A former Republican precinct man has created a device that screws into the back of TV sets to block Fox News.
Man Sells Device That Blocks 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.
Death threats for making a TV device? It doesn't surprise me, considering the wingnuts who put a bounty on Michael Schiavo's head.
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.
Check out Fox's response:
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.
The channel's ratings speak for themselves? Straight from the horses mouth that ratings trump journalism. American Idol gets high ratings too, maybe Fox should just run repeats of the show after Hannity and Colmes.
Since Fox likes to bring up statistics from Nielsen Media Research, lets not forget the polling that concluded viewers of "The Daily Show" are much more educated than viewers of "The O'Reilly Factor."
Freep this link: Yahoo! News Fox Blocker