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W T F Donating Member (400 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-05-09 02:55 AM
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It's time to take the gloves off with Fox News!
I don't know about the rest of you, but if you're on Dish network. you get Fox on basic cable and then if you want to get MSNBC, you have to up grade to a premium package.

I may be wrong, but Fox News is on a "must carry" list for basic cable under the communications act of 1994 and cable providers must pay Fox .60 cents for every subscriber. So, if you get Fox, you’re paying Rupert Murdock to receive his propaganda

I just sent this complaint to the FCC and I think we all should.

http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm


Dear Sir or madam, I am writing to complain about the racial, white supremacist propaganda that Fox News pumps into my living room and my satellite company forces me to pay for, in order to get basic cable. I find the racial hate spewed out by Glenn Beck obscene and disgusting and I do not want my children subjected to it. I know that I don't have to watch it, but I don't see why I have to be forced pay to have someone's white supremacist views broadcasted.
I would ask that you take Fox News off "must carry" for basic cable. I don't want to pay for it. And I don't want Rupert Murdock getting his greedy hand on my money.

Thank you for your attention.

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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-05-09 02:58 AM
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1. I'll join you.....
Something has to be done before something terrible happens. They are dangerous. Kind of like having a KKK channel.
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-05-09 03:54 AM
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2. Its easy, stop subscribing to the cable or Satellite that carrys fox
Dish has something called a welcome package which gives you MSNBC, locals, comedy central, and a few others, but not fox or cnn

They don't advertise it, you need to ask for it

Premiums content you can get from netflix or blockbuster



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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-05-09 04:09 AM
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3. On Uverse the family pack also does not contain fox /nt
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-05-09 04:11 AM
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4. The past tense of broadcast is "broadcast."
I protest the assimilation of irregular verbs.
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W T F Donating Member (400 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-05-09 09:57 AM
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5. Sorry, my bad. But it's too late to do any ediffying, heh... heh.
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gopiscrap Donating Member (418 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-05-09 11:39 AM
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6. Good Idea
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harvey007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-06-09 04:04 PM
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7. Fox is obscene and indecent
Yes, complain to the FTC!

Get those dirty, filthy, lying Fox News sluts off the air!


http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/obscene.html
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-12-09 09:30 AM
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samsingh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-20-09 04:48 PM
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9. yes- fox needs to be called out for every lie and unAmerican thing they do
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samsingh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-20-09 04:48 PM
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10. yes- fox needs to be called out for every lie and unAmerican thing they do
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humblhumn Donating Member (27 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-23-09 01:34 PM
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11. Maybe
Glenn Beck will finally take them under. I know... wishful thinking
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