Don't be shy, ask for a channel change.

[Pacifist Patriot]

I used to suffer in silence, but no longer. I just returned from lunch at a restaurant/bar with televisions in view of all tables. The television facing me was tuned into Faux News. I smiled at the server and politely asked if I could get a news channel instead. A simple, "sure!" and a few moments later I had the remote in my hand.

I have asked doctors' waiting rooms to change the channel. My OB/gyn no longer tunes in to Faux News because I know a lot of women who also go to his practice and we sent a polite letter requesting he block the station. He had no idea what was on in the waiting room and couldn't have cared less.

What I'm finding is that in most cases the people at the establishments don't much care what is on the television set...and will leave it on whatever you put it on until someone else thinks to ask.

If you see Faux News in public...smile and simply ask for a different channel. You never know what mind you may have spared after you leave.

[Dinger]

1. Excellent Suggestion!!

I sometimes do the same thing - I ALWAYS do when I see Faux on in a public place.:)

[electropop]

2. Good idea.

The place I used to get my minor car maintenance done, always had Faux on in the waiting room. Now they are closed. Coincidence? I don't think so.

[Suziq]

3. Faux All Over the Place

They always have Faux on in my doctor's office. When I went to get a hair cut the other day, it was also on there.

I am now going to ask them to change the channel.

[VolcanoJen]

4. At a bar I used to work at, I always had this argument with customers.

The other side of this story...

I'd work the lunch shift. There were two TV's behind the bar. I always kept one on ESPN, and the other, especially after 9/11, on either CNN or MSNBC.

Customers would often ask me for a channel change to Fox. I would always answer them with "No." They would say, "Well, why not?" and I would answer "Because I'm the bartender and I don't want to watch Fox Fucking Propaganda Bullshit News, that's why." They'd always just kind of wither, sink down, and sip their scotch.

So I guess it's a two-way street... and in my opinion, the customer is not always right. }(

[Pacifist Patriot]

9. LOL! No, they aren't.

8 years of retail was about 7 years 364 days longer than I needed to figure that out. :)

So far I've never had anyone refuse to change from Faux News, but I'm sure it will happen sooner or later. Until then, one television at a time.....

[flowomo]

5. good suggestion.... even if it doesn't work in all cases

n/t

[Career Prole]

6. I was called Saturday by a DirecTV salesperson who promised

many wonderful things if I returned to the fold, since I was a former "valuable" subscriber to the service.

Her pitch was going according to her script until I told her that I had switched to Dish Network solely because Rupert Murdoch's FAUX empire had gobbled up DirecTV and "I don't like Rupert Murdoch, and it's that simple".

She said quite plainly, "What?"

I repeated my stated dislike for Murdoch.
At that point she thanked me and let me go.

I hope they were making her keep a logbook...

[Village Idiot]

7. In Canada, Faux bitched, whined, moaned and complained...

that they weren't considered by the CRTC to be a news network - the CRTC felt that "Fox News offers little Canadian coverage and is not "partially or totally competitive with any Canadian pay or specialty service."

Fox News was unavailable in Canada for a long time.

Now we have Faux News, but ExpressVu and StarChoice have yet to package it into the "News" packages they provide...If you want it, you have to pay for it. I like it that way...

[Pacifist Patriot]

10. Excellent!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

8. Faux is eye candy.

I find myself stopping on it (while surfing) all the time and I know better. I guess we shouldn't assume that businesses that have it on meant anything by it.

[Pacifist Patriot]

11. I think that is why I was reluctant to say anything at first. I assumed

these offices, waiting areas, bars, etc. had them on because they specifically chose the channel for whatever reason and really didn't want to get into a debate. Since starting to ask I've been taken by the number of people who really had no clue what was on and didn't much care what I changed it to. I'm sure I'll run into resistance sooner or later but even if it only worked 10% of the time I'd still do it.