Reply #26: How reality mimics fiction>>>>

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Two week ago there was a story on "Boston Legal" exactly about this. It brought back a character from David E. Kelley's canceled series "Boston Public", the principled principal. He had installed a device like this on the TV's at the high school, to block only an un-named cable news network (it was named in the original script, but ABC censored it and forced them to not give Faux free publicity). The case went to court, and the attorney, a liberal, argued that it was a freedom of speech issue, and the device should be removed, while the defender of the principal argued, basically, that Faux was propaganda, and that the principal had the right to protect his students from such propaganda. The judge ruled in favor of the student who sued to get Faux back.
Amazing.