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Old 03-30-2005, 02:19 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Cellphone jammer:OUT FOX News Jammer:IN

The other night BOSTON LEGAL had an episode where a principal had installed these devices around school, his claim was that the channel caused mayhem and disrupted classes, kids said it infringed on their First Amendment rights.

Personally, I don't tune to those channels that I do not like the viewpoints. While I understand that one purchases these to "make a statment" my statement is from PT Barnum,"There's a sucker born every minute."

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Man Sells Device That Blocks Fox News
- By EMILY FREDRIX, Associated Press Writer
Friday, March 25, 2005

(03-25) 16:40 PST , (AP) --

It's not that Sam Kimery objects to the views expressed on Fox News. The creator of the "Fox Blocker" contends the channel is not news at all. Kimery figures he's 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, since its August debut.

The Tulsa, Okla., resident also has received thousands of e-mails, both angry and complimentary — as well as a few death threats.

"Apparently the making of terroristic threats against those who don't share your views is a high art form among a certain core audience," said Kimery, 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 its everyday members.

Kimery now contends Fox News' top-level management dictates a conservative journalistic bias, that inaccuracies are never retracted, and what winds up on the air is more opinion than news. "I might as well be reading tabloids out of the grocery store," he says. "Anything to get a rise out of the viewer and to reinforce certain retrograde 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 been averaging 1.62 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 channel, 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. After buying the $8.95 device online, would-be blockers are shown a letter that they can send to advertisers via the Fox Blocker site.

"The point is not to block the channel or block free speech but to raise awareness," said Kimery, who works in the tech industry.

Kimery doesn't use the device himself; his remote is programmed to only a half-dozen channels. Plus he occasionally feels the need to tune into Fox News for something "especially heinous."

Business could pick up since the blocker was alluded to in a recent episode of the ABC drama "Boston Legal." The show's original script mentioned Fox News, but ABC had the references removed.

The boisterous conversations on Fox News may be why the station is so popular, said Matthew Felling, media director for the Center for Media and Public Affairs, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media watchdog group. And despite 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."

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On the Net:

Fox Blocker:

Fox News:

www.foxblocker.com


www.foxnews.com/

URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...e132413S60.DTL


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Old 03-30-2005, 02:24 PM   #2 (permalink)
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ok.. I really really want one of those
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Old 03-30-2005, 02:32 PM   #3 (permalink)
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That would remove one of my favorite forms of entertainment. I've never laughed harder than I have at some of the content I see on Fox News.
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Old 03-30-2005, 04:23 PM   #4 (permalink)
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My dad's birthday is coming up...

That would be perfect.
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Old 04-01-2005, 01:00 AM   #5 (permalink)
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honestly...i have tried to block fox news, but i find that it is just too funny to watch...seriously, i go there JUST to get pissed off at teh absurdity of what is being said.


now...i am thinking of buying the box for my sanity and the sanity of my friends who hear me rant about it
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Old 04-01-2005, 09:21 AM   #6 (permalink)
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FOX News is one of the finest, most well respe.... Bah! I can't do it...

I need a FOX Blocker so I can sneak onto the cable company and install it at their satellite uplink.
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Old 04-01-2005, 09:36 AM   #7 (permalink)
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My roommate watches these programs almost daily and everytime I overhear something it's either moronic, childish, or just inflammatory.

I thought muckraking was supposed to be frowned upon in modern society? I guess people really just want to be told what they want to hear! Kudos to Kimery and only $8.95, great price too!
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Old 04-01-2005, 12:32 PM   #8 (permalink)
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The bit on Boston Legal was an in-joke. The principal and school that had blocked Fox News were from the tv show Boston Public. Both shows are written by David E. Kelly, and Boston Public was aired on the Fox network.
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Old 04-02-2005, 07:28 AM   #9 (permalink)
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I like the idea of this machine
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Old 04-02-2005, 10:15 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Wow i guess I'm not the only one that despises that channel. Unfortunately, I'm forced to watch it while eating chow, and it really makes me lose my appetite. Especially that 1000% nonstop coverage of terry sciavo for like a week straight. I feel for her and all, but do I have to see her grinning at me while I'm trying to eat my eggs everyday?

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Old 04-02-2005, 12:29 PM   #11 (permalink)
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People are just finding out about this technology? It's been out for decades, people have been using jammers to jam all sorts of things for years now. I do like how more ppl that didn't know about their existence now do and will always wonder if a jammer is around. Sure to get more of those jammer seekers with their scanners homing in on the illegal jammers, Jammer users beware.
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Old 04-03-2005, 08:19 AM   #12 (permalink)
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hmmm, this sounds interesting, I have no interest in the channel it blocks, just in how it is blocking it, because fox comes in on various different channels depending on where you live, so does it block Fox specifically regardless of channel, or is it just a one channel blocker and you have to tailor it to your local... Time to do some research
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Old 04-04-2005, 04:28 PM   #13 (permalink)
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me, being a fairly left wing person decided to stir some shit up, or at least read over (and laugh) some posts at some ridiculous right-wing convervative bullshit forum. it was hilarious. everyone was anti-liberal, anti-canada, pro-war, and pretty muche everyone was one of those "nu conservatives", rich-parent, pseudo intellectual loudmouths. but anyway (enough with the stereotypes, even though it was pretty much true for this place)

anyway, there was a thread that "some fascist canadian television station cancelled fox news, because liberals are fascists who don't believe in freedom of speech" (they kept calling liberals and canadians fascists, who censored freedom of speech)

i kept trying to tell them fox news got dropped up here because it sucked. they wouldn't have it. even when i reminded them that it's possible that programs can get dropped because of poor ratings, they could spouting their Coulter-Crap. It was mind-numbingly stupid. These people were such idiots, that i had to resort to pure trolling, as i couldn't think of anything intelligent (even if i did, it would be pointless)

i guess poor ratings was just a bad alibi for the fascists in canada to cover up the soothsayers at fox news.

i wish i had that URL, it was awesome. it wasn't small either. quite a large community, of sorely mislead fools.
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Old 04-04-2005, 05:21 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Pretty sweet. Anything that can get Bill O'Reilly off the television is a great thing.
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Old 04-05-2005, 07:36 AM   #15 (permalink)
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Pretty sweet. Anything that can get Bill O'Reilly off the television is a great thing.
it's already a feature that came with your TV. It's called an OFF button and it didn't cost extra.
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Old 04-05-2005, 11:40 AM   #16 (permalink)
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it's already a feature that came with your TV. It's called an OFF button and it didn't cost extra.
But that's not as fun as jamming it. The latter is a better option, IMO.

Imagine doing it to some loon... "BARRARAR glahhh liberal MEDIA NONSENSE JAMMING ME UP blarrrrgh"
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Old 04-05-2005, 11:46 AM   #17 (permalink)
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But that's not as fun as jamming it. The latter is a better option, IMO.

Imagine doing it to some loon... "BARRARAR glahhh liberal MEDIA NONSENSE JAMMING ME UP blarrrrgh"
yeah I do that to my cable box selections. I don't have any shopping channels, never see anything pop up suddenly in Spanish, don't get any religious programming and again, it didn't cost extra, just used the Favorites function.

I think you like the "romance" of jamming it, but hey, if you want to pay extra go right ahead. I get the same effect without handing someone my hard earned duckets.

I stand by my original statement from PT Barnum,"There's a sucker born every minute."
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Old 04-05-2005, 08:10 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Too bad I just read this because I'm falling asleep and can't address it right now. I'm making a note and hopefully I will be back tomorrow to address it...

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Old 04-06-2005, 07:49 AM   #19 (permalink)
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I know the FCC would lock me away for a long time, but I REALLY want to put a cellphone jammer in my car that goes out in a one mile radius... That way noone near me can be on their damn phone...

I couldn't imagine how much safer it would be for me to drive with that little toy...
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Old 04-06-2005, 08:05 AM   #20 (permalink)
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I know the FCC would lock me away for a long time, but I REALLY want to put a cellphone jammer in my car that goes out in a one mile radius... That way noone near me can be on their damn phone...

I couldn't imagine how much safer it would be for me to drive with that little toy...
It would be a lot safer, especially for the guy two blocks over who just got in an acident and is trying to call 911 before someone bleeds to death.


I'm constantly amused by the phone jammer in my mom's church. Outside, 4 bars. Inside, nothing.
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Old 04-06-2005, 11:03 AM   #21 (permalink)
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I know the FCC would lock me away for a long time, but I REALLY want to put a cellphone jammer in my car that goes out in a one mile radius... That way noone near me can be on their damn phone...

I couldn't imagine how much safer it would be for me to drive with that little toy...
Yeah that sounds like a great solution for drivers. So that they'd actually have to stop talking, look at their phone wondering why they don't have any bars, all while driving 70 MPH. Take the simple distraction and magnify it 4x -5x. Yeah that'll teach them.
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