Mainstream Pundits Give Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories Power @alternet

Mainstream Pundits Give Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories Power @alternet: Parkland conspiracy theories started on the internet, but they get life from pundits who wink at them on TV.
As happened after the Sandy Hook school shooting, conspiracy theories started to fly around online, suggesting that the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida was somehow faked. Paranoid gun nuts, unwilling to admit their preferred gun control policies lead to mass murder, flocked to online forums to swap claims that the teenaged survivors are 'crisis actors' and the whole incident is a 'false flag' being perpetrated by a shadowy cabal of 'globalists.'