Dear FOX News viewer,
Honestly, I’m just trying to help.
Lost amid the ongoing Charlie Hebdo coverage is the release
of yet another survey, this one conducted by World Public Opinion, a project
managed by The Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of
Maryland, that finds that regular FOX News viewers are more misinformed than
consumers of other news sources. This is only the latest of a number of surveys
in recent years that have found the “fair and balanced” news organization is
anything but.
To put it plainly, you are being fed a daily dose of bull
manure mistaking it for hot dogs and cheap beer. FOX News is conservative
propaganda, not actual news. If you choose not to believe the surveys that
confirm this, it’s your business, but please don’t try and convince the rest of
us you know what you’re talking about, because you don’t.
FOX News isn’t telling you what you need to know to be an
informed citizen, it is telling you what you want to hear. It gleefully stokes
your anger, your fears and your bigotry so that you feel better about the
noxious views you were raised with (and stay tuned in). I’m sorry that the real
world doesn’t fit neatly into your personal version of reality. I know that it
makes you very angry. I’ve read your fact-free diatribes and schoolyard insults
in the comments section of many online articles.
Change is hard. I understand this, but it doesn’t help
anyone, especially you, to continue living in a world that rejects science and
is untethered from reality. There’s room for everyone under the umbrella of
reason if you just make the effort by turning off FOX News, Limbaugh and Beck. Your
brain, your heart and your fellow citizens will thank you.
Sincerely,
John
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