About Ben Cohen
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations” - George Orwell
What people say about us
“The Banter is very good. Progressive but iconoclastic. It doesn’t toe party lines which is why I and so many others like it. ” - Nick Cohen, Guardian columnist
“Counterpoint to (and relief from) Matt Taibbi and his merry band of subscribers…. also enjoy the fluid writing and quite often the original and nuanced point of view” - Lucrezia
As America splinters into ever more extreme ideological echo chambers, sane, high quality journalism is becoming an increasingly rare commodity.
That’s exactly what we do here at The Banter.