Award-winning journalist Ben Collins, a senior reporter in the investigations department at NBC News, has more hardware to display on the shelf today in honor of his less than prolific 2023 output.

Collins wrote just four stories for his employer in 2023, and consequently has been recognized by the Washington Free Beacon for still managing to collect a paycheck.

“We’re no fans of socialism here at the Washington Free Beacon, but the idea of sitting on your ass all day and letting the cash roll in is the kind of European tradition we can get behind. And no one did it better this year than NBC reporter Ben Collins,” declared the Beacon in an article announcing that he had won one of its tongue-in-cheek “Man of the Year” awards.

The Beacon continued with no shortage of sarcasm:

As of this writing, Ben has not filed a story in 78 days. Before then, he published a roughly 400 word piece entitled “Fake Picture of Explosion at Pentagon Spooks Twitter” in May. In total, Collins only wrote four stories where his name was the only bylined author (another of which was called “Cat and Dog Torture Videos Litter Twitter, Adding to Concerns About Moderation”—the Free Beacon could not confirm any sightings of these videos).

We’re told Ben is still employed at NBC, although none of his colleagues we spoke with seemed to have any idea what he does other than cry on Twitter all day. But the joke’s on them: Ben is still getting paid.

At some point this year Ben’s beat changed from “disinformation” to “investigations.” So far he hasn’t broken the next Pentagon Papers, but his liberal sugar daddies at Comcast Corporation don’t seem to mind.

Collins has long been the subject of mockery on the right for his bias and emotional outbursts online.

After noting that Collins had professed to be considering leaving journalism even though he didn’t “have skills or family connections or money or anything,” the Beacon concluded by suggesting he remain right were he is.

“We don’t know about Ben’s family or personal finances, but we certainly can’t disagree about his lack of skills. But for someone with absolutely no ability, Ben has found the perfect gig,” it declared. “Don’t give up Ben, you have a whole lot of nothing to look forward to. Only now, when you do nothing, you’ll do it as a Free Beacon Man of the Year.”

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