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During his volunteer shift he makes a point of changing the channel away from Fox in the waiting rooms every chance he gets. 
And do not forget the sinister objectives of the Sinclair network. They've merged with Tribune. That brings them another 250-or-so local TV stations into their clutches, and they can then shove Boris Epshteyn down more people's throats with MORE far-right/alt-right propaganda that will, guaranteed, NOT feature an opposing view.
And you can thank ronald fucking reagan for that. HE was the one who did away with the Fairness Doctrine and Equal Time Provision that required stations to present more genuinely balanced news and information programming. reagan said TV and radio station owners didn't have to do that anymore. As it used to be - you had to prove you were responsive to your community's needs and issues, WITH YOUR PROGRAMMING, in order to keep your license to broadcast.
And you had to document it. It was called "ascertainment." I had to do this all the time, as a news director. So did my usual partner in these things: the public affairs director. You'd invite some local official or leader-type (government, law enforcement, academic, business) and do a public affairs interview with him or her, to fill one of the half-hour or hour-long public affairs slots that tended to cluster on weekend early mornings and overnights. After that, you'd keep him or her for a few extra minutes to do an ascertainment interview, asking what they considered the most important local issues facing the community. There was a form to fill out, and room to fill in the answers as well as the identifiers for the interview subject. I'd go according to the form and follow along with everything that needed to be filled out - issue-wise, and fill those out on the spot. Then, after walking the guest out and thanking them, the form went into BIG binders that were kept to show to anyone in the public who asked, to prove that we were dutifully "ascertaining" what various kinds of community leaders thought were the local issues of the day, and then developing programming to address those issues.
We kept those records, as all stations did, because when it came time for license renewal, those books provided proof that we were responsive to the community and therefore deserving of holding that precious broadcast license in the public interest. Those books were open to anyone who asked to see them, including potential license challengers. I remember working at one station that had ongoing legal troubles based on what its corporate owners had done much earlier, and its license was always being challenged by interested groups. One of those groups had the actress Marla Gibbs (from "The Jeffersons"
as a member.
But reagan did away with those regulations because-regulations-are-horrible and now, basically, no station has to prove any community responsibility to anybody, any longer. Neat, huh? 
Ain't got time. Too much fake newz. Watchin' the games. Murcan Idol on after that. Prefer blonds. Fox is boss. ...
How much is ignorance, how much stupidity, how much lack of analytical skills, how much incuriosity, how much brainwashing, how much "Future Shock" (information overload; Alvin Toffler, 1970)? I'm sure a lot of it is just good old tribal bigotry unfortunately made worse by the reach of the Internet.
