How Many Places Do You Go Where FOX Is On A TV?

[ThomWV]

I notice FOX everywhere. The local Sear store's automotive section has a little waiting room ... FOX all day long. Local Auto Parts place has a TV up on the end of the counter ... FOX all day long. Down at the Dairy Mart (local convenience store chain) there's a TV on the back wall ... FOX day and night. Electronics appliance store, 200 TVs; every shining Admiral, Toshiba, and Sony ... FOX open to close. You couldn't find anything else on a the TV in any VFW in this part of the world.

What is it about FOX that makes it the backdrop of choice so very often? Is it the bright colors, the constant movement on scree, flashy mindless video fireworks that never seem to end? I notice that no one seems to pay much attention to it, but of course its there all the time spreading its vile message subconsciously if nothing else.

Am I just overly sensitive to this? Do you notice the damnable FOX everywhere you go too?

[bigscott]

my gym

has a line of treadmills and stuff that has tvs in front of each maching (mounted from the ceiling) - I walk along them until the 3 or so in front of me are NOT on FUX news

[leftchick]

1. Nissan repair

BB&T Bank, Car Wash, Dr. Office waiting room, too many places.

[htuttle]

2. None

Nowhere in Madison. At least not that I've seen. Probably gets watched in a few bars around town, but not the ones I go to.

[linazelle]

3. You aren't imagining things. It's like they're Coca Cola or something.

It pisses me off too. I travel a lot and you can't go to an airport or a hotel where it isn't on. If you go to a restaurant, it's on many times in the waiting lounge.

Somebody turns those TVs to Fox. I wonder if they are all just in synch with each other or if something else is going on.

One of my most politically compatible friends even watches Fox, though I've told her about them and the lies. I don't get it. I never watched Fox even before Bush. They were and continue to be too elementary for me.

[Seedersandleechers]

4. Check this out!!!!

Now you can do something about it.


http://www.tvbegone.com/

[tinfoilinfor2005]

36. Fantastic! Too bad it doesn't change the channels as well.

And since they seem to like comedy, I'd switch them all over to comedy central.

[Toucano]

47. I don't care what channel it's on.

Television in public places is ALWAYS obnoxious.

Turn them all off and step away from the remote.

[seabeyond]

5. in my cardiologists office to do heart test. 120 over 86

i always range around 60's. i told them i am never that high. probably having to sit in their waiting room with fox news on.

in the donut shop.... called owner and said i wont be back in

at the car wash, told manager i wont use them anymore

in the pharmacy..... told her how offensive to have to listen to that bullshit and knowing that it is pro repug is like telling me i dont count or matter. and as a customer that isnt ok

[Atman]

6. Everywhere.

I never, ever see any television playing in a public place where it plays anything but FOX news. Ever.


ON EDIT...oops, I take it back. My dentist's office plays a loop of gum disease films on its teevee. I find them infinitely more enjoyable than five minutes of Fox News.

[Systematic Chaos]

7. I work in a call center

One of the largest clients in the facility where I work is a satellite TV company. They have a lot of TV's all over the place, even in areas not used by the satellite company. Invariably, one will be set to Fox, one to CNN and at least one to ESPN. I can easily ignore them at least.

[peekaloo]

8. Local Quickie Mart and Midas Muffler shop.

Midas even has Christian reading material spread around their waiting area.

[babylonsister]

9. If you're going to be there for any length of time, request a

channel change. You're a paying customer and deserve it.
Happened in a MX restaurant here, we asked, they changed.
Most people don't want to make it an issue; I say make it one!

[BlueStateBlue]

10. It was on in the breakfast room of a hotel I stayed in last summer

in Tennessee (I'm from NJ). As soon as I walked in, I asked "does anyone mind if I change the channel?" I got no response, so I changed it and muttered "sorry, can't deal with the propaganda channel".

Try it, you might be surprised at the reaction.

[Red Knight]

13. good observation

Absolutely true.

One of my favorite sandwhich shops has it on both televisions with signs that inform everyone "Do not touch television". Horrible. My pulimanry doctor has it on and he seems very anti-Bush. I don't get that one. It's everywhere.

On the other hand--most cable news is slanted right except for Olbermann on MSNBC perhaps. But Fox? Ugggh.

[napi21]

11. Nowhere that I go!

The few places I go that have a TV on the wall never have FOX on, unless it's a football or baseball game. I live in Ga! Gee, I wonder if there's still some hope????

[Caution]

12. I always ask them to change it

If they don't I generally leave.

[RethugAssKicker]

14. Its all over the South.

Every bar/saloon has their TVS turned to FOX... The waiting rooms at Car delearships, garages etc... all FOX!... Its absolutely disgusting.

I feel like I'm living in the dark ages!

[shenmue]

15. Grand Central

They show it at the large newsstand shops.

[Virginia Dare]

16. Seems like Crappy News Network is usually on....

especially in the airports, but I make a conscious effort to tune it all out anyway.

[RB TexLa]

17. Don't really care what is on others televisions

[jrw14125]

18. it's on every tv at Pentagon, Old Executive Ofc. Building, & White House

[Island Blue]

19. I was at my gym on the elliptical machine the other day

and luckily I had control of the remote. (It's a small gym.) I was watching local news, and it was the bottom of the hour so there were a lot of commercials on every local channel. A guy who had come in after I did, asked if I could change the channel to Fox. I said (very politely) "Sorry, I can't do that - it'll raise my blood pressure." "It will?" he asked. "Yep it will." I said. Damn that felt good!

[FoxNewsSucks]

22. I keep a Sony remote

in my gym bag. All the tv's there are Sony. I got tired of changing the channel off of Fox "News" all the time, so I just used my remote to delete the channel # out of the tv memories. I love watching some rightwing idiot going through channels, and finally giving up.

I never leave Fox on a TV. I always change it, or ask the business to do it if I can't get to the tv myself. If there are menu buttons on the tv, I delete Fox out of it.

[Liberty Belle]

28. KICKED & RECOMMENDED! Great idea. Can you start a new thread

with this suggestion on how to create "Fox Free" zones?

[LiberalPartisan]

33. If you have a PDA

You can get a program that manages any IR capable electronic device...one remote does it all and you can appear to be 'working'....http://www.mynevo.com/html.php?page_id=5

[Arugula Latte]

39. Oh my gawd FoxNewsSucks -- You are my hero!

That is freaking HILARIOUS! What a great idea!

[stop the bleeding]

45. BEST IDEA YET - start a separate thread please

this kicks ass

[Cosmocat]

49. The FREAKIN GYM ...

It drives me N U T S ... As noted, jacks my blood pressure up ...

[sharp_stick]

20. Nowhere

They tried an experiment in the cafeteria where they would mix Faux and CNN on a daily switch but had so many complaints about faux news that they just leave it on cnn now.

[tsuki]

21. Not as many as I once saw.

[femmocrat]

23. They have it on in the school (where I work) office!

Makes me crazy! Everyone who goes into the office has to see it on a monitor hanging in the office!

[Vinnie From Indy]

24. Tell them to change it

I have on many occasions.

[stop the bleeding]

26. Me as well, every where that I go that I spend money in

ie: a lunch place or bar, that has this channel on I immediately ask them to change it, while following up with the business shouldn't engage in promoting propaganda with a Nazi reference thrown in for added effect.

[0007]

25. Security State Bank in Midland Texas

[paparush]

27. My Barber, our Local Mom & Pop resturants, my parents house...

[jsamuel]

29. Smokey Bones

[JHB]

30. Does FOX pay for this exposure and "advertising"?

It occurs to me that by paying outlets to show their channel, they can guarantee so many additional "eyeballs" (many more than they'd get from cable subscribers alone) for advertisers, so they can charge more and come out ahead moneywise.

"We'll set up all these nifty plasma TVs, provide the feed, pay you for us to do it, and all you have to do is give us a call if they stop working."

In fact, I wonder what part of Fox's ratings come from this sort of "involuntary viewing".

[Midlodemocrat]

31. Wachovia Bank.

I have a small account there so I can fund my kids Visa Buxx cards. Every frigging time I go in there, they have all the TVs set to Faux. It is maddening.

I don't go often. Thank God for the drive through.

[ourbluenation]

32. Jet Blue Airlines only has fox news on it's in-flight digital line up

as the network cable news choice. No msnbc or cnn. They do however have headline news.

[Joe Fields]

34. At the restaurant where my wife and I sometimes go to eat breakfast

[bullwinkle428]

35. YMCA - it's a small town, so I don't really have another option.

They have 8 TVs, and both of the "news TVs" are tuned to Fox. They even offered a member survey, and I added my own comments after checking my box for CNN, but apparently there weren't enough of us to make our point. I guess I'm getting the last laugh when I move out of this crappy town once I sell my house, and move to a very blue metro area some 30 miles away!

[Massacure]

37. There is a simple solution:

http://www.tvbgone.com/cfe_tvbg_main.php

Happy Easter. :)

[msgadget]

38. A bank n/t

[emdee]

40. Doctors' waiting rooms

There are a few that have a note "feel free to change the channel", thankfully. But many do not give that option.

What happened to QUIET waiting rooms?

emdee

[newportdadde]

41. YMCA use to have it on all the, not much though in the past year.

Seems as if its popularity much like the RW is on the decline.

Hey funny story 2 years to the day on anniversary of 911 I'm in the Y working out, Fox news in on of course. Nobody was around but the lady watching Fox. They show stock footage of the planes hitting the WTC 2 years ago.

The lady next to me goes "OMG! OMG! they attacked us again!"

I shit you not..

[Scout1071]

42. I always ask the manager to change it. nt

[Weembo]

43. Actually, in Houston, the number is dropping! n/t

[global1]

44. I Made A Similar Comment About Fox Long Ago on DU......

I travel a great deal and it always amazed me to walk through an airport and see Fox on TV's. Many hotels I've stayed in have lobby bar TV's with Fox channel on. I just don't understand it. At first - after 9/11 - I thought conspiracy - when I'd see it on in airports.

[sinkingfeeling]

46. No place. I will not step foot in a place with that *@# on the TV.

[RandomKoolzip]

48. I've eaten at restaurants that have had Fox on, and...

I've told the servers that I'd tip them extra to change the channel. They do it right away, and I always make good on my promise.

[Initech]

50. More of the places I go have Fox SPORTS than Fox News.

It still sucks that Fox is on TV all the time. Damn that Rupert Murdoch!!!

[BiggJawn]

51. I always look at for a second....

...shake my head in disgust and sneer "I can't BELIEVE intelligent people actually listen to that propaganda bullshit!"