https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-10-2021
All the kings horses and all the kings men.. won't be able to put Dumpty back together again.
Just found about this website and sent a message to my cable provider to
https://unfoxmycablebox.com/ .
Faux news gets a monthly stipend from cable subscribers each month. I have it blocked but they need to go.
@lenor Great idea. I am on it...
Okay, I checked in a Verizon Fios forum where many people were asking how they could stop having to pay for Fox News, and Fios responded that they would not do it for them because they claimed that people from both sides (pro and con Fox) had tried to unfund the news they didn't like. If anyone has any ideas, let us know.
Perhaps there is better success with other outlets.
Another solution is to longer support the sponsors who sponsor Fox News and their special programs like Hannity, Tucker Carlson, and that Jeanine woman whose name I always have to look up because she's so abusive and hateful her name so forgettable. I know, Pirro as in pyromaniac or Pyrrhic victory. There was a campaign to stop using Home Depot after the voter anti-voter laws were passed. I looked up Lowes and they also are big Republican donors.
Someone here could start a thread to show us who the current sponsors of various horrific talk show hosts and politicians and PACs that sponsor anti voter rights, the NRA, and other anti-progressive causes.
After twenty years of blocking a massive wind farm off Cape Cod thanks to the fossil fuel industry and Ted Kennedy (Cape Wind), the Administration under Biden has now approved a massive wind farm off Martha's Vineyard called Vineyard Wind.
When I think about the damage done to our world by those who blocked Cape Wind and so many other sustainability projects, I realize we were still in the Great Unraveling back then.
We had to fall apart enough to make more people turn towards progressive action.
But now the wheel of the Great Turning is starting to turn in earnest and it is gradually overtaking the negative systems that caused so much damage.
We still have a ways to go before we are going to see that Great Turning wheel really cranking it out. But Biden is going as fast as he can right now.
I know that many progressive oppose Vineyard Wind because of harm to fishing, migratory birds, whale migration and other sea life. But I believe it is a net gain. We must get moving with wind energy which I see as our biggest hope right now, in addition to tree planting. Keep in mind that climate warming is causing winds to increase such that they've had to revamp the wind turbine industry to allow for greater turbine size and thus greater energy output.
I am always open to correction from those who are experts in this business.
@lenor Yes good idea, but if TV providers won't help, then it won't do any good. I remember seeing this from the May, June, July 2021 Predictions (Predicted 2.22.21) :
• There is a class action lawsuit against Fox News for lying about the reality of the Covid pandemic. (Bluebelle)
• Legal problems for Fox TV, seems related to Covid lies. (GradualGoddess)
Been wondering how to help get that started, any ideas?
@jd1960 The Unfoxmycable is being promoted by Media Matters, a left wing media watchdog. Hopefully, they can have some impact on getting changes made.
@lenor I have heard that site mentioned on some progressive radio talk shows, and even read it sometimes. It's maddening that the so-called news outlet can get away with it.
Okay, I checked in a Verizon Fios forum where many people were asking how they could stop having to pay for Fox News, and Fios responded that they would not do it for them because they claimed that people from both sides (pro and con Fox) had tried to unfund the news they didn't like. If anyone has any ideas, let us know.
If broadband weren't a real, and terrible concern cutting the cord is the way to go. We still have metered internet (at least until Elon Musk saves us with StarLink later this summer) but cut the cord last year regardless. Instant savings of $150 a month after subscribing to the usual suspects - Netflix, Hulu, Disney +, etc. We stream a combination off of our Apple TVs (For Netflix and Disney that sip at the data) and for Hulu and HBO which drink out of whatever firehose of data they're connected to, thus eating a months data in 3 Game of Thrones episodes, via an HDMI cord hooked up to my unlimited data plan off the iPad (ATT - they MAY slow you down if the tower is congested, but we live in the middle of nowhere, they've never slowed us down). Nothing is installed on this that we don't support, though I was worried about having to give up Disney+ when the Fox Merger was taking place.
The cable and satellite companies are terrified about cord cutters. When we called to cancel Dish Network last year I was transferred through three different departments, all of whom claimed the world would tilt off its axis itself if I stopped paying nearly $200 a month for their services. They offered me everything under the sun and tried to scare me out of it with tales of people who came running back and couldn't get the same great rate (I nearly fell out of my chair laughing) they had before as long time loyal customers.
As I stare out my window right now it appears the earth is still spinning on its axis, and aside from waiting a couple of days after an airing to watch the Goldbergs, life around the television has been pretty normal. ??♂️
Fox can afford to lose advertisers because they are getting away with raising the fee they charge cable companies to more than what other companies are charging. Supposedly, you CAN get a program that is local channels plus five national channels via Comcast. I have yet t look into it
@jeanne-mayell Yeah, like I said in another thread, there is a price to pay for all energy sources. Near where I live, there is a big to-do about putting in a solar farm on some unused, unforested former farmland. The people living nearby are fighting it, which I don't get. Yeah, a nice open field would look better. But somebody's going to do something with that land, and would they rather have a huge subdivision? A commercial park? A smelly dairy farm? Solar farms don't cause much traffic and at least they allow a little bit of semi-natural habitat for certain critters that like open land.