How common is FOX News on TVs at businesses in your area??

[OmahaBlueDog]

Inspired by this DU Thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024078587

I would appreciate it if you'd give this a moment's thought and respond. Think about your day. You go to gas station/C-stores, train stations, fast food joints, work, the cleaners, the sports bar. You stay at hotels and have breakfast in a breakfast room. How common is it for there to be a TV playing FOX News??

Note: I'm not asking whether you turn around and leave the room; I'm not asking if you boycott these places forevermore; and I'm not asking anyone to apologize for doing business with anyone engaging in this practice.

Note also that FX, FOX Movie Channel, FOX TV network, FOX Business, and any of the FOX Sports franchises DO NOT COUNT for this purpose. However, if you go to sports bar, and they have FOX News playing on one of their 60 TVs -- DO COUNT THAT!

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	I see FOX News playing in very few (10% or less) on TVs in businesses in my area
	3 (21%)
	I see some businesses (10-50%) playing FOX News on TVs
	6 (43%)
	The majority (50-75%) of businesses in my area play FOX news on TVs.
	4 (29%)
	FOX News is omnipresent (75% or more) in businesses in my area
	1 (7%)
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[dimbear]

1. Sorry to be so obvious, but too common. n/t

[OmahaBlueDog]

2. I see it at local fast food joints, local c-stores, and bars

It's also pretty common for me to visit businesses in which there is a TV on in the office playing FOX News 24/7.

I think it's only partly the spreading-the-conservative-gospel syndrome

-HLN hardly shows "news" any more -- opting instead to follow events like the Jodi Arias trial.
-Weather Channel opts to sho lots of "quasi-reality" programming
-Not everyone wants to watch ESPN or Bloomberg

[Saphire]

3. i do housekeeping for a fairly large

building and I'd say 85% of the tvs are on fox. Most of them govt. offices.

[msongs]

4. it is on in ALL the food courts on the local air force base....so much for the CIC nt

[ladywnch]

5. doctors' offices, gyms......

virtually EVERY hotel I've ever stayed at has it on in their lobbies and dinning areas......

It's enough to make you never want to leave the house!

[OmahaBlueDog]

10. Curious..does the gym also play MSNBC or CNN?

I doubt it, but I'm wondering?

[ladywnch]

25. not that I'd ever seen

in mulitple cities and states.....really kind of irratating and depressing

[DrewFlorida]

6. Whenever I see FOX news on in a business establishment, I immediately request a manager.

I will not do business in an establishment that is arrogant enough to force that crap on it's customers and employees. I always say it loud enough for other people to hear, yet not so loud to be rude, in most cases they will change it, in the cases that don't I will never do business with them again.

[OmahaBlueDog]

7. I'm going to start another thread in a day or two on that topic

It's tough. I've done that before. Sometimes it works. Sometimes, what amounts basically to announcing that "I am a liberal" elicits the "don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya" response. In Chicago, LA, or New York, you can always find another gym, bar, McDonalds, etc. In a smaller city -- even a city the size of Omaha, that get's more problematic. And is that the way to go? If a business shows FOX news, and if the owner disagrees with me on issuse of national politics, but that same owner also contributes heavily to programs at our local High School, and has common interests with me on local issues (fixing streets, local zoning issues, etc.) do I want to cut him/her off?

[Bluenorthwest]

14. I see FoxNews on public screens occasionally when I travel and once locally.

My method works in places where families or kids are customers. I walk up to a manager or to the front desk and I say 'Gosh, the news is pretty harsh today considering we have some small children with us, is it possible to put on some cartoons or classic movies or even sports, something where they are not talking about violent crimes and wars and such?'
It's the 'think of the children' gambit, and it works.

[OmahaBlueDog]

17. I like that approach, and it can work well in hotels and restaurants

In gyms and bars -- not so much.

[WCGreen]

15. I request that they turn it off while I am in the joint....

I think a lot of cable designed for business doesn't carry MSNBC and most people don't like CNN so Fox is the defacto.

Forgot that more than half the TV's I have seen in establishments are settling for CNBC with the sound off.

[CFLDem]

8. Heavily Republican area.

Can't say I mind though. I'd rather watch entertainment than news myself.

[SteveG]

9. I live in southern DE

where they actually voted for Christine O'Donnell

[Quantess]

11. Nonexistent!

One of the perks of not living in the USA.

[RiffRandell]

12. GA-Majority. nt

[Greybnk48]

13. 10 years ago I saw it everywhere I went.

In my Drs. clinic, pizza joint, car dealer, etc. Now I seldom see it, and when I do I complain loudly but politely.

[WCGreen]

16. All the doctors that I see have canned medical shows or talk shows...

[gulliver]

18. Lower since it has become a comedy touchstone.

A lot of people didn't realize that Fox News wasn't really news at first. That's changing now that there are so many jokes about it. I see fewer and fewer cases where it is on at businesses. I complain whenever I see it.

The real damage is done in homes though. A lot of relatively good people are on the Fox News brand of news parody crack.

[dipsydoodle]

19. Nil

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[cthulu2016]

20. Is this "of businesses that have news TV on"???

I would say FOX is the majority of news displayed by businesses I see, but most businesses do not have a TV on, or on news

[2naSalit]

21. The only business in my area

that might have any kind of TeeVee on would be a bar and then it depends on which bartender is on duty or who the clientele are at that moment. I go to any bar maybe once every three or more months so... I have one friend who never turns off her TeeVee but she NEVER watches the news unless something big has happened and she wants to see what it was. Come to think of it, one would have to have satellite connection to get those channels anyway.

Now the radio, on FM, we get two stations, well used to. One was a pretty good new and upbeat music station until the Mormons bought it, then it was Flush Limpjunk and Hilarity all day so that became a nonoption the first five minutes after the switch over. The NPR oriented station is also owned by the Mormons and they have church oriented stuff on a good deal of the time. I don't like the slant that NPR has taken lately so I only listen to that station when they have classical or jazz music programming on anymore. Glad I have my cassette player, a large suitcase of tapes and the interwebs.

[oldhippie]

22. I guess I don't get out enough ......

I must not go to the same places you all do. The only place I can think of where I go and they have a TV on is at my doctor's office. I go there twice a year for my checkups and am never in the waiting room more than a few minutes. There is a TV on the wall, but I never pay much attention to it. I maybe noticed a game show once.

I guess I don't go to bars, restaurants, stores, or places that play a TV much. If I do, I must somehow tune out the TV, because I can't remember ever noticing what was playing. I always have my kindle or smartphone, so there is always something else to read. I'm not a big TV watcher.

[LeftyMom]

23. I've only seen a TV at two businesses I frequent.

Both are restaurants, one leaves the TV on the channel run by their religious group, the other alternates between sports and what appear to be soap operas in Chinese. Both usually have the sound off.

The only time I recall being really irritated by omnipresent TV news was at the airport in Atlanta, and those are turned to CNN because it's Atlanta.

edit: I recall that my doctor's office usually has some annoying talk show or other on in the waiting room, but I'm only there once every few years, so who cares?

[Morphia]

24. Fewer places have Fox Propaganda on now days I think due to more people either

speaking out about it being on or people boycotting the business because they put fox on the TV.

I know I have cut all relationships with a few local businesses over the years because of their choice to have Fox on the TV and I will never do business with them again either.

The fastest way to lose my business is to make it known that your are a Republican.

[d_r]

26. ubiquitous

people looking at it too

[LynnTTT]

27. I live in South Carolina

I'm lucky they don't have The Blaze on full time

[doc03]

28. It's not so much the businesses. I belong to a gym that is owned by

a Catholic hospital and many members are fundamentalist Catholics. There are about 10 Tvs around the building and usually several are tuned to Fox by members. Then we have another area where the machines have TVs mounted on them, you can't help but be exposed to Fox when the person on the machine next to you has Fox on, at least they have earphones and you don't have to hear the bullshit. Sometimes I am tempted to just ask some of them (usually 65 plus) if they realize if the Republicans get control they would eliminate SS if they got the chance. It would be a waste though those people have their mind set and aren't open to reason, it would just start a fight.