Chapter 1: Alex Jones and Infowars
The name, Alex Jones, has become attached to the conspiracy theory culture. He has made a lot of money off of this subject, and there is no reason to dance around the heart of this chapter. It is my firm belief that Alex Jones is being dishonest and that he fabricates his material for profit and for attention.
Jones is the creator of Infowars.com, a website which claims that by joining the war on information you are becoming a patriot and warrior against tyranny because you are educating yourself against the inhumane actions of globalists and the New World Order. Just by watching an infowars video, you've already transformed yourself into a soldier of the mind. Sure makes life more entertaining.
However, when it comes to someone of Jones' popularity level, they need to be placed under the microscope and let's learn what they are really about and how they deliver their presentation to the audience.
Alex Jones uses two major methods for fabricating his material.
1) Mixing facts with distortion.
2) Flooding the market on conspiracy theories
To address point 1)
The author David Neiwert writes of former political critic and presidential candidate Lyndon Larouche in the following way.
Like most Larouche texts, it is a mélange of fact and distortion, written in a highly suppositional style that makes numerous leaps of logic and asserts connections where there is no real evidence to support it, at other times omitting exculpatory or contrary information that reveals a more complete picture. Sifting through it requires a great deal of work, but there are nuggets of fact woven into their text that are substantiated and which deserve proper consideration.
Source:
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2003/09/bush-nazis-and-america_07.html
This has become one of the major ways that Alex Jones shares his information. He mixes the facts with falsehoods and creates a distorting effect. During many of his presentations he often goes into emotional rants and ramblings that are not even relevant to the conspiracy theory he is trying to defend. Then, he will mention about how was promoting a subject ten years ago, and it is now mainstream news. Once again, that does not prove or disprove anything, when the entire reason he created his own website and radio show was because he claimed the mainstream media was not reporting the information correctly.
Infowars has become loaded with actual factual material that has been mixed falsehoods so well that the viewer cannot determine which is which. Vaccines might be required by the government, but so far no men in black uniforms have come to someone's door and applied vaccines by force. Or the governments of nations such as the United Kingdom and India may have made statements on population control, but that does not prove that there is a massive eugenics movement that has manipulated massive amounts of trendy individuals to die for the Earth, so the population will be
Point 2)
Aside from the Lyndon Larouche model, another technique used by Alex Jones and Infowars comes to us from Bill Cooper, the author of the 1991 Book, Behold a Pale Horse. Emory University professor, Felix Harcourt, says of Cooper's book that you've probably heard of this one because he talked about every conspiracy theory known to man.
Source: https://www.c-span.org/video/?425446-1/20th-century-ufo-conspiracies
While many of Cooper's writings dealt with UFOs and aliens (Note 1), he also addressed other issues such as the Kennedy Assasination and the Sports Industrial Complex.
Alex Jones uses this model in the sense that he has flooded the market of conspiracy culture. If you want to research any conspiracy theory, you will find a video from infowars sooner or later. All of the conspiracy theories are said to be connected into a giant continuum. In all reality, perhaps this makes it easier for Alex Jones to gain popularity.
Instead, of talking about one conspiracy theory and devoted his life to examining every piece of information and detail about a single proposition, Jones makes general statements about almost every major conspiracy theory known to the English-speaking world. This allows his videos and articles to become more popular on internet search engines. Infowars plays a quantity over quality game. NBC host made the statement that Alex Jones talks into whatever microphone he can get in front of, but what she should have done was mention how Infowars is trying to monopolize the conspiracy theory market. Turning themselves into a conspiracy theory central command, regardless of whether their information and statements are accurate or not.
This does not mean that there is no value to the work of Alex Jones. As Neiwert stated in his quote on LaRouche, the factual material deserves strong consideration. On a personal note, I used to believe that Jones created Infowars with good intentions. For example, he might go off on tangents and emotionally-charged rants, but he often makes comments telling his viewers and listeners to read the government documents for themselves. Read the white papers. Read the history of the CIA. I once made the proclamation that Infowars was 95% off base, but the 5% of truth was simply encouraging Americans to learn more about what their government is doing and to raise awareness on the misdeeds and inhumane nature that does on with the CIA, Henry Kissinger, the United Nations, and the very nature of government itself.
Jones is the creator of Infowars.com, a website which claims that by joining the war on information you are becoming a patriot and warrior against tyranny because you are educating yourself against the inhumane actions of globalists and the New World Order. Just by watching an infowars video, you've already transformed yourself into a soldier of the mind. Sure makes life more entertaining.
However, when it comes to someone of Jones' popularity level, they need to be placed under the microscope and let's learn what they are really about and how they deliver their presentation to the audience.
Alex Jones uses two major methods for fabricating his material.
1) Mixing facts with distortion.
2) Flooding the market on conspiracy theories
To address point 1)
The author David Neiwert writes of former political critic and presidential candidate Lyndon Larouche in the following way.
Like most Larouche texts, it is a mélange of fact and distortion, written in a highly suppositional style that makes numerous leaps of logic and asserts connections where there is no real evidence to support it, at other times omitting exculpatory or contrary information that reveals a more complete picture. Sifting through it requires a great deal of work, but there are nuggets of fact woven into their text that are substantiated and which deserve proper consideration.
Source:
http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2003/09/bush-nazis-and-america_07.html
This has become one of the major ways that Alex Jones shares his information. He mixes the facts with falsehoods and creates a distorting effect. During many of his presentations he often goes into emotional rants and ramblings that are not even relevant to the conspiracy theory he is trying to defend. Then, he will mention about how was promoting a subject ten years ago, and it is now mainstream news. Once again, that does not prove or disprove anything, when the entire reason he created his own website and radio show was because he claimed the mainstream media was not reporting the information correctly.
Infowars has become loaded with actual factual material that has been mixed falsehoods so well that the viewer cannot determine which is which. Vaccines might be required by the government, but so far no men in black uniforms have come to someone's door and applied vaccines by force. Or the governments of nations such as the United Kingdom and India may have made statements on population control, but that does not prove that there is a massive eugenics movement that has manipulated massive amounts of trendy individuals to die for the Earth, so the population will be
Point 2)
Aside from the Lyndon Larouche model, another technique used by Alex Jones and Infowars comes to us from Bill Cooper, the author of the 1991 Book, Behold a Pale Horse. Emory University professor, Felix Harcourt, says of Cooper's book that you've probably heard of this one because he talked about every conspiracy theory known to man.
Source: https://www.c-span.org/video/?425446-1/20th-century-ufo-conspiracies
While many of Cooper's writings dealt with UFOs and aliens (Note 1), he also addressed other issues such as the Kennedy Assasination and the Sports Industrial Complex.
Alex Jones uses this model in the sense that he has flooded the market of conspiracy culture. If you want to research any conspiracy theory, you will find a video from infowars sooner or later. All of the conspiracy theories are said to be connected into a giant continuum. In all reality, perhaps this makes it easier for Alex Jones to gain popularity.
Instead, of talking about one conspiracy theory and devoted his life to examining every piece of information and detail about a single proposition, Jones makes general statements about almost every major conspiracy theory known to the English-speaking world. This allows his videos and articles to become more popular on internet search engines. Infowars plays a quantity over quality game. NBC host made the statement that Alex Jones talks into whatever microphone he can get in front of, but what she should have done was mention how Infowars is trying to monopolize the conspiracy theory market. Turning themselves into a conspiracy theory central command, regardless of whether their information and statements are accurate or not.
This does not mean that there is no value to the work of Alex Jones. As Neiwert stated in his quote on LaRouche, the factual material deserves strong consideration. On a personal note, I used to believe that Jones created Infowars with good intentions. For example, he might go off on tangents and emotionally-charged rants, but he often makes comments telling his viewers and listeners to read the government documents for themselves. Read the white papers. Read the history of the CIA. I once made the proclamation that Infowars was 95% off base, but the 5% of truth was simply encouraging Americans to learn more about what their government is doing and to raise awareness on the misdeeds and inhumane nature that does on with the CIA, Henry Kissinger, the United Nations, and the very nature of government itself.