A former video editor and field producer for Alex Jones’s Infowars has said his work for the notorious conspiracy theorist was “nonsense” and “lies”, but he kept at it for four years in his 20s because the far-right media company’s founder was a magnetic presence and it earned him good money.
Josh Owens made those revealing remarks in an NPR interview published on Tuesday promoting his new memoir about once having been an employee of Jones and Infowars – a conversation that also detailed the hand he said he had in fabricating a video of an operative of the Islamic State (IS) terror group sneaking into the US from Mexico immediately after a beheading.
“In Jones’s world, it was all about making things look cinematic,” Owens, who left Infowars in 2017, said to NPR. Likening the aesthetic to that seen in pieces by Vice News, he continued: “We would go out there, we would shoot videos … like we were in the weeds, we were showing what was really going on.
“But it was nonsense. It was lies.”
“Why’s everybody so mad? I’m not Alex Jones, I’m just the guy who created fake evidence that legitimized the terrible shit he said that fucked up so many innocent lives. Blameless! Oh, also:”
May Josh Owens meet the same end as the children who he claimed were “crisis actors”.
I wonder what would happen if people just stopped working for shitty companies. Like all at once. Don’t quit, just stop working, get fired and file for unemployment. Obviously it would crash the unemployment system. But I think the loss of labor would be a pretty significant disruption. Not the same level as a general strike. But more targetted at bringing back some semblance of corporate ethics. The hardest part would be determjning which companies weren’t shitty.
Hey Sandy Hook parents, found you someone else to sue
He was complicit and knew it was wrong. What an ass
He knew it was bullshit, but hey at least the pay was good right? It’s ok to be publicly sorry after the moneys been spent right? But then again this interview was about his memoirs, so really it’s still just about making more money. It’s ok to be sorry for money I guess. /s
There’s no such thing as an honest conservative.
This actually isn’t true! Alex Jones himself openly admitted that it’s all made up bullshit and that at first he was shocked anyone believed any of it. Of course, he said it perfectly knowing that none of his vewiers would ever read a written interview. Or read anything, really.
Was that in the sandy hook case? I’m curious if he said that in self defense or if he really admitted that freely.
lol
There’s no such thing as an
honestconservative.
yeah go to hell, josh
Fuck you, Josh. You helped bring [gestures wildly at everything] about.
Shocking revelation of shock jock schlock
Heh. I did work for a client who was a Jones partner for about seven years because the pay was very good.
Yeah, the lies, conspiracy theories, and general insanity were annoying, but it was interesting to watch them spiral themselves into oblivion.
