Posted on 02/08/2010 4:46:21 PM PST by Three if by government
I have been working out at a LA Fitness in the area noticed the other day that MSNBC and CNN has replaced Fox New.
I spoke with management they said that the corporate headquarters now directly control whats broadcast as the boxes were pulled from the gym.
He specifically asked corporate heads for one TV to air Fox his request was denied.
Every other channel are the same except for Fox News which was on 4 tv's being replaced by MSNBC and CNN.
Is this the future of America?
I have found one story back in 2009 that speaks to the same censorship of FOX.
Maybe its a gradually strategy? If anyone is having the same issue with this gym let me know.
I have been trying to get through to their upper management for comment.
If your interested here is LA Fitness headquarters on this topic below is the number.
1 888 889 0984 hit # 3
When you cancel yopur membership, make sure that corporate hdqs knows why.
Wow, that would be way cool.
We still get FNC at our Gold’s, they just took out some of the TV’s.
Yes I noticed this in my LA Fitness, too (Pittsburgh). I’m going there this afternoon & letting them know I’m not pleased. I understand that its their TVs, etc but if they aren’t willing to appease their membership, then I will go elsewhere.
I’ve been calling LA Fitness on a weekly basis to register my displeasure. From my frequent contacts with them here’s what I believe to be true:
- they screwed up big time with their new satellite provider which apparently limits their channel selections to about 5 channels or so.
- in response to the volume of complaints they have returned control of one of their tv boxes (my gym has 4, 3 are under control of the new provider) to the local gyms.
- the gym i go to does receive fox news because i saw it on 7 of the 12 tv’s only last week but only for a few minutes
- since that time i’ve requested every single time for them to turn the local box to fox news and every single time they’ve told me they don’t have any control over the box even though i’ve watched them go back and change the channel.
- so my conclusion is that my local gym is, despite pressure from corporate, refusing to offer members the choice of watching fair and balanced news coverage. their idea of choice is cnn or msnbc.
Only governments censor, private companies can do whatever the hell they wish, don’t like it, go to a competitor.
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