Whenever I hear of FOX news blaring on public televisions while customers wait

lunatica

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 06:24 AM
Original message

Whenever I hear of FOX news blaring on public televisions while customers wait

Edited on Fri Apr-16-10 06:34 AM by lunatica

I think of this scene in the movie 1984. I think this could easily happen eventually as a natural progression to the propaganda FOX spews. Am I being paranoid?

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

geckosfeet

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 06:28 AM
Response to Original message

1. No. Chewing gum for the mind - with the added ingredient of subliminal coercion.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

ThomWV

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 06:36 AM
Response to Original message

2. Whenever I see FOX playing in a public place I ask them to change it or turn it off

and if they don't or say they can't then I say, sorry to hear that and I leave without spending a dime.

I make it a point not to spend money where propaganda is dispensed.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

C_U_L8R

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 06:59 AM
Response to Reply #2

5. Same here

I'm not contributing a penny to a business that forces faux on its customers

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 07:02 AM
Response to Reply #2

6. I do the same except

I tell them why I am leaving. Surprises me how many other people will complain and leave after I say something.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

peacebird

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 07:03 AM
Response to Reply #2

7. Pro-active approach - I like it! Good job!

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

mwb970

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 07:06 AM
Response to Reply #2

8. I will not buy from a business that forces propaganda on their customers.

I politely tell them why I'm going elsewhere and then I go. And I don't come back.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

TheCowsCameHome

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 07:31 AM
Response to Reply #2

9. Out the fucking door. Period.

And given the chance, I tell them why I'm leaving.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

hlthe2b

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 08:04 AM
Response to Reply #2

10. Ditto... and I tell them I will not return and neither will my family

or any like-minded friends who I will shortly inform. To have FOX on, shows their contempt for their customers, IMHO and I intend to let them know so.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

caty

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 10:30 AM
Response to Reply #2

19. Ditto

I do exactly the same thing. :toast:

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

lunatica

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 06:42 AM
Response to Original message

3. A photoshop of Limbaugh's face on the screen might make the point well

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

lunatica

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 06:43 AM
Response to Original message

4. Or this one of Newt Gingrich

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

rurallib

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 08:20 AM
Response to Original message

11. I was waiting for a car repair one day. So I turned on FreeSpeechTV

while I was waiting. The dealer had DISH tv and the other 5 people were paying no attention. So I took the remote and turned on FSTV.
Michael Palin was speakingwas giving a talk about food. One youngish farmer type in the back started making some noise. When I finally paid attention to him he made a loud statement that 'this guy probably knows nothing about farming.I bet he has never been on a farm.'
So I responded - 'I see preachers all over the TV talking about Jesus and heaven. I bet not a one of them has met Jesus or been to heaven. I bet you know some like that.'
The guy yelled something at me and stomped out. Never saw him again.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

lunatica

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 08:25 AM
Response to Reply #11

12. They really hate it when you mess with their blind faith!

They always seem to leave in a hurry...

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

rurallib

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 08:37 AM
Response to Reply #12

13. I have decided that I no longer just hide in a corner and let the bully push me around.

Ergo, yesterday I stand in the middle of the baggers holding my sign that quotes MLK on health care.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Arugula Latte

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 11:07 AM
Response to Reply #11

26. rurallib -- Did you mean Michael Pollan or Michael "Dead Parrot" Palin?

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

rurallib

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 09:12 PM
Response to Reply #26

28. you are right - Pollan. I always do that

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

safeinOhio

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 08:44 AM
Response to Original message

14. Suffer no more

I bring you

http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MKCE1

fun for the whole family and if you order within the next 10 minutes...............
:nuke:

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Bitwit1234

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 09:36 AM
Response to Original message

15. When someone comes in to our clinic reception room and

a person had put on Fox those that cant' reach the TV ask them to please please change the channel. I kid you not. They won't allow it.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

deaniac21

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 09:41 AM
Response to Original message

16. No, just very dramatic.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

lunatica

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 04:06 PM
Response to Reply #16

27. George Orwell was inspired to write 1984 by the Spanish Civil War

and by WW II. Perhaps he would have seen some Totalitarian regimes today and recognized them as what he was writing about. I think Bush's coded language would have been exactly what Orwell was warning against. And FOX News would very familiar to him as the propaganda arm of the Conservative Party and Bush's Presidency

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

political_Dem

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 09:48 AM
Response to Original message

17. No. But then again, I would always carry a diversion so I wouldn't have to look up at the screen.

And if it is in an airport or any large venue, I use noise-canceling head-phones to listen or watch alternative programming.

Blocking out such garbage works wonders--especially to the chagrin of the unenlightened, devoted viewer of such televisual filth.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

HopeHoops

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 10:29 AM
Response to Original message

18. I always ask the management to change the channel to a NEWS station.

They usually do.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

one_voice

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 10:31 AM
Response to Original message

20. I was getting my hair done

and they had Fox on, Glen Beck no less...so I asked them to change it. They did, and I still go to that salon and I've not seen Fox on since then...usually it's CNN. If they hadn't changed it, I would have left and not gone back. I wouldn't have been happy about it since I've been going there since I was 14, but sometimes you have to take a stand.

Now, whenever I'm out if they have Fox on..especially if it's on more than one tv, I ask them to change the channel of the tv closest to me. So far never a problem.

Most of the places I've been that have their tv's on, have them muted with closed caption. But I still ask them to turn it if Fox is on.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

TheMightyFavog

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 10:32 AM
Response to Original message

21. Get you one of these...

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

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Ron Green

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 10:37 AM
Response to Original message

22. A television screen ought not to be turned on in any business,

including a restaurant, bar, hotel lobby, tire shop, hair salon, or any other place except perhaps a store that sells television sets.

This is arguably the most pernicious influence in human life, and to the extent we can turn it off, at home and in public, we'll have a better chance of survival.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

ipfilter

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 10:44 AM
Response to Original message

23. To keep up with the 1984 metaphor.

Fox News is the 24 Hour Hate.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

libodem

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 10:50 AM
Response to Original message

24. I've kicked up

a similar fit over Faux playing at my bank branch. WTF?

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

lonestarnot

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Fri Apr-16-10 11:00 AM
Response to Original message

25. I always make a ruccus if it happens to me!

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

DU AdBot (1000+ posts)

Sat May 11th 2024, 11:28 PM
Response to Original message

Advertisements [?]

Top

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators

Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.