probabilityfields

i got my music software working like a charm. in a word, it rocks! hopefully i’ll get some time to play with it a lot in the next couple weeks and post some recordings, just fun stuff.

and now:
The Fox Blocker. It’s a device that you can use to keep Fox News from appearing ever on your TV. The whole premise behind it is that people will by it at its low-low-price of $8.95 and then they can show their sales numbers to advertisers who will then pull their money out of the network and topple the entire right-wing propaganda factory.

I’m not sure how I feel about this. I don’t even have cable, so it doesn’t really matter. But if I did, I might purchase this little device just to add numbers to the argument. But really, how affective could it possibly be? I suppose a few thousand people will buy them, but the truth is that Fox is the leading cable news provider. No matter how many liberals purchase it, it’s still not going to make much of a difference.

Then there’s the issue of ignorance. I’m not really gonna say that ignoring Fox News is tantamount to real, dangerous ignorance (whatever that can be defined as), but it’s still ignorance. One that’s much different than simply not watching the channel or not having cable. It just seems a little problematic. The right wing could respond by releasing a blocker that keeps people from watching any news but Fox; much like Star Spangled Ice Cream, the alternative to the liberal Ben & Jerry’s for people with a more conservative taste, i.e. “I Hate the French Vanilla”, “Iraqi Road”, and my favorite “Smaller GovernMINT”.

Then again, maybe it could work. Maybe half-a-million people will buy Fox Blockers and another million will buy the Anything-but-Fox Blockers and then in recognition of the absurdity people will suddenly become more critical of their media. Maybe, but not likely.

If I had cable I’d definitely consider buying this little device, but I doubt I’d hook it up. Watching O’Reilly can be good for inciting rage when needed. The Fox Blocker is a small gesture, and probably a futile one, but it’s one of the more creative ideas to come about recently and I’ll give it that respect. But it seems all to symptomatic of the disease that’s afflicting the left: disunity and consequent misdirection of effort.