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2005/3/28 [Politics/Domestic/RepublicanMedia] UID:36915 Activity:high
3/28    Block FAUX News: http://tinyurl.com/5av72
        \_ I've got to wonder about freaks who buy this.  It's not enough to
           change the channel?  You're paying for a channel that you then block?
           \_ "The point is not to block the channel or block free
              speech but to raise awareness," said Kimery...
              \_ No no no.  You misunderstand.  I'm not talking about the guy
                 selling the device.  I'm talking about the freaks buying it.
                 \_ Same deal.
                    \_ Whatever freakboy.  Enjoy your reality.
                    \_ I don't want my children exposed to that filth.
                       \_ I really doubt you have children.
                       \_ Why don't you just hide the channel and
                          passwd protect it? Most TVs already have
                          this feature built in w/o having to buy
                          something extra.
        \_ What the hell is this thing? Is it just a pass-through filter
           that blocks the frequency of Fox News Channel? If so, not all
           cable providers put Fox News on the same channel.
              \_ Maybe it just filters out fair and balanced reporting.
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tinyurl.com/5av72 -> seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002220590_foxblocker26.html?syndication=rss
RSS It's not that Sam Kimery objects to the views expressed on Fox News Chann el. The creator of the "Fox Blocker" contends the network is not news at all. Kimery says he has 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. "Apparently the making of terroristic threats against those who don't sha re your views is a high art form among a certain core audience," said Ki mery, 45. 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 everyday members. Kimery now contends Fox News' top-level management dictates a conservativ e journalistic bias, that inaccuracies never are retracted, and what air s is more opinion than news. "I might as well be reading tabloids out of the grocery store," he said. "Anything to get a rise out of the viewer and to reinforce certain retro grade 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 averaged 162 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 chann el, which he acknowledges can be done without the Blocker. But he likens his device to burning a draft card, a tangible example of disagreement. And he's taking this message to the network's advertisers. "The point is not to block the channel or block free speech but to raise awareness," said Kimery, who works in the high-tech industry. he occasionally feels the need to tune int o Fox News for something "especially heinous." Business could pick up since the blocker was alluded to in a recent episo de of the ABC drama "Boston Legal." The show's original script mentioned Fox News, but ABC removed the references. The boisterous conversations on Fox News may be why the station is so pop ular, said Matthew Felling, media director for the Center for Media and Public Affairs, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media watchdog group. And despi te a perception that Fox leans to the right, Felling said, that doesn't mean people who lean left should tune out. "It's tough to engage in an argument when you're not participating in it, " Felling said. "It's just one more layer in the wall that the right and the left are building in between each other."