Gene Honda Civic Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a.../tv_fox_blocker Man Sells Device That Blocks Fox News Fri Mar 25, 7:40 PM ET By EMILY FREDRIX, Associated Press Writer It's not that Sam Kimery objects to the views expressed on Fox News. The creator of the "Fox Blocker" contends the channel is not news at all. Kimery figures he's 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, since its August debut. The Tulsa, Okla., resident also has received thousands of e-mails, both angry and complimentary — as well as a few death threats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sox4lifeinPA Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 This year's winner of the "retarded useless invention award"... um...how about just not pressing "3-4-enter" on your remote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlaSoxxJim Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Mar 26, 2005 -> 04:33 AM) http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a.../tv_fox_blocker Dang, this is the techno geek I needed to find a few years when I was involved with trying to put out a G-Chip as a competitor to the V-Chip, that would have filtered out all relogious programming (100% blocked, so not favoring any one over others). There was decent interect in te idea but an engineer convinced us it couldn' tbe done for the small amount of money we had to invest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowerCaseRepublican Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 Just an FYI before people go after the foaming at the mouth liberal lefties for the creation of this device: From the AP: 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 its everyday members. Kimery now contends Fox News' top-level management dictates a conservative journalistic bias, that inaccuracies are never retracted, and what winds up on the air is more opinion than news. "I might as well be reading tabloids out of the grocery store," he says. "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 been averaging 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightni Posted March 26, 2005 Share Posted March 26, 2005 Most TVs have a security lock program in them. Or, the channel can be taken out of the channel programming if people don't like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sox4lifeinPA Posted March 28, 2005 Share Posted March 28, 2005 But he likens his device to burning a draft card, a tangible example of disagreement. burning a draft card is against the law, however... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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