Conservatives crying about DISH network Fox News dispute.

[Burf-_-]

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Source: Facebook

"Fox removed your access to Fox News and Fox Business. We are actively working to reach a fair and reasonable agreement with Fox. Visit www.DISHStandsForYou.com for more information."


Read more: https://www.facebook.com/DISH

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So much anger over what will probably be a temporary loss of their favorite daily right-wing propaganda. Take a look at comments so far on Facebook. LOL !!

[Sanity Claws]

1. They don't like the free market?

Surprise, surprise, surprise.

[djean111]

2. That's Capitalism, babies.

[riversedge]

35. good reply

[djean111]

36. Thanks. That's also my reply to whiny-assed power and nuke corporations who

are crying into their champagne over profits lost to solar and wind power. They don't like Capitalism when it slams THEM upside the head.

[bvf]

41. Perfect answer!

Going without Fox for awhile (I'm sure they'll find a way back in), must be like heroin withdrawal to some of these sods.

[Kelvin Mace]

3. Is Facebook considered a "news" source?

for LBN?

[Blue_Adept]

15. Well, it's the official DISH page

And many companies do their PR directly through FB. So it's a pretty valid source for the information at hand.

[Kelvin Mace]

40. A companiy press release is a reliable news source?

Just asking.

[PeoViejo]

4. Faux News should pay to catapult their Propaganda.

If Dolts want to watch that Mental Masturbation, they can pay by subscription.

[maddiemom]

42. Which is why so far Fox claims the "highest rated 'news' network" honors. They

They're on basic cable; it costs extra for the others.

[onenote]

43. Fox News and CNN are both most commonly carried on "expanded basic"

Rarely carried on "basic" the lowest priced tier unless the system doesn't have a lower priced "lifeline" or "broadcast" basic.

[maddiemom]

47. Haven't had cable for some years (there are some great ways to work around

it with the internet these days, not to mention dish options), BUT, five or six years ago Fox was part of the basic Comcast package, and its prevalence is still blaring from many public TVs and has led me to assume that bars, banks (Palin intruded the last time I had bank paperwork) are not paying extra for Fox. Why would they?

[onenote]

48. Bars, gyms, etc. pay for expanded basic to get ESPN, CNN, FOX News, other popular channels

Comcast in DC offers a fairly robust "limited basic tier" that includes MSNBC and CNBC (probably because Comcast owns them), but you have to move up to the next level to get CNN, Fox News, ESPN and dozens of other channels.

In most cable systems, more than 85 percent of subscribers take the expanded tier. In fact, its hard to find out that there is a lower priced "broadcast" or "limited" basic on a lot of cable systems since they don't heavily promote it.

[packman]

5. But, but, but

how will all those Fox viewers get their opinions now? What other stations are as "Fair and Balanced"? The little light has gone from their lives now they may have to think.

[Burf-_-]

10. oh brother....

What nearly all of these people don't get when this kind of thing happens between a Satellite provider, and a Network is that the Sat provider is the middle man who occasionally has to renegotiate deals to carry any certain network for a contracted amount of time. So it is very likely that NEWS INC wants more money from DISH than they are willing to pay right now. These dimwits on the facebook comments are all threatening to switch to the other provider which also has contract disputes with different networks from time to time.

[meow2u3]

6. Boo freakin' hoo!

My nose--and my hemorrhoids--bleed for RWNJs who can't get their fix of RW propaganda.

[onecaliberal]

7. Now that is funny...

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

8. Morons!

[yuiyoshida]

9. They are Addicted to Fox like

a drug addict is addicted. Its good Fox was removed, now after having the shakes and the cobwebs gone, from their brains, maybe they will become Fox-Free.

[Burf-_-]

11. meh it won't last....but lol anway

It all depends on what $$$ amount FOX and DISH settle on, then they'll be back. Until then it's hilarious to look at the comments.

[Just for Fun]

37. Dish better refuse every Faux offer until they agree to the following:

1) Make Faux News/Faux Business News PPV only channel. Yes, the morons will have to actually pay to get their propaganda. Charge them $100/month - like Playboy Channel or something. Both Dish and DirecTV could benefit from these and lower rates for those who do not subscribe to Faux.

2) Make Faux pay $1 million PER day not to switch to a very obscure channel to be changed daily, not their usual channel.

3) In exchange, Dish has the right to shut them off if they do not shape up their propaganda and follow the 50/50 balance, if they want to be called "Fair and Balanced".

4) Ban Hannity - forever.

[mikeysnot]

12. 24 hour hate.

Oh nooooo! The fox minions will not get their 2 minute hate session in for the day!

hate,hate, hate.... anger anger anger!

[Cirque du So-What]

13. Sometimes the invisible hand of the free market

slaps you upside the jowls. Suck it up, Buttercup!

[cascadiance]

14. Hope they PO Dish Network off so that Dish takes off Beck's The Blaze channel too!

I would celebrate removing that content too!

[Burf-_-]

23. LULZ

I hope it takes MONTHS for this contract dispute to end . ... hehe

[Just for Fun]

39. Make that YEARS

Dish has effectively banned Faux, and DirecTV should follow too and follow my advice above.

[Just for Fun]

38. Or raise the Blaze channel to $100/month

ala Playboy Channel.

[muntrv]

16. Oh poor baby!

[brewens]

17. I hadn't noticed FOX "News" was gone for some reason. :) So DISH wants Murdock to pay more? n/t

[onenote]

44. No. Murdoch wants Dish to pay more

Dish pays networks for the right to carry their programming, not the other way around. Same thing for the other multichannel video programming distributors (i.e., e.g. Verizon FioS, traditional cable, DirecTV)

[brewens]

45. My way makes more sense. :) n/t

[Thor_MN]

18. OMG!!! What will hey do when they don't have Faux to tell them what to think?

How can they possibly survive?

[City Lights]

19. Suck on your hypocrisy, whiners!

[L0oniX]

20. Fox is their Landrew. "Are you of the body?"

[SoapBox]

21. Best holiday gift, ever!

Thank you Dish.

[Dawson Leery]

22. The free market at work.

[Historic NY]

24. Looks like they're in FOX News withdrawal over there...

on the FB page....

[rurallib]

25. They really need to take Fakes News out of the basic package

and move it to tier 3 or 4 - make those free market freaks pay through the nose for it.

[billhicks76]

26. I Hope They Rot In Hell

Especially fake psychiatrist Ablow. I hope God strikes them all down.

[Mr.Bill]

27. I take particular delight

in the ones calling it censorship when it's really just a business deal.

[C Moon]

28. Holy hell! They sound like addicts who need a fix.

Without their hourly brainwashing, they don't know how to react to life.

[PSPS]

29. This doesn't belong in LBN.

[SoapBox]

31. Sorry that I have to say...

If it was not posted here, I never would have seen it.

I rarely go beyond the front page of DU...I'm happy it was put in LBN, rather than hidden away some place else on the site.

Sometimes "rules" are made to be broken...thank you for the OP Burf-_-.

[rpannier]

30. It's my understanding they replaced it with Blaze

They now get Fox Reich Crazy
They should be thrilled

[sakabatou]

32. Of course they would

[War Horse]

33. Reading the comments is like a glimpse into the Id

of Fox News viewers.

"My TV is on Fox 24/7."

"Greed sucks! Give me Fox back!"

[allan01]

34. sooooo long

[Roy Rolling]

46. Attention Atheists

To my atheist DU friends, when Fox is pulled from the lineup you gotta believe there is a God.

[AwakeAtLast]

49. Their brains might explode from the regeneration of their brain cells

Hope they have a good cleanup service.

[Demsrule86]

50. I am about to cut the cord

I have direct TV which is great but with two kids in college and retirement looming I simple don't want to pay 2000 a year for TV...we already reduced it to two tv's ...living room and disabled sis's room...but I have found some great alternatives which will be less than 40 a month...so bye...you just cost too much.