That's it! I can't listen to it anymore.
For about the third time this week, Alex Jones has been 'interviewing' a fairly knowledgeable guest only to persistently interrupt them mid-sentence to bark out something he has yelled out many times before - probably because he cannot bear the thought that an expert guest might think that he doesn't know everything already.
I say 'interviewing' because what Jones does is anything but. He endeavours to engage his guests in the kind of banter which takes place whilst propping up a bar when in fact they have far more interesting information than they ever get the opportunity to share. Good interviewing technique is actually the polar opposite of what Alex Jones does - allowing the interviewee more than just a moment to draw breath and in fact sometimes artificially creating a pregnant pause in order to allow the other person to extrapolate, explain or even digress.
I don't delude myself into believing that Alex Jones reads this or that he would take any notice if he did but he is not going to be able to reach beyond those who are already in his grasp if he arrogantly believes that people outside his catchment are going to adapt to his style because it would require the antithesis of what he preaches, i.e. the dumbing down of the potential audience.
He rails against the sports watching public for caring more about their team's results than the erosion of liberty but yells at those who listen as if they are ogling at the sports channel. He actually would be more suited as a wrestling commentator.
Maybe it's the American WWF mentality which drives or demands this kind of presentation - let's face it, US documentaries, whether it's National Geographic or Jesse Ventura, never allow the viewer to pause for thought and they all repeat the tantalising lie, 'coming next...' a dozen times or more so that when 'it' comes 'it' is either no surprise or worse a great disappointment.
At the final debriefing when the planet is in rubble and those with a ponderous nature wonder where it all went wrong, the inability of those with the ultimate power - the billions of inhabitants who gave political power to the privileged elite - to raise their consciousness above the level of the constant noise of game shows, 'reality TV' and children's television will be a primary cause and Alex Jones' inimitable style will have contributed to either maintaining a dumbed down audience or repelling those who must struggle to keep their chins out of the swamp of idiocracy.
