I’m trying to verify a report called into CSPAN by a viewer. He reported that McDonalds has installed new flat screen TV’s in their resturants in the area where he lives and the only channel that they allow to show is Fox News. More below.
As a frequent customer, he noted that the TV was always set to Fox news and he asked that the channel be changed. However, the manager told him that he was sorry he could not change the channel as it is corporate policy that only Fox News could be shown on the store TVs. The caller said he was quite upset over this so-called corporate policy and decided to track down further information.
Subsequently he was able to contact the Regional Director for McDonalds (I think it was the midwest.) He said that the Director told him that McDonalds was in the process of installing wide screen TV’s in all of their resturants over the entire 5 state region, and that the “Fox News only policy” was corporate policy for all McDonalds resturants in the region. The Director also stated that the reason for this policy was that McDonalds had determined that there is less violence on the Fox News channel than any other channel. Can anyone validate or expand on this report? Thanks…
