Another anti-Fox News thread

[thundley4]

bcool (46 posts)           Sun Feb-14-10 10:47 PM
Original message
Fox News - it's everywhere!!@#$!@#$!@#$
   

I just got back from a Valentine's Day getaway with my wife, and I had to vent about the constant presence of Fox News on what seems like every public TV in this country.

Apparently all the TVs in this particular hotel would automatically tune to the Fox channel when they're turned on....how do they do that?? The TVs at most hotels I've stayed at usually return to the first channel when you turn them off. Not here - no matter what channel you're watching when you turn the TV off, it returned to Fox when it was turned on again. That drove me nuts!!! I tried going through the menu options to see if there was a default channel setting somewhere, but no luck - it appears to be set by the provider.

I am SO sick of being confronted with the Fux propaganda EVERYWHERE - at my work, at car dealers, restaurants, hotels.....etc., etc., etc!!!

It was blaring in the breakfast room with no remote in site, but I managed to switch the channel manually before other people came in the room.

I think the only way we can put an end to this (other than by changing the channel when we can) is to get to an ala carte cable bill...then, only the true die hards will explicitly pay for it.

 http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7715982

I guarantee that would spell the death of MSNBC and CNN.

lazarus   (1000+ posts)           Sun Feb-14-10 10:49 PM
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1. I feel your pain, but....
   
a la carte would suck. The niche channels are supported by the big channels, so we'd lose things like Science Channel. We'd be left with a few "popular" channels, and that's it.

You forgot losing Queef and Madcow.

Cha   (1000+ posts)             Sun Feb-14-10 10:50 PM
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2. No wonder there are so many gawd damn
   
stupid people in this country.

Wrong thread, this isn't about liberals being in charge of education/schools.

WarKillsChildren (9 posts)           Sun Feb-14-10 10:51 PM
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3. Complain
   
Tell the establishment that it's not acceptable. Fox news has to be challenged.

Uh, they have it on Fox, because that is what people ask for,  especially the paying customers.

L0oniX   (1000+ posts)             Sun Feb-14-10 10:55 PM
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5. I always complain and even walk out if they keep that shit on.

And they ignore your moonbat ass.

Initech (1000+ posts)             Sun Feb-14-10 11:06 PM
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7. And so the question remains - what liberal media????

Every other outlet but Fox, Dummie.

[The Village Idiot]

What ever happened to that boycott Fox News site?

Anyways, Red Eye at 3AM est, gets better ratings than some CNN shows in prime time.

Come on.

CNN is liberal. MSNBC is simply insane.

FNC is apparently one of the top cable channels, period. Not just news channels.

[Mike220]

And the DUmbasses don't disappoint. I was getting worried. Was sure we were going to get one day without a Faux (or in this case Fux) News thread.

[thundley4]

We need to start a boycott Keith Olbermann site.  We could claim instant success because of his low ratings. 

[diesel driver]

We need to start a boycott Keith Olbermann site.  We could claim instant success because of his low ratings. 

LOL!  I like it!   

BTW, is he still on the air?     I wouldn't know, I don't watch MSNBC, so I guess I've had my own personal boycott going for years now....

On another note, when I worked as an overnight cashier for Walmart, the little "hole-in-the-wall" bank across from the registers would usually have CNN on.  After the 10th rerun of Nancy Grace every night, I was about to do serious personal harm to their TV monitor.  I asked them one evening before closing (theirs, not ours) if they could change the channel to Fox News and they did.  I even got them to put on a NASCAR race now and then when they were Saturday night races.  Suck on THAT, DUmmies!

[TheSarge]

It's quite amusing to see just how terrified these idiots are of an opposing viewpoint.

[BlueStateSaint]

I even got them to put on a NASCAR race now and then when they were Saturday night races.  Suck on THAT, DUmmies!

Speaking of which, did ya see Daytona?  Gotta love McMurray!

[Lord Undies]

I recently stayed at a hotel that offered a free continental-type breakfast every morning.  When the breakfast hour was winding down, the host turned away from FOX News (big plasma TV) and onto CNN.  It helped to clear the room.

   

[Karin]

I thought that the awesome power and influence of the DU was supposed to have shut Fox down by now.   

[NHSparky]

I thought that the awesome power and influence of the DU was supposed to have shut Fox down by now.   

24 business hours.  That's all they need.  Well, that and some healing white light and pictures of hands.  Rupert can't stand up to pictures of hands.

[Specbid]

WarKillsChildren (9 posts)           Sun Feb-14-10 10:51 PM
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3. Complain
   
Tell the establishment that it's not acceptable. Fox news has to be challenged.

In my establishment, I'd laugh at you, turn it up and tell you to get the f*** out.

[Splashdown]

In my establishment, I'd laugh at you, turn it up and tell you to get the f*** out.

I'd tell them to shut up and go back to squeegeeing the windows. 

[diesel driver]

In my establishment, I'd laugh at you, turn it up and tell you to get the f*** out.

I'd tell him this ain't no democracy, this is house rules....

My house, my rules....

[NHSparky]

I'd tell them to shut up and go back to squeegeeing LICKING the windows. 

FIFY.

[Ralph Wiggum]

My parents play Rush's show at their small business nearly every day.  I've asked them if anyone ever complains (fishing for a bouncy story), but I guess no one ever has yet.

[Lord Undies]

My parents play Rush's show at their small business nearly every day.  I've asked them if anyone ever complains (fishing for a bouncy story), but I guess no one ever has yet.

I use to use WBAP AM radio as my telephone "on hold" music.  That meant anyone put on hold during Rush's three hours on the air got to listen to Rush.  There was never a complaint.

[NHSparky]

There's a family who has a little grill stand (hot dogs, sausages, cheesesteaks, etc) outside the local Home Depot, who has Rush on daily, along with the other local conservative commentators.  Doesn't seem to hurt their business a bit.

[Chris_]

My parents play Rush's show at their small business nearly every day.  I've asked them if anyone ever complains (fishing for a bouncy story), but I guess no one ever has yet.

Speaking of bouncies, I'm gonna call this one......every hotel that I've stayed in recently (which is several), when the TV is turned on, it defaults to the hotel's in-house information channel, or menu.......you have to actually pick up the channel directory card, and find whatever channel you want to watch, and change it.......

doc

[thundley4]

Every TV that I have ever owned, is on the last channel that it was on when I turned it off.

[Chris_]

Every TV that I have ever owned, is on the last channel that it was on when I turned it off.

TV sets in hotel rooms (that I have experienced) default to channel 2 when turned on........there is a menu setup parameter that does this.......I can even program my TV do do the same, if desired.....

doc

[GOBUCKS]

Speaking of bouncies, I'm gonna call this one......every hotel that I've stayed in recently (which is several), when the TV is turned on, it defaults to the hotel's in-house information channel, or menu.......you have to actually pick up the channel directory card, and find whatever channel you want to watch, and change it.......

doc

For the past several years, unless you're in a little independent fleabag, nearly all hotel TVs have defaulted to an in-house channel when first turned on, in an attempt to peddle some paid service - usually video games or movies. Maybe not all hotels, but every one I've been in, and I've been in a brazillion of them. The TVs in the lobby, restaurant, and bar are always on Fox, because that's what people who can afford to travel prefer, but in-room TVs are there to sell stuff.