Screw chain outlets forcing Fox down customers.

[dutch508]

lambchopp59 (1,907 posts)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216427346

Screw chain outlets forcing Fox down customers.

I've been letting Loves Truck Stops know how they are offending many customers on their website:

"Many of my family are avoiding Loves truck stops because of Fox News being forced onto patrons at many locations. Forcing political propaganda onto a customer base is not a good business practice, and only becoming more offensive since the haphazard lethal falsehoods about the pandemic."

I encourage others to do so too. It's long past time we let these people know how they are offending Americans.

 

Star Member Kaleva (29,613 posts)

1. How is one forced to watch Fox?

The people who want to watch it will watch it. Those who don't won't.

Star Member milestogo (11,558 posts)

2. If you go into a business and they are broadcasting it you are being 'forced' to watch Fox.

I was at a dentist once where there was Fox News on the TV in the treatment room. I asked them to turn it off.

 

Star Member Kaleva (29,613 posts)

4. If I'm in a place of business, why would I watch TV unless I chose to do so?

Star Member milestogo (11,558 posts)

5. If there is a mounted TV and it is broadcasting FOX you are being exposed to it.

Star Member Kaleva (29,613 posts)

8. Only if you choose to be exposed

You can choose to ignore it.

When the little grandkids are over and they want to watch Blippi, I'm aware it's on TV but I can easily tune it out unless I choose to sit, watch and learn about colors and counting to 10.

stopdiggin (6,115 posts)

34. are you really going to pursue this line of reasoning?

So it's OK for the doctor's office to be blaring away propaganda and misinformation? But we can all just stick our fingers in our ears - and do the, "la, la, la, - can't hear you" thing. If we're offended of course. Jeez, buddy! A clue please!

Star Member doc03 (29,756 posts)

3. I have.been in many hotels, restaurants and other

places that have their TV tuned to Fox. The gym I used to go to had every TV tuned to Fox when they opened every morning. You had to get an employee to change to another channel.

Star Member Irish_Dem (21,580 posts)

14. It is like a big brother screen. Broadcast in many public places.

Seeps into our psyches whether we like it or not.

D_Master81 (1,630 posts)

7. In this area it's unavoidable

Nearly every restaurant, bar, food court, doctors office, mechanic, place of public gathering has a TV on somewhere with Fox News on it. I’ve been paying attention over the years and most places if they have multiple tvs, 1 will have Fox News on. Some if that’s all they have. If you ask to change it you usually will get the “I don’t know where the remote is”. Which may honestly be true, the owner set it and doesn’t want it to be changed.

Star Member Kaleva (29,613 posts)

30. So, has the exposure to Fox influenced you in any way?

Star Member doc03 (29,756 posts)

53. Yes Fox News played a big part in the attempted coup on January 6th. They are helping Republicans take away
voting rights and steal the 2022 election. The end of conversation.

Mary in S. Carolina (1,189 posts)

55. When I am going

about my day, I do not have to be assaulted by Faux News throwing up Trump and their stank on me. It is offensive and should be turned off in businesses. I have complained to multiple companies, including my bank, the gas station, etc. One bank refused, so I withdrew all of my money - needless to say this branch went out of business - LOL (I guess I was not the only person that withdrew my money).

 

Swede (29,719 posts)

32. You realise that rightwing media is insidious.

It turned my brother from a decent human being into to a rightwing nut. It started with rightwing radio whispering in his ear, which moved him Fox. So, no it is not harmless.

Star Member Kaleva (29,613 posts)

35. But he chose to listen to RW radio

And then watch Fox.

And no where have I said it's not harmless.

Swede (29,719 posts)

44. No he didn't. It was background in his shop.

I'd pop in and he'd be working and you could here the radio, but it wasn't blaring. It just seeped into his subconcious. You ever go on reddit, there is a whole subreddit on this. How it hooked relatives and friends, parents etc.

 

Star Member Irish_Dem (21,580 posts)

15. Fox News is a Russian news outlet. It needs to go out of business.

MarineCombatEngineer (5,273 posts)

22. I'm a long haul truck driver

and I rarely sit inside a Love's Truck Stop and watch TV, or any truck stop for that matter, and even if I eat inside, I still don't watch TV, I eat my meal and then I head out to my truck, climb into my sleeper and watch TV or get on my computer, which I'm doing right now.

Nobody is forced to watch Faux on TV at any truck stop, one chooses to, just ignore it, like most do.

Brainstormy (2,287 posts)

23. apparently you've never had an oil or tire change

in a Fox-running 12 x 14 waiting room. Of course you don't have to watch it. You can plug your ears and put on a blindfold.
I find your position very naive.

MarineCombatEngineer (5,273 posts)

25. I don't give a crap what you find my position as, every truck driver I know has a smart phone, laptop, etc, if I have to have repairs done and I wait inside while it's being done, I'll either be on my phone or my laptop, and that's the way it is with the vast majority of us.

Apparently you don't know what you're talking about.

Star Member Chainfire (7,730 posts)

24. It bothers me too

I just don't shop with businesses that play rightwingnut propaganda. As far as that goes, I quit eating at Wendy's because I couldn't tolerate the endless loop of Christian music. As much as I like their products, I wouldn't set foot in a Hobby Lobby or Chick-Fil-A. I protest with my pocketbook. I like Love's because of their clean restrooms, but I won't go there.

Sympthsical (3,378 posts)

43. I sort of always enjoy the "TV in the waiting room" complaints

There are TVs in many places, and I'm trying to imagine this Clockwork Orange scenario everyone except me seems to be experiencing. Are people being possessed by a Poltergeist? Run into the light, Carol Anne!

I just read my phone when there's a TV around. In addition to Fox, I don't want to watch CNN or MSNBC either, so I don't when they're around (hello, airports!). At the gym, earbuds and either remixes with good beats for cardio or podcasts while lifting.

Learning to just ignore things is a lost art in our society. We've become a complaint culture, where anything out of sync with personal preference ends up being pointlessly crusaded against.

I mean, it's fine. But so much energy that isn't really, "doing something." Useful vs useless vigor.

And then to signal about it. "I complained about something today!"

 

Star Member global1 (23,260 posts)

45. Just Wondering If One Had A Universal Remote - Could....

one walk in and point it at the TV to change the channel and perhaps set the 'parental control' to prevent returning to the objectionable channel?

That would be cool if one could do that!!!

Dial H For Hero (2,475 posts)

54. Interfering with someone else's private property. How "cool".

Reminds me of the threads where someone brags about going to a bookstore and flipping around all the books whose politics they don’t like.

 

[67 Rover]

Star Member milestogo (11,558 posts)

5. If there is a mounted TV and it is broadcasting FOX you are being exposed to it.

Quick I've been exposed! Pass the Iodine tablets. 

[SVPete]

lambchopp59 (1,907 posts)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216427346

Screw chain outlets forcing Fox down customers.

Does anybody know what in Hades DU-Sheeple lambchopp59 is talking about? I realize that places like Best Buy have scads of TVs showing whatever customers chose so as to show the picture quality, but other than first thing in the morning, the channels are what customers chose. If customers are choosing Fox, DU-Sheeple lambchopp59 should find that worrisome.

[SVPete]

Star Member doc03 (29,756 posts)

3. I have.been in many hotels, restaurants and other

places that have their TV tuned to Fox. The gym I used to go to had every TV tuned to Fox when they opened every morning. You had to get an employee to change to another channel.

Having been a member of a major gym chain during parts of 3 Presidents' administrations, I'm calling BS on this .

1. No business that hopes to stay in business would risk alienating 1/3-2/3 of their potential customer base.

2. The gym at which I was a member tuned its TVs to multiple channels: 2 or 3 to CNN; 1 or 2 to MSNBC; 1, usually, to Fox; lots to various sport events; 2 or 3 to videos advertising the gym's services. If I cared to avoid CNN or MSNBC or Fox, all I had to do was move 2 or 3 treadmills or ellipticals to the left or right. Or maybe look a few feet to the left or right of the TV I was avoiding.

3. The only time I spoke of a problem to the front counter people was when a machine was not operating properly. Because I'm not DU-Whiny.

[landofconfusion80]

The majority of truckers are conservative.  Loves is catering to its core customer base.

[USA4ME]

stopdiggin

34. are you really going to pursue this line of reasoning?

So it's OK for the doctor's office to be blaring away propaganda and misinformation? But we can all just stick our fingers in our ears - and do the, "la, la, la, - can't hear you" thing. If we're offended of course. Jeez, buddy! A clue please!

Saying to ignore it IS reasonable. But to this primitive, it's wrong to "pursue this line of reasoning," a line a reasoning which decent and civilized people would regard as being reasonable.

The stopdiggin primitive is the one who needs to gain a clue and stop digging.

Irish_Dem

15. Fox News is a Russian news outlet. It needs to go out of business.

I believe this primitive is the former "Sean Reynolds" primitive who, upon joining DU back around 2004, used the flag of the Soviet Union in his sig line.

They're nothing if not inconsistent.

.

[Karin]

One bank refused, so I withdrew all of my money - needless to say this branch went out of business - LOL (I guess I was not the only person that withdrew my money).

 

"Needless to say."

There was a short thread yesterday where the DUmmie wanted to "arrest Fox News for sedition and treason." 

[Ralph Wiggum]

"Needless to say."

There was a short thread yesterday where the DUmmie wanted to "arrest Fox News for sedition and treason."

Back at our old home when I first joined CU almost 20 years ago, there was a "primitive of prominence" named Walt Starr who vociferously protested a "Big and Tall Men's Store" in his native Chicagoland area.  Emphasis on "Big".  Anyway, Walt was really perturbed that the store was "blaring" the Sean Hannity radio show during his visits there.  The store never closed like the aforementioned bank that supposedly closed after one irate customer withdrew her couple hundred bucks.

Poor ol' Walt Starr mysteriously disappeared from the DUmp sometime around 2005, which is our loss for his/her/its comedic value.  Frank might recall that person or maybe someone else as well.  Tried to find that classic Walt DUmp screed to no avail.

[freedumb2003b]

Airports otoh...

[USA4ME]

Some primitive needs to post that they went into a store that was playing MSNBC and asked for the channel to be changed to something non-political. Let's see if the primitives sing the same turn or if they're hypocrites. I'm pretty sure we know the answer without even having to run the experiment.

.

[SVPete]

Star Member Chainfire (7,730 posts)

24. It bothers me too

I just don't shop with businesses that play rightwingnut propaganda. As far as that goes, I quit eating at Wendy's because I couldn't tolerate the endless loop of Christian music. As much as I like their products, I wouldn't set foot in a Hobby Lobby or Chick-Fil-A. I protest with my pocketbook. ...

Wendy's has "endless loop of Christian music"? I haven't been in one for years (distance from where I live, not a quality issue), but I don't remember hearing Christian music or music generally. CfA does play instrumental Christian music, so I suspect Star Member Chainfire confused the two. The now deceased founder of Wendy was very Pro-Life and caught lots of feminazi flak for it.

For all their poutrage and boycotting, Wendy's, CfA, and Hobby Lobby seem to be doing rather well. Ten years ago the nearest CfA to Silicon Valley was a 1 1/2-2 hour drive away, in Fairfield. Now there are enough in the SF Bay Area that numbering how many are in Silicon Valley would depend on how one defines (geographically) "Silicon Valley".

[DLR Pyro]

While most think the serious fighting is going on in Ukraine, the real battle is taking place right here on the homefront with the army of the DUmb fighting to protect others from the evils of broadcasts from Fox News. 

[Old n Grumpy]

Star Member milestogo (11,558 posts)

5. If there is a mounted TV and it is broadcasting FOX you are being exposed to it.

Sounds like you ned a better tinfoil helmet, one made with Reynolds  wrap and a second layer of Duct tape, not the el cheapo store brand!

[ADsOutburst]

Uh oh. Is this DU poster afraid they'll get persuaded to the "wrong" side?

[Texacon]

Some primitive needs to post that they went into a store that was playing MSNBC and asked for the channel to be changed to something non-political. Let's see if the primitives sing the same turn or if they're hypocrites. I'm pretty sure we know the answer without even having to run the experiment.

.

Better yet, let them brag they went in with a universal remote and changed it from MSLSD to HGTV.  Then blocked all the news channels using parental controls.

KC

[dandi]

Swede (29,719 posts)

44. No he didn't. It was background in his shop.

I'd pop in and he'd be working and you could here the radio, but it wasn't blaring. It just seeped into his subconcious. You ever go on reddit, there is a whole subreddit on this. How it hooked relatives and friends, parents etc.

"The Force can have a strong influence on the weak minded"   

Dial H For Hero (2,475 posts)

54. Interfering with someone else's private property. How "cool".

Reminds me of the threads where someone brags about going to a bookstore and flipping around all the books whose politics they don’t like.

If I were browsing in a book store and saw a bunch of books turned backwards, I think that would pique my curiosity more than anything else, and I'd be drawn to turning them over to see what they were. Just sayin.'

[FunkyZero]

Uh oh. Is this DU poster afraid they'll get persuaded to the "wrong" side?

that is EXACTLY why they despise opposing viewpoints.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Swede (29,719 posts)

44. No he didn't. It was background in his shop.

I'd pop in and he'd be working and you could here the radio, but it wasn't blaring. It just seeped into his subconcious. You ever go on reddit, there is a whole subreddit on this. How it hooked relatives and friends, parents etc.

Is that why so many of us are addicted and brainwashed from hearing Muzak in the 70's and 80's?

Swede is a disgrace to their Swedish heritage.  And humanity for thinking people are that stupid.

[enslaved1]

"The Force can have a strong influence on the weak minded"   


If I were browsing in a book store and saw a bunch of books turned backwards, I think that would pique my curiosity more than anything else, and I'd be drawn to turning them over to see what they were. Just sayin.'

I do that quite frequently.  Since I'm usually in used books stores/thrift stores, I'm guessing someone's trying to hide a good find until they can come back for it. 

[FlaGator]

Yet they have no issue with shoving false information down the public throat and the attempted indoctrination of people in public education.

[SVPete]

Uh oh. Is this DU poster afraid they'll get persuaded to the "wrong" side?

that is EXACTLY why they despise opposing viewpoints.

DU-grade Progs also don't like seeing how many normal Americans reject and/or tolerate questioning their ideology.

[SVPete]

Swede (29,719 posts)

44. No he didn't. It was background in his shop.

I'd pop in and he'd be working and you could here the radio, but it wasn't blaring. It just seeped into his subconcious. You ever go on reddit, there is a whole subreddit on this. How it hooked relatives and friends, parents etc.

Somebody's swum up the Egyptian River past the third cataract, !

Let's try a less psychamobabbling explanation: people heard Rush and agreed with him and/or were persuaded by him. No sinister subliminal something-or-other, no addiction, just people agreeing with him and appreciating his balance of humor and information.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

They fear everyone is as easily brainwashed as they are.