Removed Fox News from my television

[thefloyd]

My god I literally feel better. I highly recommend removing Fox for those still undecided or want to know what the enemy is saying.

[bluerum]

1. My name is Dave, and I have not watched Fox for three years. eom

[depakid]

2. Smart move

I did the same thing about 5 years ago with all the CNN (and the spam and Pat Robertson channels).

Quite frankly, I'm better informed- and have better blood pressure- because of it.

Haven't thrown a remote since...:evilgrin:

[zoeb]

3. and miss all the, "missing white girl," stories

are you nuts. How would we know there is a "war on Christmas"? You gotta admit they're good for a laugh now and again.

[thefloyd]

12. Oh yeah

Definitely some good laughs.

[philosophie_en_rose]

4. I did that on the day they installed the cable.

Even watching Fox News on the way to other channels is too filthy for me.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

5. How does one remove offending channels?

[NV Whino]

8. Better yet

How does one let the offenders know you've removed them?

Note: I have no TV reception at all and refuse to get satellite.

[Triana]

6. I got rid of cable teevee in 2001

and haven't had it since. What took you so long? The main reason I did this was the "news" channels. They weren't, anymore and I could no longer stomach the constant spew of vomit coming from them. I absolutely REFUSE to pay anyone to put that garbage in my home. They'd have to pay ME to watch it. There is NO news on television. As soon as the dick-tators get finished figuring out how to filter and censor the internet a la China, there will be none there, either.

[PerceptionManagement]

7. Now we know what the Halliburton Concentration Camps are for...

All you non-Faux watchers will pay! PAY! You are making it too easy to be identified for internment!

[blue cat]

9. I'm much happier now

that I don't watch cable news. I will check out every now and then if there is a particular dem on. I check out crooksandliars.com and mediamatters.org since they watch so you won't have to, and still find out what the enemy is doing.

[kevinbgoode]

10. I think it is a good idea to inform

the cable company when you have programmed channels out. . .not only to make them see how much you are paying for that you don't want, but so that they can see how unpopular many channels really are in the community.

[thefloyd]

13. Good point

I need to make a call

[donheld]

11. It's been off my TV for about 4 years now

I do NOT miss it.

[NVMojo]

14. My DU name is NVMojo and I have not watched Fox News in 3 years

...and I'm proud of it!

[Arugula Latte]

15. I did that years ago.

Can't stand to flip by the All-Lies channel. It's much better for mental health.

[Kennicott]

16. Great for the blood pressure

I couldn't agree more with the comment about blood pressure
improvement coinciding with getting rid of FOX, that in
addition to tuning out the fanatic right radio stations (thank
GOD for Progressive). I haven't looked at FOX cable at home
for years now, I even cut off cable because of FOX, but since
then have taken up satellite which has it, but I don't even
know what channel FOX is on. I would pay extra just to get rid
of FOX.I see FOX every once in a while at the Club I workout
at. Sometimes I can’t get to the receiver in time to change
channels. During those brief periods I hear their programming,
so I know that  Paul Joseph Goebbels would be very proud of
Rupert Murdock.  

[Zen]

17. All sets in house have been deprogrammed - no big brother here!!

I get physically angry when I see what the 1984 big brother propaganda artists are spewing to gullible rednecks everywhere. The reason I don't care to watch is that the idiot rednecks who watch this stuff are beyond being saved, so why bother torturing myself for no reason.

[GrumpyGreg]

18. What's with the redneck stuff? A bit elitist,isn't it ? Jeesh !

[Dukkha]

19. no FOX no MTV here

for a while my Samsung TV had FOX labeled as "LIES"

[Chipper Chat]

20. I'll peruse Fox for amusement purposes.

I cant stand most of the pricks on there (and I will never watch O'Vomit-face-lly). But there are 2 shows I will stomach: The Beltway Boys with Barnes & Kondracke and The Evening Report with Brit Hume. I know what I'm getting and can salienize their R/W spew. I liked Brit on ABC, even though I discovered what direction he was coming from when he was reporting the results of the 1998 mid-terms. The shocked & hurt look on his face at the Dems picking up seats in both houses was revealing!
All that said, if it weren't for free cable coming with my apartment rent I would surely de-Fox my TV.

[pnorman]

21. I cut TV out of my life TOTALLY.

That was about 8 years ago, and I have NO regrets. (Actually, it was just a matter of letting my cable subscription lapse. Without cable, TV reception in my downtown Seattle apartment is all but useless.)

With a good DSL provider (Speakeasy.org) I make up for any "loss". And with my good friends here at DU to supply me with leads, insights, & late breaking news, I'm EASILY ahead of all those Ditto-heads. Most recently, I got an XM satellite receiver. Air America, BBC, C-Span, and all the rest ... I'm now in BLISS.

[file83]

22. Me too - I cut TV out of my TV. The funny part is - 99% of the time

I get the news hours if not 1 day before the MSM even talks about it. Magazines are often 1 week or more behind on the news.

The Internet is what TV wanted to be but couldn't.

[pnorman]

23. So you know what I mean.

If there are children in your household, cutting TV out of the family life, might be a bit too extreme. But otherwise, give it a try for a few weeks or so. (That's provide that you have broadband internet, and a reasonably capable computer). You'll probably NEVER look back.

My XM radio goes into my computer sound card, and splits out through a high performance FM transmitter (http://ccrane.com/radios/fm-transmitters/fm-transmitter.aspx). That means that wherever I am in the apartment, I can listen in. That could be XM radio reception, streaming audio, saved audio files, or from my large collection of Audible.com books.

pnorman

[high density]

24. I want à la carte cable

CNN/CNNHN/CNBC/MSNBC/FoxNews are all getting shitcanned from my lineup if that is ever available. I used to watch CNN all of the time, but now its "news" content is near zero percent. It's nothing more than a tool for propping up the Republicans so that Time Warner can make more money. The internet is so much better as a news source now.

Right after I drop those "news" channels, the damned sports channels are gone next. I swear those bandwidth sucking wastes of space make up a good 25% of my cable bill, yet I never watch them.