Posted on 07/20/2007 3:42:13 PM PDT by new yorker 77
Say you had to go the Emergency Room at your local Hospital.
Say you were sitting in the waiting room and wanted to watch something like ESPN.
Say you were sitting there while your relative was being treated in an emergency room and you could not watch any more CNN.
So you change the channel.
Then you hear a voice, "Is that CNN?"
You say, "No it's ESPN."
They say, "The television must be on CNN at all times or the CEO has a fit."
I bit my tounge.
What kind of leftist Stalinist requires people who are sick to be subjected to hour upon our of al CNN?
I think a letter is in order, but do not think it will do much.
I may do something a little childish like take my universal remote to the ER and change the passcode which I know is 1234 and block CNN.
If this persists, I will openly name this hospital and the CEO and list all their contact information.
Until then, I just thought fellow Freepers should know that liberals are so desperate to push their agenda that they are willing to make the sick suffer in a local Emergency Room.
CEOs that can afford to piss off customers are short termers.
HHC's husband.
My cellphone has a built in infrared remote and a program that has codes for 99% of TVs that are out there.
Whenever I am waiting in a waiting room, somehow all of the TVs end up on FoxNews.
Hmmmmm. :)
Hammer time! (Then run like hell)
Your history is accurate, but Turner sold out to Time Warner, who sold out to AOL, which is now trying to dump the core AOL business, if they haven't already done so.
The same Stalinists that run airport terminals.
I work for a major “entertainment” (read- gambling) company and all audio and video sources in the building are my responsiblity. When the employee cafeteria was finally opened, the head suit told me that the TVs there were to only be on CNN or MSNBC. I had already programmed the TVs to block those two channels and every time he asked about it, I told him we were having cable issues. Eventually, he stopped asking and the employees watch what they want during their breaks
LOL. I just shut down all the TV’s with my PDA. It is hard to talk to patients and families with the TV running!
[I’ve spent a good bit of time in Emergency Rooms. It makes a difference over the space of 18 hours or so.]
If you are a white, male, anglo in an Arizona ER, you can expect a minimum wait of 8 hours. Half that time of CNN will put you in the rubber room.
Sure it is...and yes it might; can't hurt. Just don't sound quite as right wing as your post.
You might zero in on the word "choice", since that term seems to give this type of bureaucrat a woody.
Who knows - you might trick him into compliance!
This is so weird...just yesterday I saw that NYC GOP CHICK posted for the first time in many moons, which got me to wondering about my missing east coast buds (of which HHC is one)....and here ol' Sauropod (do I have that right??) pops in, kinda like a reverse Elizabeth Edwards!!
My last hospital stay, they had only CNN and network TV in the rooms. They had one other channel, I don’t remember what it was but I swear the only show it had was Walker, US Ranger. They also had TBS or some movie channel but it was slasher week. Hannibal Lecter movies one after another. Awful.
I thought I would go crazy. The doctor didn’t want to release me, so I told him another day of CNN and CBS and Walker would kill me.
I tried to watch it (CNN). I really did. But I couldn’t stand it.
I’m not missing, Ern. We’ve just been busy.
This is a laziness thing, too. Sometimes I won’t take the trouble to log in under my own name either. Then I’m “mrs. sauropod”.
Actually I’m Mrs. Sauropod all the time, but you know what I meant...
Let the CEO have a fit.
What is it with CNN and captive audiences? First it was people stranded in airports, and now it’s people too sick to reach the remote? I guess it’s one way to get ratings...
It’s the same at many hotels and motels, too. I asked at La Quinta in Ocala why Fox, Food Network and other popular channels aren’t available and was told “there is no call for them — no one watches them.” What a ditz.
These days with ipods and laptops you can free yourself from the offerings of institutions. In any wait situation like doctor and dentist offices and especially ER waiting rooms an ipod to me with music I happen to like is wonderful. A laptop with some good dvds beats the usual dreck broadcast tv gives you.
Sounds like you constructed it shiny-side-in. Try refolding it so the shiny side is out, and it might block MSNBC.
Next time, tell them "Well, when the CEO comes down to sit in the waiting room, I'll let him know it was me who changed the channel."
CNN won't cause arguments?
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