Hilarious "question" on Howie Kurtz's on-line forum today

[BurtWorm]

http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/zforum/04/r_politics_kurtz050304.htm

Atlanta, Ga.: Dear Howard

How would you compare the professional committment of your colleagues to professional excellence in accuracy and objectivity with yourself and the most immediate past generation of same prior to the explosion of cable?

I ask this because I find you to be one of the most professional journalists working today. Yet, I find most in the mainstream press appear to be more concerned with their own particular political agenda and simply report facts consistent with same. If it were not for Fox News Channel and talk radio, I would consider myself ignorant.

Dittohead Mike

[papau]

1. facts "inconsistent" with reality is preferred by GOP believers

and Fox has no trouble making them up!

:-)

[tom_paine]

2. "Without my Nazi Newspapers and Julius Streicher on the Radio...

...I would consider myself ignorant."
--Anonymous Brownshirt, 1937

Plus a change, plus a la meme chose

(for the Nazis, Freepers, and Brownshirts: The more things change, the more they stay the same...LIKE YOU )

[BurtWorm]

3. My question for Howard, which will go unanswered, I'm sure.

Regarding a previous poster who stated that, if not for Fox News, he'd consider himself ignorant. This called to mind a study I read about a few months ago that seemed to find a correlation between ignorance about events in Iraq and preference for Fox News as a source of information. For example, Fox news watchers were far more likely to think (erroneously) that Iraq was responsible for 9-11 than viewers of other cable news channels. So my question is, do you believe ignorance precedes or follows from watching Fox News?

[whistle]

5. Both actually!

[Southpaw Bookworm]

4. And loved his response too. . .

Apparently, Howie didn't get the joke. :eyes: