to KFOX-TV to work as a news cameraman.
Swann returned to Fox station KFOX in El Paso as an assistant pastor after working in Portland, Oregon, as a sports producer. He then filmed, edited, and published news and sports articles before becoming a morning co-anchor and station managing editor. In 2008, he became a NBC affiliate KTSM-TV's evening news anchor. He received regional Emmy Awards in 2005 and 2009, as well as a national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2002 for reporting Alexandra Flores. Swann was an investigative reporter for the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN News) covering the trade in illegal drugs along the southern border during this period.
He left El Paso in December 2010 to work with Fox affiliate WXIX-TV in Cincinnati, Ohio, co-anchoring with Tricia Macke. Shortly after joining the station, he created Reality Check, which he described as investigating "issues that other media isn't concerned about." Swann's libertarian convictions as well as his promotion of Ron Paul's positions were reflected in the series. Ron Paul's presidential campaign was one of Swann's Reality Check's, with his aim of delivering more coverage for Paul than the conservative or liberal national press, as well as an episode about The New Republic columnist James Kirchick's debating the story.
One segment of Reality Check in particular went viral in September 2012 and attracted a lot of media attention. On a rare opportunity for a local news reporter, Swann was able to secure a one-on-one interview with President Barack Obama while on a campaign stop in Ohio. Swann asked the President direct about the so-called presidential "kill list" which had been used to order drone strikes against terrorism targets as well as the legality of the list, which included US citizens like Anwar al-Awlaki and teenage son Abdulrahman al-Awlaki. In response to Swann's questions, Obama replied by saying that news about the list had never been confirmed by him, and that drone strikes in Yemen would bring US troops home sooner. Many journalists and civil rights watchdogs lauded Swann's fact-checking work on the subject, including Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic, Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian, Conor Friedersdorf of The Guardian, Byron Tau of Politico, The Huffington Post, and the Columbia Journalism Review.
Swann discussed numerous aspects of local officials at the Cincinnati IRS office that was involved in the IRS targeting scandal, which culminated in Swann's appearance on Fox News.
Swann revealed in April 2013 that he would leave WXIX-TV Fox 19 at the end of May.
Swann launched "Full Disclosure" on Facebook, where he, according to Adweek, asked "questions about controversial topics that are ignored by national media when working at WXIX-TV. Swann appeared on a third-party presidential debate hosted by Larry King in Chicago, Illinois, and nationally on C-SPAN, Al Jazeera America, and online through the Free & Equal Elections Foundation.
Swann created "Reality in Media" after leaving WXIX-TV to continue production of his show Reality Check, which is a social media platform. Truth in Media was a result of a partnership between Republican Liberty Caucuses and Joshua Cook. According to The Daily Beast, his Reality Check echoes RT and InfoWars' talking points. Until he took his YouTube channel offline, Swann's Reality Check segments were uploaded on his YouTube channel and gained 10,376,570 views and over 73,500 followers. Swann's goal in 2017 was to raise funds with his 419,000 Facebook followers for an episode titled, "The United States and partners intentionally created ISIS."
Swann appeared on RT America in Washington, D.C., for three months in 2014, a far-right network that has aired Holocaust denial and other antisemitic conspiracy theories, from May 2013 to June 2015.
He was recruited by CBS-46 affiliate WGCL-TV in Atlanta, Georgia, where he revived his fact-checking segment under the name Reality Check With Ben Swann and was part of the station's new investigative unit in June 2015.
Swann was suspended in January 2017 for reporting without independently investigating a story attempting to revive the Pizzagate conspiracy theory. Since taking down his Truth in Media and Reality Check websites, he was reinstated. He was fired on January 29, 2018, after the station learned that he had been trying to revive Truth in Media without their knowledge and permission. Swann's Reality Check segment had "often devolved into alt-right conspiracy theories," according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
After being booted by WGCL-TV, Swann revived Truth in Media in 2018. He started writing articles for the Liberty Nation website in 2018. Swann introduced the Isegoria social media website, derived from the ancient Greek word "Equality of all in freedom of expression." In 2018, he returned to RT America. Swann was paid $6.8 million by the Russian government in order to produce propaganda TV programs for the South America, Indian, and Chinese markets in August 2022.
Swann's production company, Axios and Politico, was supposed to produce four shows for TV Novosti (which controls Russia Today) -- Russian company Kart LLC and Armenian Stark Industries LLC. The Russian-backed programs will have "the United States and NATO are advancing war," "the rise of global war by the US and its allies," "the rise of global war"" and "transgender issues in the United States." "Swann also received more than $600,000 to compensate employees of [RT America] T&R Productions, who were laid off when [RT America] closed," Axios reported.