Entertainment | September 24, 2010 | 2 comments

1 Million Strong to Turn Off FOX: Stop FOX's lies from being spread and legitimized on public TVs.

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It's happened to all of us. You're in a public place and FOX News is on TV. You sit and simmer, or pack up and move on. You can't bear the idea that the lies, distortions and race-baiting that FOX News uses to divide our country are being promoted as mainstream news.

FOX is poisonous — and it spreads and is legitimized partly through public TVs. It's why CREDO is joining with Color of Change to launch Turn Off FOX — a massive campaign to get FOX turned off in stores, restaurants, and other public places.

Will you join us in calling on businesses in your community and across the country to stop airing FOX, and declare your own household a "FOX-free zone"? With thousands of our signatures to back them up, Turn Off FOX members will visit local businesses that play FOX, explain how divisive and dangerous it is, and ask them to turn it off.

Please take a moment to add your voice — you'll get a FREE "Turn Off FOX" sticker, and we'll tell you how to get more involved.
Some people watch Fox at home because it reflects their view of the world; but there are others who see it on TV in public places and assume that it's legitimate news. FOX News is often on in bars, restaurants, airport lounges, stores — appearing to be real news, while spreading lies, hate, division and promoting the political agenda that was confirmed with FOX parent company News Corporation's $1 million contribution to elect Republican governors.

The goal of Turn Off FOX is to reduce the number of public TVs showing FOX News, while spreading the word about FOX's poison (and how it works) to those who don't know.

Signing up for the campaign is just the first step. We make it easy for you to tell us about businesses playing FOX. If you're willing to talk with them, we'll provide you with straightforward materials that explain why they shouldn't be a party to what FOX is doing. And if there are businesses you know that want to tell the world they would never play FOX, you can help them declare themselves a "FOX-free zone."

As businesses Turn off FOX and stand up as FOX Free, and as we encourage our friends and family to do the same, we'll help make clear, to people across the country, what FOX is about. And we'll reduce their ability to do harm.
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2 comments // 1 Million Strong to Turn Off FOX: Stop FOX's lies from being spread and legitimized on public TVs.

  • Ian_Judge_Lord
  • AsiaSuperLoop
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      AsiaSuperLoop  

    • Is turning OFF Fox the way to go? Isn't that ideologically inconsistent with a belief in a categorical right to free speech? What's needed is a persuasive and engaging counter-message.

      For instance, let's make an economic argument. I believe, by way of example, that race-baiting and the culture of bias in American economic life are closing off the only true course to economic recovery.

      America contains within itself a collection of potential emerging economies. Emerging Asia, Africa, Latin American and Eastern Europe. We have these communiities here. Just look downtown, or across town, or in the next suburb over. Untapped resources and potential increases in productivity are scattered everywhere.

      Attacking a negative with a negative only leads to a positive in second grade arithmetic. In real life, the positive only comes from the positive. In this case, a positive counter-message.

      In fact, as I write this, I am myself increasingly persuaded. I guess it could be more than rhetoric.

    • 2 years ago
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