Fact Checking “Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”, Chapter Two

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“Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”
Chapter Two
By “Dr. Eowyn” aka Maria Hsia Chang

“Infowars reporter Dan Bidondi said (5:45 mark), “The school’s been closed down for God knows how long. [Neighbors] can’t understand why there were kids in that building because it was condemned.” pg. 30

Dan Bidondi—a never-was professional wrestler turned “reporter” for Alex Jones—doesn’t bother to name a single one of these supposed “neighbors.” Not one. Meanwhile, interviews with actual local residents are widely available, and they show the opposite: no confusion whatsoever about Sandy Hook Elementary being open and occupied by students. If the school had truly been closed or condemned, as Fetzer and his contributors insist, it strains credulity to believe that not a single resident would have publicly questioned why children were suddenly inside the building.

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Fact Checking “Nobody Died At Sandy Hook”, Chapter One

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Disgraced former professor James Tracy—fired from Florida Atlantic University for using university resources to spread disinformation and then lying about it—spends much of this chapter obsessing over the routine errors and inconsistencies that inevitably appear in breaking news coverage. This is an old, well-documented phenomenon, one only exacerbated by the 24-hour news cycle. These kinds of reporting mistakes are so commonplace that entire books have been written about them, including Howard Rosenberg’s No Time to Think and Craig Silverman’s Regret the Error: How Media Mistakes Pollute the Press and Imperil Free Speech. If this reality still surprises Tracy, he is very much in the minority.

Rather than belabor the obvious—that misinformation flourishes in the chaos of early reporting—I will focus my fact-checking on claims that do not rely exclusively on those initial, error-prone reports. Exceptions will be made when necessary, or when a claim is so egregious that it demands attention regardless.

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