I'm convinced these "Fox News on in the waiting room" of their doctor/dentist/auto repairman/sex change surgeon are their "go-to" Bouncies when they can think of nothing more creative:
Liberal_in_LA (29,600 posts)
faux news blaring in optometrist office. i left
In Los Angeles and with a zillion cable channels the decision to blare faux news on the only big ass TV in the waiting room is done deliberately to educate the masses. I quietly left, had already signed in.
I have never done that before. Got fed up.
They called me. I didn't pick up.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023382695"They called me. I didn't pick up."
Wouldn't it be funny if they were calling to tell the dumbass he/she had dropped their wallet in the waiting room?
MADem (89,287 posts)
1. I would have said "I am leaving and here's why."
How will they learn, unless you teach them?
The safe default is CNN--that offends everyone equally, it seems.
"Teach them" what? That you're a batshit crazy control freak who wets themselves if everyone isn't complying with their demands?
MADem (89,287 posts)
12. I walked out of a car repair shop that was blaring Limbaugh once.
I asked the guy to change the channel because it was very offensive and divisive, and he refused. So I "refused" to give them my business.
But here's the best part--a little old lady who was behind me in line followed me out the door, and said "I can't stand that asshole, either!"
We both took our business elsewhere!
Zoeisright (8,263 posts)
16. Me too.
I always speak up. If they won't change the channel, they don't get my money.
No one gives a shit about your little $1.98 worth of business, you self-important prick.
0rganism (16,988 posts)
3. I think it would be effective to let them know why you left
If they know that their zealotry is costing them money and possibly reputation, I think they'd be more likely to moderate their approach.
Fox News is #1 in cable news rankings. All the time. Zealotry would be putting some no-name dyke-o-saurus from PMSNBC on the tube instead.
Liberal_in_LA (29,600 posts)
7. a zimmerman segment was about start. it hit me emotIonally, welled up in me to flee
You poor dear, you.
Skittles (88,498 posts)
8. I ask them to change it
I only leave if they refuse
Mariana (2,549 posts)
29. Then they just turn it back after you leave.
Better to deprive them of your business altogether. Make it cost them to play that crap.
L0oniX (19,048 posts)
9. I have told them to change it now or I leave ...now. The 2 times I did that they changed it.
Both times they asked why. I called it a propaganda channel for morons. If ya don't speak up then you own it.
FLyellowdog (3,878 posts)
10. I ask to sit in the inner waiting room at my doctor's
because of the FOX tv. And I always say why. It makes me feel good. I once told them the reason my blood pressure was a little elevated was because of FOX news. The nurse laughed.
Here's a hint: When you say something like that and we nurses laugh, we aren't laughing
with you, we're laughing
at you, ****stick.
broiles (448 posts)
18. My gym now changes the channel automatically when I come in.
senseandsensibility (11,772 posts)
20. I told the woman in the bank (actually a credit union) we were thinking of transferring
our savings to that we were not going to patronize them because they were playing FAUX loudly in two places in their office. Completely unnecessary to be playing any TV (most banks don't do this) but if it is required for some reason, a neutral program of some kind, preferably non-political, would be the way to go I would think. Anyway, after we told her she just gaped at us. Literally. She was completely floored and did not even answer. So we left, they lost our business, and she still probably has no clue what we were talking about . And yes, we were calm, polite, and offered a brief explanation of our objection to the channel. When we received an open mouth bug-eyed blank stare, I thought it best to cut our losses and leave.
On the other hand, one of our favorite restaurants ( a chain) started to blare FAUX in the bar, we wrote to the corporate offices, and the next time we visited it was on CNN. It's been on CNN every time since. I'm also not a fan of CNN, but you've got to pick your battles.
CK_John (5,605 posts)
22. You do realize they are paid by Fox to have the TV set to their station. Usually
they supply the TV and provide the cable provider.
southernyankeebelle (11,278 posts)
27. I know what you mean. I was in a waiting room today at the hospital and they had
this big tv on Fox. I tried to block it out because I was reading. I tuned it out as much as possible. I have been to doctors offices and have asked them to change the channel if I am the only person in the room. I tell them ok if you don't want to watch any other news channels then put it on a channel where we can watch anything but news. I only had one doctor that the doctor doesn't want the channel changed. I only went to him one time though. Never again.
They sure seem to spend a lot of time in waiting rooms.
