Turn Off Fox
by digby
I don’t know about you, but I see FoxNews on in businesses all the time, just droning out its propaganda to people who don’t even know what they are listening to. Color of Change is sponsoring an action called TurnOffFox which I think is very interesting.
We don’t have to let Fox’s attempts to stoke fear and hate shape our country’s politics and culture. It’s easy to turn off Fox News in our own homes — but when TVs in public places are tuned to Fox, that also spreads fear, division, and misinformation. Turn Off Fox is about ordinary people and small businesses working together to reduce Fox’s influence in their own communities and across the country.
By organizing businesses and other public places to stop playing Fox News— the cable news network, not local affiliates — we will reduce Fox’s ability to poison our political conversations and divide our country. And we will send a powerful message: that this country will support media that informs us, sheds light on the problems we face, and inspires us to solve them together — not deceptive propaganda that plays on fear and paranoia, spreads confusion and falsehoods, exploits our divisions, and pits us against each other.
They provide step-by-step instructions and materials to make your case and have created a reporting mechanism for feedback.
I like this because if enough people do it, it might over time make FOX something that more people feel uncomfortable with. Sure, there are always going to be ideologues who will defiantly put it on no matter what. But there are far more business people in this country who love their customers more than they love Glenn Beck.
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