by Jotapay » Fri 01 May 2009, 11:24:47
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'T')he fact of the matter is that Alex Jones is not a true journalistic news source. That his sites would even publish the crap about the camera in the cable box without it passing through some kind of bullsh*t detector shows that, let alone his outspoken global warming and peak oil denial.
I guess there is some required debate about what a true journalist is, but his background is actually History. His methods are crude, sure.
His denial of Peak Oil and Global Warming are quite damning, in my opinion. He has several other major flaws in my opinion, but my purpose isn't to catalog them all here. I'm just pointing out that there is no reason to dismiss him flatly, the amount of good material he puts out does not warrant that. He is on the fringe in untested territory and will therefore have a number of misses.
The reputable news sources to which you refer have to retract parts of stories every day, however, and we don't completely dismiss their content.