That blows. You're in a tough spot
I'm against any TVs having news channels on at work, I think it's inappropriate because television news really isn't news, it's bull shit reality TV entertainment pretending to be a lens turned on the world. The news shows that do a good job reporting the news, like PBS, only have 1-2 hours of news programs a day so it's not like you can really put "the office TV" to PBS ... for most of the workday it's children's TV shows. Also I think it makes sense that the channel that has good news reporting, PBS, only reports the news for about 1-2 hours a day... When you have to fill up 18-24 hours of programming around news, you have to fill it with bull shit. Even if you agree with the political direction of the news program and most of your coworkers agree, I think it's bad for the work environment. I politically agree with *all* of my close colleagues/friends at work, we're all pretty much in the same realm politically, but if we sat around for a half hour watching MSNBC or CNN, we'd end up getting testy and having buttons pushed in inappropriate ways at the office.
THere's 3 autobody shops side by side in a little stretch kinda near my house, and all three of them are about equal with quality, but one of them has Fox on in the waiting room, one of them puts on like daytime TV, and the other doesn't have a TV but has wifi. I go out of my way to go to the wifi one and just to get some fuckin peace. What's interesting about Fox too is that for about half of Americans it's just "the default news channel," not necessarily because they have horrible opinions, but because they've done such a good job at casting dispersions on all other news, and then going back to its founding really putting effort into flashy overlays, good lighting, modern looking sets, and hiring attractive/engaging hosts. The Red White and BLue thing has become a cliche if you're slightly left of center, but for like 50%+ of Americans that's the default of what they think news should be, and Ted Koppel sitting in front of a black desk even with modern wipes and presentation, feels old, out dated, and because of the effectiveness of Fox' counter-programming, biased even for people who feel like they're otherwise non-political. Fox became the most consistently dominant news station partly for the same reason that Cocomelon is like eye-crack for toddlers (cocomelon has like 20-30 cuts/scenes per minute, while other children's shows tend to have 4-5 cuts per minute, rarely more than 10 per minute, it's like eye crack... If you ever suffer through cocomelon with your kids, start counting the number of seconds it takes for the scene/perspective/cut to change, it's rarely longer than 4 seconds, sometimes as quick as 1-2 seconds)
A otolarygologist office we go to has whatever generic home remodelling/decorating shows on HGTV or the equivalent channels. Much better than news, and I'm glad they do that.
