Oh, the horror, THE HORROR!!
Posted on 05/07/2017 8:52:35 AM PDT by TaxPayer2000
An email has been sent to staff at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announcing that all their agency’s televisions will show Fox News, apparently by order of the Trump administration.
Journalist Paul Thacker tweeted a screengrab of the message, but an FDA spokesperson denied there had been any such order.
It reads: “Please excuse me for sending this out to your entire group via your listserv, but I was alerted by a member in your group and I wanted to let everyone know that the reason for the change from CNN to Fox.
“The reason for the change is that a decision from the current administration administrative officials has requested that all monitors, under our control, on the White Oak Campus, display Fox News.
“Sorry for the inconvenience, but I am unable to change any of the monitors to any other news source at this time."
The email was sent to workers at the Centre for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), the branch that regulates medical products.
An FDA spokesperson denied people had been ordered to watch Fox News, telling ThinkProgress: "There was no directive or memorandum from the Administration that went out to employees about broadcast news channels displaying on monitors in common areas throughout the FDA’s White Oak campus."
However an anonymous CBER employee told BuzzFeed News that “a lot of staff were very upset about the change”.
Another FDA staff member went further, expressing fear that having a “’right wing’ news source playing in our halls…will drive away some people on the left who are already suspicious about the FDA being a shill for big pharma”.
Donald Trump has made no secret of his dislike for CNN, referring to the news organisation as “fake news” on several occasions, and to the media as "the enemy of the people".
The administration even went so far as to block the news outlet, along with BBC, LA Times and New York Times from a media briefing earlier this year.
On one occasion, the US president wrote a scathing tweet about the media: "The Fake News media is officially out of control. They will do or say anything in order to get attention - never been a time like this!"
However, his words about Fox News have been positive, and he recently congratulated the network for its "unbelievable ratings hike".
Well, they were watching porn.
I wish I had a six-figure job where I could watch TV.
“I always knew it would be delicious. I never knew it would be THIS delicious.” — Dennis Miller
Typical Fed employee losers. They get paid to watch TV and bitch about it. What clods. Get to work or be RIF-ed!
That was my first and only question.
How about NO TV in work areas.
Forced to watch?
News Flash: American citizens forced to watch CNN in all US airports.
So in other words, there was problem at all when all the TVs were tuned to CNN.
The headline makes it sound like the staff was forced to watch Fox at home also.
Can't wait to see the headline about how Americans are forced to watch CNN, because that's the only thing that's on the TVs at US airports.
So are their eyes being held open like in A Clockwork Orange to force them to watch Fox? During the Obama administration was the headline “US federal staff being forced to watch CNN instead of Fox News”?
“Why are federal employees watching TV on monitors under federal control? Don’t they have something better to do, like their jobs?”
We had television news on to keep track of WTF was happening in the world, like incoming hijacked aircraft. Of course, this was in the intel community.
“”will drive away some people on the left who are already suspicious about the FDA being a shill for big pharma”. “”
The left is suspicious? That in itself is certainly news...
Federal employees concerned about what TV channel they get to watch on the taxpayer’s dime? Hmmmmm.
I call b.s.
Oh, the horror, THE HORROR!!
Whatchoo mean, "apparently", Willis?
What does it say on the "From" line?
Actually they should be “forced” to watch OAN. There’s absolutely NOTHING liberal coming out of that channel.
(Trump should buy it himself)
Announcing that all their agency’s televisions will show Fox News.
The recovery program has started.
Forced? How about “allowed”.
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