#27 How Alex Jones Turned Journalism Into a Joke

The Alex Jones trial revealed a lot about the dreadful state of journalism that we have today. Jones was recently sued for 45.2 million dollars by the parents of victims of the Sandy Hook mass shooting that occurred in 2012. Jones claimed repeatedly on his show that the deadly school shooting that took the lives of 28 children and teachers was all an elaborate hoax and that it never happened. During the trial, when Jones and his producers were under oath, they admitted that they did zero fact-checking, zero research, and did not vet any of the information that was put in front of them. Rick Sanchez goes off on the state of journalism in this country and insists that the majority of the people reporting the news today are not real journalists. Sanchez points to another bogus story that appeared on Fox News recently where a fake photo of Bruce Reinhart, the judge who approved the search warrant of former President Trump's home in Mar-a-Lago, was presented and reported as being authentic. The fake photo depicted Judge Reinhold in a very compromising position, and when the photo was proven to be fabricated, the Fox "Journalist" who reported it took to Twitter and stated that he was only joking. Sanchez insists that audiences need to stop listening to these non-journalists and make sure that what they are hearing is true. 
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