Choosing to block out Fox News

[struggle4progress]

<snip> Kimery figures he's sold about 100 of the little silver bits of metal that screw into the back of most televisions, allowing people to filter Fox News from their sets, since its August debut.

The Tulsa, Okla., resident also has received thousands of e-mails, both angry and complimentary -- as well as a few death threats.

Formerly a registered Republican, even a precinct captain, Kimery became an independent in the 1990s when he said the state party stopped taking input from its everyday members.

Kimery now contends Fox News' top-level management dictates a conservative journalistic bias, that inaccuracies are never retracted, and what winds up on the air is more opinion than news. "I might as well be reading tabloids out of the grocery store," he says. "Anything to get a rise out of the viewer and to reinforce certain retrograde notions." <snip>

http://www.pe.com/entertainment/stories/PE_Fea_Ent_D_foxblocker.58635.html

[Berserker]

1. God speed Kimery

I hope he will keep on selling these to send a message. I never watch the channel but I love the Idea he has.

[Ms Chicklet]

2. I already block Faux News

My digital cable package comes with parental controls that allow you to block channels. So I blocked Faux News.

[MrModerate]

3. Really -- why block it? Just don't watch the crap.

Or, take advantage of Fox's useful features:

* Evaluate the meme/Repub talking points currently running through the rapture-based community

* Note advertisers to be avoided

* Maximize the number of times per hour you can spit on your TV ("People who don't spit on their TV just aren't paying attention")

* Refresh your resolve that these people must go

-- and many others.

[Sapphire Blue]

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