Recently two well-known political pundits have faced scrutiny. Alex Jones of the conspiracy site Infowars and Bill O'Reilly from Fox News. Both are political pundits, which are different than reporters/journalists. As such, they do not always follow actual journalism ethics.  (More on reporters vs pundits:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/while-pundits-swooned-over-trumps-speech-reporters-plugged-away-at-the-real-story/2017/03/02/582cf4da-ff69-11e6-8f41-ea6ed597e4ca_story.html?utm_term=.5301d6ab68f2 ). While Bill O'Reilly is losing his job at Fox due partially to the sexual harassment scandals and financial reasons, Jones in the middle of a messy divorce had his lawyer state that he just a "performance artist", or more easily understood as an actor with an artistic purpose. Yet his site "infowars" is mistaken as fact by readers. This is not a new concept. Stephen Colbert played a "Character" when working on Comedy Central. T...