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(42,700 posts)Fox News is included in your package. No one makes you watch it. No one prevents you from using the blocking features that are common on virtually all televisions made for the past 10 -15 years and on cable boxes to avoid even "surfing" past Fox News.
You no more have to "watch" Fox News than you have to "read" George Will if your newspaper happens to run his column. Yet, I don't see you or anyone else demanding that they be given the opportunity to purchase a copy of the newspaper (or view a version online) that doesn't include George Will's column.
As for your assertion that TV is not a newspaper, that's true. Its also not a refrigerator or a cloud or hatbox. But the fact is that just as one watches only one channel at a time (a point that further rebuts your claim that having Fox News on your package makes you watch it) you also only read one story or column at a time. And if you want to turn the page without reading a story you can. Just as you can change the channel without watching.