Let's limit the fox news mouthpiece

[Thekaspervote]

Recently President Obama said that it's a problem that everywhere you go there's fixed news blaring, sometimes with several screens so no matter where you are, there it is!

Today while waiting on my car to be serviced, there it was, fixed news, couldn't get away from it, 3 different screens! Didn't see a channel changer, so when I saw a suit walk past, I nicely but firmly said that not everyone wants to watch fox news. He was actually very nice, and agreed. Got the channel changer and voila. Now, I don't know if it stayed that way but... just sayin'

The next time I go in a restaurant, bar or any public establishment where fixed news is on if they won't change it, I'm leaving and I'm going to let them know why. If I make a reservation, I'm going to ask in they play fixed news, if they do I'm going to say well then just cancel my reservation. I'm going to ask all my friends family and all you DUer's to PLEASE do the same.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Do this all the time.

Hey,it is my dollars and if you are broadcasting Propaganda and false statements,I will inform you of it. Left many a retailer and service areas if the TV is blasting the Fox hate message.

[Cattledog]

2. I remember going into a local eatery and they had "Freedom Fries" on the menu...

left and haven't been back since.

[kimbutgar]

3. I stopped staying at !a Quinta motels because it was corporate policy to have fox on in the breakfas

Rooms. I comp,aimed and the manager said to me basically " tough shit". When I gif my email asking for a review of my stay I comp,signed and they answered back that it was corporate policy. Stopped staying there now I stay at best western. Either has local news or CNN in the breakfast room. A guy tried to turn on fox and the manager said no. My hubby and I laughed at him to his face.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

7. Thanks for sharing that about La Quinta.

I don't stay at hotels/motels very much anyway, but I'll never reserve rooms with them again after reading your post.

[FoxNewsSucks]

11. That may have changed, at least a little,

I didn't know that, and stayed at a LaQuinta in Springdale AR last week. They had the local CBS morning show on the tv in the breakfast room.

I never EVER leave the Fox "news" Sewer on a public tv. I change it myself. If the universal remote app on my phone won't change it for whatever reason, I will then ask to have it changed and make it clear that I'm leaving if it stays on.

[pnwmom]

15. Can you change the station in an airport waiting room with your universal remote ap?

That's the location I never can seem to get away from.

[FoxNewsSucks]

18. I haven't tried that,

I avoid flying. I'd rather drive to either coast than put up with the misery that flying has become. But the last couple times I did fly, the TV's were on CNN and the Weather Channel. So I don't know.

Some bars and places have disabled the TV channel changer because it is controlled by the cable or satellite box. If I can see the box, I change it, if not the "off" button always works so far.

[jehop61]

19. Don't think that's correct

Just did a cross country trip using LaQuinta exclusively. They are dog friendly. Every breakfast room had the weather channel playing. Check before boycotting a business. That's people's livelihood.

[Mr.Bill]

4. Several times I have been in waiting rooms

at businesses (tire stores, doctor's offices, etc) where they had a cable box and the remote laying there. When no one was looking I put a parental control password on the Fox News channel.

[mountain grammy]

5. Oh, you're good!

[Mr.Bill]

6. I have my moments.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. I've worked at places where the Republican co-workers insisted on FOX...

... in the break rooms.

Many of them showed signs of an addiction! If others insisted on keeping the channel on whatever else was showing (which didn't happen all that often), the pro-FOX guys would get antsy and eat their lunches in their vehicles so they could listen to AM radio instead. Their body language was so similar to people who needed a "fix" for an addiction!

[kimbutgar]

16. I told my husband how to block fox on the tv in his break room at work

But this little right winger figured out what he did and put fox back in and then changed the password to lock him out.

[secondwind]

8. Faux News is everywhere, piped into nursing homes, 7-Elevens, waiting rooms at hospitals,etc.

[joetubes]

10. Channel changer

Start carrying a brick, don't use it just show it as your changer!

[tavernier]

12. Our very dem friend was in the hospital in a coma

The tv in his room was on faux news.
His son came in and screamed for the nurse. "Are you purposely trying to kill my father?"

They changed the channel.

Sadly, he passed days later.

I sometimes wonder if that didn't have something to do with it.

[RobertDevereaux]

13. Turning many TVs off...

TV-B-GON

[kimbutgar]

17. Doesn't work brought one awhile ago.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. I recommend Game Show Network....

Deal or No Deal, Family Feud, etc...