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US federal staff being forced to watch Fox News instead of CNN, leaked email suggests
The Independent via Yahoo! ^ | May 6, 2017 | Narjas Zatat

Posted on 05/07/2017 8:52:35 AM PDT by TaxPayer2000

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Most Federal Facilities have what is called a Security Operations Center (SOC) that oversees the facilities security. They have monitor walls that are used to display cameras, security system status, etc. They have at least 1 monitor set to the news, usually CNN, but I’ve seen multiple news networks covered (depending on the facility and its size). There is the possibility that breaking news could provide information faster that is relevant in determining the facilities security posture.


21 posted on 05/07/2017 9:15:25 AM PDT by PJBankard
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This can’t be true. Don’t most hard-working (or is that hardly-working) federal employees watch porn all day?


22 posted on 05/07/2017 9:15:32 AM PDT by txrefugee
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“Forced?” I suppose for the past 8 years they were “forced” to watch CNN instead of Fox News, then.

At my work CNN is playing almost always as I come in to get my cab, etc. It’s awful. It’s either that or “Democracy Now!”


23 posted on 05/07/2017 9:17:53 AM PDT by Persevero (Love you guys)
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Fox has lurched so much to the left that the only thing that differentiates it from cnn and msnbc is Tucker (an Sean on a good day).

As far as injecting leftist talking points into the news and having the opinion segments be full-on conservative and Trump bashing, Fox is the same as all the rest these days.

Being “Not Quite as Bad” does not make one Good.


24 posted on 05/07/2017 9:18:25 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (The Civil Rights movement compared content of their character to skin color and chose the latter)
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Forced to watch Fox News rather than CNN? Does that mean that they prefered CNN and are now forced to watch Fox News? Or does it simppy mean they switched which channel plays on tvs in publuc places to the most popular news station after years of leaving on a less popular one?


25 posted on 05/07/2017 9:20:26 AM PDT by AndyTheBear
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Fox has lurched so much to the left that the only thing that differentiates it from cnn and msnbc is Tucker (an Sean on a good day).

Sean on a "bad" day is similar to what you see on CNN?

No.

26 posted on 05/07/2017 9:22:02 AM PDT by FreeReign
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Re; number 1

That’s what I was thinking.

Public servants should be spending every second serving the public. since they get paid more than their public counterparts they should do more not less. /sarc


27 posted on 05/07/2017 9:23:08 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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They should circulate a petition to require CNN only, then fire everyone who signs it.


28 posted on 05/07/2017 9:23:56 AM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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The suffering! The humanity!


29 posted on 05/07/2017 9:31:55 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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Brunell Donald-Kyei, and Sebastian Gorka DrG liked Fox News‏Verified account @FoxNews 1d1 day ago

.@POTUS: "I'm not against the media. I'm against the FAKE media." #CashinIn

30 posted on 05/07/2017 9:32:42 AM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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President of a public TV network offers that.


31 posted on 05/07/2017 9:36:13 AM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: TaxPayer2000

Previously “forced” to watch CNN rather than Fox.


32 posted on 05/07/2017 9:42:35 AM PDT by Socon-Econ
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“Forced to watch”

I hate Yahoo. Rat hacks. I got so sick of the pro rat splash pages when I checked my e-mail I changed to a different host, big hassle at the time but I am glad I did it.
So they they switched from CNN to FNN and this constitutes something the people that work there have to endure. I have never worked anywhere where you could television in the first place.


33 posted on 05/07/2017 9:44:00 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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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”.

They were too witless to recognize that they were being relentlessly propagandized with "left wing" nonsense all these years.

The change will do them good ;'}

34 posted on 05/07/2017 9:45:37 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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While they are watching TV they are doing less damage to you and me.


35 posted on 05/07/2017 10:15:27 AM PDT by arthurus
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a lot of staff were very upset about the change

Note should be taken of whosoever is put off by the switch. those are the employees who should be fired or at least transferred to jobs where they can't influence anything. Fox news is becoming CNN II but the perception that is the Right Wing channel draws this kind opposition and the opposition should be an identifier for leftie bureaucrats who should be squeezed out.

36 posted on 05/07/2017 10:18:52 AM PDT by arthurus
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I thought torture was against US policy?


37 posted on 05/07/2017 10:19:27 AM PDT by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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If things are that onerous, they can always quit.


38 posted on 05/07/2017 10:27:04 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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What’s OAN


39 posted on 05/07/2017 10:28:41 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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What’s OAN

One America News Network.

OANN.com

The only news I watch. The rest is crap.

40 posted on 05/07/2017 10:36:34 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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