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.



...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.



Join us in standing up to FOX, and we'll give you a free Turn Off FOX sticker. And then please ask your friends and family to do the same.

...or, at least you can make a statement. Do not go quietly into the night. Perhaps, we can at least slow the wingnut plans for a new Dark Ages.In case you haven't seen this or been aware of it... It's been obvious, to me, for a long time, that FOX made deal with several like-minded corporations to get their programing in public places. In New York, the Hudson News outlets are one prime and very ironic example. You walk in to buy a magazine or paper and there it is, the FOX 24-Hour Freak Show, a perfect storm of misinformation for the masses. I suppose it might come down to a "free speech" matter, but it is a very Orwellian and very twisted thing. Now, a couple of Progressive organizations, CREDO and Color Of Change are trying to do something about it. Meanwhile, we are an inch away from being one of those countries where the have banners and posters of "The Great Leader" all over the streets and plastered on all available surfaces and FOX is determined to lead the way.During the Republican 2004 Hate-Fest and "9/11 In Your Face" Exploitation Convention here in NYC, FOX either bought or was given airtime even on outside monitors, around the city. One was located on a wall at the corner of 7th Avenue and 34th Street, right on the MACY'S building, right out in public in a neighborhood where one used to have to go inside and pay if you wanted to see obscenity. The air in New York can get dirty and smelly enough without the machinations and warped views of a foreign media company owned by a power-mad Aussie opinion manipulator named Rupert Murdoch and Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a man with his own with highly questionable connections. It's hard to walk into chain restaurants or around airports without being exposed to Fox's incessant lies and twisted propaganda. I don't need to sit down and eat my breakfast knowing that it soon may come back up because I have to see Newt Gingrich's ugly mug on the screen, while I'm eating or any other time. It used to be the irritating idiocy of mindless soap operas and utter lunacy of Jerry Springer and Sally Jesse Raphael. Bring 'em back.And here they are... taking over Monday Night Football:The case from Credo and Color of Change:

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