Josh Owens

He more so undermined us.

made us question our own findings, made us question our own abilities, our own competence.

And I'd get sweaty a little bit even thinking back to it.

We didn't know what to do.

What are we supposed to do?

We can't conjure radiation out of thin air.

But there was a part of us that wished we could.

Well, it depended.

On my first day, I sat down with an editor named

I believe he was a producer for the Nightly News at the time, which was this newfangled thing Jones was trying out.

It didn't last too long.

But we were to, if it was a mainstream outlet that reinforced Jones's beliefs, we were supposed to include that.

But if it was anything else, if it was a smaller outlet, maybe something that people weren't necessarily aware of, we were not supposed to include that, which was surprising to me when I was told that.

As an editor, it was almost a form of training, like here's what he wants, this is what we should do.

I hadn't ever noticed that before in the videos that I had watched online.

I didn't realize that

sources were often omitted.

But truthfully, the content of any article really made no difference.

I don't even think Jones read any of the articles that he would use on his show as evidence to back up his claims.

It was only the headline.