On the rare occasion that I stop into the local McDonald's, I've noticed that Fox News is ALWAYS on one of the two large flat-screen TV's. The other has ESPN or some other sports channel. I asked a manager why one only had Fox News all the time, and she said they were told they had to leave it on that station at all times and were unable to change the channel. When I asked if customers had requested it, she said no, "Nobody likes Fox, we get a lot of complaints about it."
I thought to myself, I don't work there, so maybe I could change it. But fiddling with the channel buttons had no effect. That single channel was hard-wired into the set; like Big Brother on the telescreen in "1984," it is impossible to watch anything else. When I asked if it was a corporate mandate to have the TV on Fox News, the manager nodded yes. Apparently they were free to switch between various sports networks on the other set, depending on what sporting events were currently happening, but the Fox News TV was permanently set to only that station.
"Nobody likes Fox," she had said, but yet that's the only choice McDonald's was giving us, whether we liked it or not. I emailed the company, saying, "Apparently McDonalds Corp has decided that, instead of giving customers what they want, it is more important to force-feed them right-wing propaganda disguised as 'news.' I don't think I'll be going back."
So next time you walk by a McDonald's, peek inside long enough to see if Faux News is on their telescreen. If so, say something about it.