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Which barely puts you in the majority. If Fox says it, it must be true. I go to lots of eateries in my job as a truck driver and Fox is always on and often as not the channel cannot be changed. My daughter's doctor's waiting room has Fox on two TVs. Anyway, this topic is not about Fox and the amazing propaganda machine it is.

My wife and I of the age when we spend more time in either doctor or hospital waiting rooms than anyone in their right mind would prefer. We've also noticed the predominance of the Fox channel and have asked it be changed to CNN or something less political.

Our local internist's office now carries CNN and USC Keck Hospital waiting rooms now carry the Food Channel as their default channel. Be careful what you ask for!

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I was at the doctor's last week. I don't know what station it was, but they were showing a segment on cooking ramen noodles. Could have been worse--sometimes they show one of the local hospital's homemade productions.

Ah... remembering the pediatrician waiting rooms, all showing some sort of vapid little children's Cartoons. And we parents sitting their with our whiny children, glassy-eyed..

We end up with Fox on now and then in my own patients' waiting room. While I do have one coworker who's completely brainwashed by Fox, Limbaugh and crew, I'd say most of the time it's just selected at random by people who aren't watching it. Should not be part of the package, but oh well...
Try explaining what it is to people who don't care one iota about anything remotely political.

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Around here it's pretty much CNN or some kind of pre packaged health network.

I wish they would make separate "viewing" and "no viewing" waiting rooms.

Why anyone needs to be continually entertained is beyond me.

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I find that the volume is never on regardless of what channel it is. I honestly think that FOX is often chosen because they put so much up on the screen that you don't need to hear what is being said.

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evil rich republican doctors have conspired to raise your blood pressure because they swim in diuretics profits at the end of the week

you really should stop supporting doctors
send your insurance and co-pay money to Obama instead

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On topic, I noticed some of the Fox reporters roaming the Democratic Convention had the Fox logo box removed from their microphones. I haven't heard why they did that. Maybe death threats from little old ladies from New York? Or they were tired of people holding up palm tree signs in camera background?

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In airports and hotels throughout the south it's all Fox, all the time. (I would think Atlanta would give the nod to their hometown team, CNN.)
But elsewhere, it's Fox.
When I stay in hotels in that part of the country sometimes the only news offering on the room TV is Fox, and last time I was in the Charlotte airport, for example, Fox was on every TV. Wonder if they made a switch for the DNC?

Fox is bad, but at the hematologist the other day, with my husband, I was subjected to Kathy Lee and Hoda and I wanted to run out screaming. This was the same day we got hit later while stopped at the traffic light. I should have realized it was foreshadowing.

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It's on everywhere here in Arkansas and everyone's house I go to. The people watch it all day long. So, not only is the content bad, but when you hear it 7 or 8 times a day, you are pretty much brainwashed.



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evil rich republican doctors have conspired to raise your blood pressure because they swim in diuretics profits at the end of the week

You might think that so but my various doctors all support Obama. It's irritating when the volume is on since I always have a book with me when headed for a waiting area. Certain book titles will start conversations with other patients, staff and docs. The Rachael Maddow book cover often revealed political leanings, the title that invariably brought forth a comment or question was Area 51.

Whenever I find an unattended TV left on Fox Noise, I always change it to MSNBC!

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Whenever I find an unattended TV left on Fox Noise, I always change it to MSNBC!

I go with CNN because it is midway between the two.

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