Filter to block Fox News

[RandFan]

Device lets you out-Fox your TV

It's not that Sam Kimery objects to the views expressed on Fox News Channel. The creator of the "Fox Blocker" contends the network is not news at all.

Kimery says he has sold about 100 of the little silver bits of metal that screw into the back of most televisions, allowing people to filter Fox News from their sets.

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Kimery doesn't use the device; he occasionally feels the need to tune into Fox News for something "especially heinous."

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The boisterous conversations on Fox News may be why the station is so popular, said Matthew Felling, media director for the Center for Media and Public Affairs, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media watchdog group. And despite a perception that Fox leans to the right, Felling said, that doesn't mean people who lean left should tune out.

"It's tough to engage in an argument when you're not participating in it," Felling said. "It's just one more layer in the wall that the right and the left are building in between each other."

 

[KelvinG]

Uh, don't most TVs nowadays allow you to program out stations you don't want to watch, so that when you are channelling surfing you won't ever see them.
Plus, if you really are offended by a station, how hard is it to just not watch it.

I suppose this Fox blocker device is more to make a statement than to be practical

 

[Rob Lister]

Uh, don't most TVs nowadays allow you to program out stations you don't want to watch, so that when you are channelling surfing you won't ever see them.
Plus, if you really are offended by a station, how hard is it to just not watch it.

I suppose this Fox blocker device is more to make a statement than to be practical

Assuming this guy really is selling these narrow-band filters, more power to him. I'm not sure which requires more intellengence: to use the channel-setup feature on your tv or cable box or to dig behind the tv and plug in a filter between your cable outlet and your tv. I do know which one is cheaper.

I'm willing to bet he hasn't sold squat. I'm almost willing to bet he hasn't even made one, much less the hundred he claims to have sold...

Unless he works at a major ivy-league school. Then all bets are off.

 

[RandFan]

Assuming this guy really is selling these narrow-band filters, more power to him. I'm not sure which requires more intellengence: to use the channel-setup feature on your tv or cable box or to dig behind the tv and plug in a filter between your cable outlet and your tv. I do know which one is cheaper.

How about changing the channel?

 

[Skeptic]

How about changing the channel?

I can see the point of blocking porn channels or the equivalent instead of telling people to "just change the channel", since underage kids would want to watch "The Playboy Channel" if they could get away with it.

But... can you honestly imagine this situation?

--"MARY! We have to talk! I caught junior watching 'The O'Reilly Factor' again!"

--"OHMYGOD!!! ... He said he was only going to listen to 'Air America' When we're away! What shall we DO??? He'll be listening to Rush Limbaugh, next!"

... I dunno... doesn't sound like too much of a problem...

 

[Suddenly]

How about changing the channel?

I've been meaning to block it out. My step-father in law tends to turn it on, and it sort of makes me want to beat him to death, so diplomacy and all that...

An ounce of prevention....