Thursday, March 29, 2007

80,000 to 1

I'm guessing that the following parlay is highly unlikely but I'll give it a shot anyway. What are the odds that:

(1) Someone who reads this (2) thinks that Fox News is a respectable news outlet, (3) clicks on this link, (4) reads the entire thing, (5) agrees that Gibson is full of shit, (6) is then open to the possibility that the entire network functions that way, and (7) exercises this kind of critical thinking in the future to form the proper conclusion that Fox News is nothing but a Republican propaganda network.

Seems like an impossible parlay but I'll put it out there anyway.

1 comment:

Brice Lord said...

What I see in FNC is a fierce blowback (supposedly a word invented by that idiot in an article you referenced before, except not) from the Conservative base in response to decades of a largely liberal television news presence. It took a long time to organize themselves on television, and when they did, they made it count.

Is it right? Nope. But people believe it, just as they believe what the four ignorant women say, and that I had to listen to in a waiting room, on The View last Thursday.