I found this link when hopping around on http://www.hoffmania.com/blog/. I danced with actual glee!
It’s a filter for your cable line that will block Fox News from your TV:
FOXBlocker is an innovative new product that filters out the FOX News network. Simply screw the filter into the back of your TV and never be exposed to right wing propaganda again (at least through FOX News).
In addition to blocking all that pesky biased news, the folks at FOXBlocker will email Fox advertisers to tell them that you’ve stopped watching. I would add a “nyah nyah nyah boo boo” email to Fox itself.
With every order placed, FOXBlocker.com will send an e-mail in your name to the TOP 10 advertisers at FOX News letting them know that yet another subscriber has opted out of FOX News. With a little luck and a lot of volume, we can shut the FOX up!
This is just awesome.
Funny. But I don’t think many people will PAY not to be able to watch Fox, even if they don’t want to. So did you order one?
I don’t even get cable and I want to order one.
What ingolfson said, but with some embellishment. Here is the business question. Are there enough people who really want to protest FNS and who find paying someone else about $10 to do it for them a good trade for their own time? I suspect that FoxBlocker is on the wrong side of the odds on this throw of the dice.
Tempting to get one and surreptitiously install it in the cable feed to some TV in a public place that usually stays set on FOX. (Then sit back and watch the fun!)
Well, I don’t watch TV (and we don’t get Fox here in Japan anyway) but I just like the idea that they made it in the first place. Sure I can skip it with my remote, but that doesn’t make the same statement as “I actually paid money to screw you Fox jerks”. And $10 ain’t so much. It’s a good gift anyway.
Plus, if you have kids who like to watch cartoons on Fox, this is an easy way to enforce a boycott in your house. For channel surfers, it decreases the risk you might accidentally click to Fox.
And there’s the added fun that DOF described, though the folks at FOXBlocker would never openly advocate that sort of thing
Shana, I actually went the whole hog. I threw away my TV (three years ago). And we don’t even GET Fox here in Europe, as far as I know.
Now if I could just get the GEZ to stop bugging me (sorta like the IRS, but worse, and they collect mandatory fees for the public TV programs).
That’s ridiculous. We have a similar monopoly here in Japan, called NHK, and they send people to your house to pick up exhorbitant fees for watching their single channel. They are always puzzled when the foreigners refuse to pay; the channel is entirely in Japanese and none of us ever watch it. Yar!
Funny, we have someone who I assume is an american living abroad, who doesnt even watch Fox trying to convince us here at home (USA) to block out Fox. Very amusing
Last I checked but wasn’t Foxnews leading by large margins in the ratings?
Must be all those stupid people living in Red states.
Once again, very amusing. Please stay in Japan.
I believe it is true that FoxNews leads when compared to the other cable news channels, but lags ABC, NBC and CBS.
Stupid red state residents – no. Uniformed and/or incurious, that’s another matter.
VernR, I guess it would be safe to assume that you have some statistics to back this up? :0
Found this article on Fair.org and thought it might shine some light on the ratings war. For convenience, I’m quoting the whole article..
In the interest of fair disclose, and so no one discounts this information as biased, I am a conservative atheist, I tend to watch Fox over CNN (although I cringe whenever the topic turn to religion) and I tend to vote republican even though I’m a member of the Libertarian Party.
Typical Faux News watcher…
Oops, not you KPat
I can’t tell if that’s a good or bad amusing, Ken. At any rate, I am indeed an American living abroad, but I haven’t always lived here. Fox News’ coverage of the Sept 11 attacks was the last straw for me watching television, esp. televised news.
LOL! Don’t worry, Spocko, I recognize that I’m not a typical Fox viewer. I’m atheist, Pro Choice and pro gay marriage just off the top and I think less than one per cent of their audience can say that.
I do think that all news stations and networks are extremely biased in one direction or the other and I like that Fox is so out front about their bias as compared to others. It makes it easy to tell when they’re full of shit.
It would indeed be a safe assumption.
Well, I was amused that someone like yourself would actually think that a product like this could possibly do anything to damage Foxnews. Also that there a people who would waste there money.
Tell ya what, pull out the manual for your TV or cable box, there is a way to block any channels you don’t wish to view. I just saved you $8.95.
That is unless you feel the need to tell Foxnews “nyah nyah nyah boo boo
That’s not always true, Ken. I’ll just have to assume you have better local newscasts than we do.
As much as I’m no fan of FOX News, I do think this product is pretty silly. Ironically the local FOX affiliate has a decent morning newscast so I do watch that at least. Probably helps that it used to be the local CBS affiliate.
Poor choice of words on my part. I shouldn’t have said “only”. I’m sure that I had experienced times like the one you posted and immediately changed the local news channel.
What I should have said was that I just find the local news easier to stomach than watching the likes of CNN, Foxnews, Dan Rather and the rest.
I’m certainly in agreement with you on that aspect at least.
Why do you vote GOP then? Just to be different?
I mean…
Ah well, none of my business. But curious nontheless.
Mostly it’s a matter of money. The republicans usually spend less money. (Notice I said usually. I have a big problem with the was the current administration spends money.) I prefer smaller federal government in every possible respect and would rather see the vast majority of social spending done by local and state governments. I also tend to be hawkish on matters of foreign policy.
ingolfson, you can get Fox News in Britain at least. It’s on Sky around channel 500 I think. I don’t watch it, I don’t need a box to help me, but it’s there if you want to.