Source: https://bsky.app/profile/funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social/post/3lmkfwebeuc27
In fact you can use your smartphone to change the channel on nearly any TV. In the comments on that post some people talk about how to do it. Basically you need a smartphone with either builtin IR or use a USB-C IR blaster or if your phone has a 3.5mm headphone jack you can also try one of those but I’m not sure if the 3.5mm ones are as commonly supported.
I was at a hospital waiting room one night for an ex’s mother’s injury. I’m not family so I had to wait in the waiting room, which had Fox News blaring. They wouldn’t change it. I couldn’t change it. But I could unplug all the TVs.
Nurse ratchet did not like that one bit.
I sometimes (jokingly) wonder if Hospitals show Fox News to try to get repeat business, and I don’t mean repeat business due to people who enjoy Fox coming back, I mean due to health complications caused by the stress of watching it.
Watching fox news does not cause you stress. It causes stress for all the people around you.
My grandpa got a dose of fox news for a while, and it took a long conversation to convince him that there is not a county in Michigan that is more that 50% Somali immigrants.
I think it depends on the person how they react.
These are some interesting articles: https://mhanational.org/resources/negative-news-coverage-and-mental-health/
https://hearyourselfthink.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Breaking-Through-with-a-Loved-One-Hooked-on-Fox.pdf