Discussion Thoughts about Alex Jones?

[miseryh8scompany]

It's more the viewers. People get the news they want and leave as soon as it's something they don't. It's so tribal the truth doesn't matter only your side winning. This is why americas banned from travelling because they can't put their egos aside for one minute to deal with a pandemic. Never really watched Alex Jones, I know from what little I have seen he isn't worth watching. I remember he invaded The young turks set and got spat on by Jimmy Dore which tells you all you need to know about him too

Ya, well they used to have the fairness doctrine but Reagan overturned that. Because encouraging media to present both sides of a story, abstain from personal attacks, and be honest was stifling republican "viewpoints". Now more people tune into conspiracy peddling pundits than actual journalists because it's what they want to hear.

 

[GoodPersonEffed]

they used to have the fairness doctrine but Reagan overturned that. Because encouraging media to present both sides of a story, abstain from personal attacks, and be honest was stifling republican "viewpoints".

I had no idea about this, thank you!

I was born in the early 70s, and I have noticed there is a distinct difference in how the news is presented in comparison to when I was younger. The balance disappeared, and it became more about editorializing and presentation based on bias, rather than educating and informing. Not that there wasn't bias before, but I've had extensive education in print journalism, and a foundational ethic was to remove as much bias as possible and to present facts without intent to sway, which news organizations and presenters used to regularly put forward as their value and intention. Print journalists were vigorously taught to guard against slanting and editorializing, and editors were to screen for them as a backup.

I'm not sure how this relates, only sense that it does, but I also noticed that the news since I was a child presents less and less of what's going on in the world and has become totally US-centric. If there's news about another country, it's usually to make citizens more against them, whether to hate them, fear them, and/or to encourage staying in the States rather than traveling and experiencing the rest of the world and learning other perspectives.

 

[Life sucks]

This person said he will eat his neighbors! Enough to show how crazy he is.

 

[ForensicallyAware]

People only believe conspiracy theorists cos the politicians are such awful self serving liars

 

[Sinai Silence]

I like reading the declassified documents he covers and he's the best meme. Other than that I don't agree with a lot of his views, when he's not screaming at the top of his lungs he can put forward some decent arguments.

 

[Good4Nothing]

I think he's an immoral, psychopathic scumbag.