Device to let you block Fox News on your TV..........

[TC4]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002220590_foxblocker26.html?syndication=rss

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2005/03/25/2002220347.jpg
This device blocks the reception of the Fox News Channel.


Device lets you out-Fox your TV

By Emily Fredrix

The Associated Press

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. The Tulsa, Okla., resident also has received thousands of e-mails, both angry and complimentary, as well as a few death threats since the device debuted in August.

"Apparently the making of terroristic threats against those who don't share your views is a high art form among a certain core audience," said Kimery, 45.

Formerly a registered Republican, even a precinct captain, Kimery became an independent in the 1990s when he said the state party stopped taking input from everyday members.

Kimery now contends Fox News' top-level management dictates a conservative journalistic bias, that inaccuracies never are retracted, and what airs is more opinion than news.

"I might as well be reading tabloids out of the grocery store," he said. "Anything to get a rise out of the viewer and to reinforce certain retrograde notions."

A Fox spokeswoman at the station's New York headquarters said the channel's ratings speak for themselves. For the first three months of this year, Fox has averaged 1.62 million viewers in prime-time, compared with CNN's 805,000, according to Nielsen Media Research.

Kimery's motives go deeper than preventing people from watching the channel, which he acknowledges can be done without the Blocker. But he likens his device to burning a draft card, a tangible example of disagreement.

And he's taking this message to the network's advertisers. After buying the $8.95 device online, would-be blockers are shown a letter that they can send to advertisers via the Fox Blocker site.

"The point is not to block the channel or block free speech but to raise awareness," said Kimery, who works in the high-tech industry.

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

Business could pick up since the blocker was alluded to in a recent episode of the ABC drama "Boston Legal." The show's original script mentioned Fox News, but ABC removed the references.

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."

[Mad Mike]

For those who can't afford the high tech version, Kimery also sells a cheap alternative...

http://zapatopi.net/afdb/afdbhead.jpg

[dfitzo53]

I don't understand why people would pay money for something like this. All they have to do is not watch that channel.

[dreamingwolf]

its a statement man, arent you with it brother. your not one of those facists that wants to suppress the peoples news are you man, cause thats why fox is so bad dude. people dont watch fox cause they want to, they are forced to the signal gets in there head man. without the filter how are people gonna ever turn off their tv to listen to air america man, not with the tv signal gettin in their head.

now get off the internet and go protest something.

[stevenaa]

I already have something just like that which effectively blocks any station I choose. It's called "The Thumb"

[dreamingwolf]

steve but your asking those on the left to excercise personal responsibility, lets be realistic

[RDSKNfaithfull]

This has to be a joke. The silver device is a trap and can block a certain frequency, the problem is fox new is run on a different frequency for every different cable provider:doh:

[Spaceman Spiff]

Haha, I'd get a few, plug them in the backs of the tvs in the house and then watch my dad go bezerk as he tried to figure out what happened to his precious fox news. High comedy, no doubt.

[dfitzo53]

Originally posted by dreamingwolf
its a statement man, arent you with it brother. your not one of those facists that wants to suppress the peoples news are you man, cause thats why fox is so bad dude. people dont watch fox cause they want to, they are forced to the signal gets in there head man. without the filter how are people gonna ever turn off their tv to listen to air america man, not with the tv signal gettin in their head.

now get off the internet and go protest something. :laugh:

[Thiebear]

Its more of an attempt to get you to fill out the form and have it sent to sponsors..
That whole Freedom of Speech thing only works when you FOR something.. it sucks when someone says something you don't like.

[Dallsux]

Originally posted by dreamingwolf
steve but your asking those on the left to excercise personal responsibility, lets be realistic


:rotflmao:

Oh sh*t, that's funny. True, but funny. :laugh: :notworthy

[Fred Jones]

This is actually a Republican mind control device. It allows everyone that is not a Republican the freedom to choose what they want to watch in a fair and balanced way.

[Doozinbrah]

Originally posted by Fred Jones
This is actually a Republican mind control device. It allows everyone that is not a Republican the freedom to choose what they want to watch in a fair and balanced way.


Uh yeah ok .........

[TC4]

This is just another example of how the left doesn't believe in any censorship, unless it is someone censoring the right

[Larry]

Does he offer one to block Cowboys games? (Except for two).

[NoCalMike]

Originally posted by TC4
This is just another example of how the left doesn't believe in any censorship, unless it is someone censoring the right

Umm did you read the article, he isn't a member of the left. How, "Fox News" of you.....:doh:

[Thiebear]

Originally posted by NoCalMike


Umm did you read the article, he isn't a member of the left. How, "Fox News" of you.....:doh:

How do you know he's not a member of the left? It appears that way to me the way he is talking.

1. He recommends YOU use it even though he said he doesnt.
2. Anyone that uses disagreement and Burning your draft card as Similies is leaning that way.
3. He wants to block Fox News because he doesnt like it. But, gets upset with the replies he (any sane person) should have known is coming.
4. He feels the need to SELL you something that you don't need at a price he feels you cant resist, to stop something you don't watch.

[skinsfan44]

I would buy one if it blocked out CNN. :laugh:

Oh heck, I already have one, it's called a remote control.

[Joe Sick]

Originally posted by Thiebear


How do you know he's not a member of the left? It appears that way to me the way he is talking.


From the article:

Formerly a registered Republican, even a precinct captain, Kimery became an independent in the 1990s when he said the state party stopped taking input from everyday members.

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I don't understand the need for it. I like Fox News almost as much as Comedy Central. Both have been great sources of laughter for me.

However, people making death threats because he made this device? These are the real kool-aid drinkers.

[roqnap1]

I find it funny that one person comes up with an anti-conservative device and suddenly he, according to many here, represents the entire left.

I am proud to be a liberal. I take issue with Fox News, but only because of their "Fair and Balanced" claim. I don't think it should be censored at all.

People will never share the exact same views for every issue we will ever face. That's life. Both sides should have their outlet.

Believe what you want to believe...but do some of your own research. Believing everything that is fed to you will just leave you misinformed. Both parties are guilty of this.

[The Evil Genius]

TC4 and anyone else thinking the same,


How exactly is this censorship?

[Destino]

There is a sucker born every minute....but most of them are too smart to buy this idiots invention.

[SnyderShrugged]

Originally posted by T.E.G.
TC4 and anyone else thinking the same,


How exactly is this censorship?



It's only censorship if it is placed on public televisions(airports, schools, etc) yet still allows the other networks while not allowing another. (IMHO)

[Bang]

It's not censorship at all if you have to purchase it. If states purchased it with state funds to be placed on state owned TVs, then it would be censorship.
Even if a bar owner bought one and installed it on his bar TV it's his right to do so, but i would hope that folks would realize that the only way to try to get anything resembling the 'fair and balanced' ideal is to try to see every issue from every angle, even if the angle makes you want to puke. It's the best we can do these days, since our outlets for news are so corrupted by the dollar. (CNN is just as bad in it's pursuit of the left as Fox is in it's pursuit of the right, and both of them are simply using that in pursuit of ratings for advertising dollars.)
Turning a blind eye is never a good idea.

Besides, people have been selling snake oil ever since they started milking snakes for their precious medicinal oils back in the late 1300s.

Why, one time I bought this device that said it would transport me anywhere I wanted to go across this country and would do so for a terrific price. It was called a "Pontiac Sunbird", and it did transport me, provided i pay the terrific price for all the damn repairs it constantly needed.

~Bang

[MaddogCT]

Posted by Thiebear:
How do you know he's not a member of the left? It appears that way to me the way he is talking.

1. He recommends YOU use it even though he said he doesn't.

Conservatives do that all the time!!! i.e.. Limbaugh and
Vicoden. (although in Limbaugh case it would be you don't
and I do.)

2. Anyone that uses disagreement and Burning your draft card
as Similies is leaning that way.

Really, since when is everyone who was against the
Vietnam war a liberal?

3. He wants to block Fox News because he doesn't like it. But,
gets upset with the replies he (any sane person) should have
known is coming.

I think its pretty safe to say conservatives would be upset
with death threats too.

4. He feels the need to SELL you something that you don't need
at a price he feels you cant resist, to stop something you don't
watch.

No, that's conservative's utopia! Since when is being an entrepreneur leftist idea? It's the conservatives who always are talking about money and keeping money and taxes etc....

As for censorship, if conservatives can defend those people who edit those "Hollywood" movies, for a fee, because they don't like the content, (ie swearing nudity and violence and Harry Potter)then this guy should be able to sell his "Fox Blocker"

edit:
my responces were originally in lime green. What was I thinken'? :doh:


:logo:

[dreamingwolf]

really maddogct its awfully selfish of you to not cure world hunger and all diseases.

[Thiebear]

MaddogCT
"I owe you 15 minutes"... let me know when you want it back.. Mine was meant more in jest than anything. ;)

[MaddogCT]

Only 15? I figure with inflation and the growth of digital television, plus the internet, I should [Jennifer] garner at least 17.
;)
:cheers:
:logo:

[KingGibbs]

Originally posted by Mad Mike
For those who can't afford the high tech version, Kimery also sells a cheap alternative...

http://zapatopi.net/afdb/afdbhead.jpg

:laugh:

[Skins4SB]

I wish they made one to block the horrible announcing we get in some of our games..:doh: