Fox spins Dish dispute

A substantial part of America is melted down over Dish network blocking Fox News. It’s a conspiracy. It’s ideological. The 65-plus age group that comprises the median audience for Fox had a collective cow over what was perceived as a politically motivated action to “silence the ‘truth’.”

Hmm. “Truth.” A 2012 survey showed Fox viewers are by far the worst-informed of TV news viewers, including watchers of comedy shows involving Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Looks like people who watch comedy know more about actual news than Fox News watchers.

Dish made no political statement whatsoever. It was a business decision. It was all about the money. Fox charges usurious licensing fees and has the reputation for adding massive extra fees on top of agreements already reached. Fox is too expensive. So this is just corporate capitalism in action, right?

But Fox spun it to their base and motivated an army of 70-year-old get-off-my-lawners to go berserk and write furious letters and make furious calls because some basic “right” of theirs was supposedly being violated.

This is corporate America and your “rights” are irrelevant. Your outrage was just fodder for a better business deal. You were being used. Get used to it.

Nancy Runyan

Spokane Valley