FoxNews slammed

A senior officer in the British Foreign Office, Baroness Warsi, whose parents are from Pakistan, was discussing differences in how international affairs are discussed in England and in the U. S.    This occurred at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington in a program about persecution of Christians around the world.

Warsi said as a playful aside that she hoped she wouldn't be questioned about why she, as a Muslim, was speaking about persecution of Christians.

This was a reference to the now infamous interview on FoxNews where Muslim author Reza Aslan was grilled by a FoxNews religion reporter as to why he, as a Muslim, was writing about Christianity.   It was the continued stupidity of the questions, compelling Aslan to repeat again and again his academic qualifications as a researcher and professor of history of religions, that was so egregiously ignorant and bigoted.

Warsi said, about that Aslan interview: 

"I thought 'how ignorant can you be'. . . . The fact that this is even a question shows there is a level of illiteracy. . . .  Fox News needs training on religious literacy."

Of course, I relish every critical comment about FoxNews, but they deserve them all.   And I remind us all of the study done last year on the level of knowledge about news events and where people get their news.   It showed that the highest scores on news knowledge was by people who listen to NPR.    The lowest rating was viewers of Fox News.  In fact, they score even lower than people who watch no news at all !!!      Which suggests that they are being misinformed.

Well, we already knew that, didn't we?    Now we have some objective evidence.

Ralph