Screen shot of the FDA email announcing ALL FOX - ALL THE TIME

[kpete]

Denial issued:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/fda-denies-trump-admin-directed-it-to-turn-tvs-to-fox-news

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[Sculpin Beauregard]

1. How is this legal?

[TheBlackAdder]

13. The Official State Media! Which state are the actors though?

[Lifelong Protester]

2. Can they turn the screen off?

[StarryNite]

22. If they can't turn it off...

they should put a trash bag over the screen.

[democratisphere]

3. Propoganda fake news and comment is preferred to reality.

Nothing new here.

[global1]

8. If Fake News Is What They Want Why Don't....

CNN & MSNBC provide fake news that is really off the wall and detrimental to Trump. The bigger the lie and the more it is told - the more people will believe. Fight fake news with fake news. As long as Trump is calling legitimate news fake news anyway - might as well go all in and give it to him.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. No. Sorry, but that idea is a really stupid idea. Not you, the idea. . . . nt

[global1]

19. I Agree - But I Thought That Maybe Stupid Should Be Fought With Stupid......nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. I understand the feeling, but it is not good strategy. . . nt

[bettyellen]

25. That's exactly what the Russian want- no trust in the media at all. Wrong answer.

[pscot]

4. This is beyond fucked

This will spread and become more virulent if it's allowed to.

[Turbineguy]

5. No surprise, really.

It's a big effort to turn everybody in the government against the American people.

[spanone]

6. they wouldn't want any employees thinking outside the fox

mind control

[underpants]

16. Good one.

[mopinko]

7. just when you think it couldnt get any more frightening.

there is no bottom.

#resist

[Chiyo-chichi]

9. "a decision from the current administration administrative officials has requested..." ??

If this is real, whoever wrote that should go back to middle school.

Does watching Fox News cause this kind of inarticulate rambling or is it just that uneducated blithering idiots gravitate toward Fox News? That's what the "CBER Researchers" should be looking into.

[C_U_L8R]

10. Smash the screens

Seriously. That's abusive torment by TV.

[JDC]

11. Pure fascism. Wtf

[L. Coyote]

12. get rid of all televisions to save the future

Stay away from this menace to the mind.

[sharp_stick]

14. I know that where I work

that would be plug pulling time.

[Orsino]

15. The reason for the policy is that the Administration changed the policy?

That is not an explanation at all.

[progressoid]

17. Good lord.

[Neema]

21. If I worked there I would start taping Russian and Nazi propaganda posters over the monitors.

It's the same difference.

[OldRedneck]

23. FDA denies the memo

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/332133-fda-denies-memo-saying-it-only-allows-fox-news-on-tvs

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday denied the validity of a memo circulating on social media that claims that Fox News will be the only news network allowed on the televisions of one of the agency's units.

“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,” an FDA spokeswoman told The Washington Post's Erik Wemple.

The memo, which was apparently sent to employees at the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), says that administration officials have "requested that all monitors, under our control, on the White Oak Campus, display FOX news."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2017/05/05/fda-denies-fox-news-only-show-allowed-its-headquarters/101326896/

https://www.benzinga.com/news/17/05/9413868/fda-spokesperson-administration-not-behind-screen-changes-from-cnn-to-fox

[2naSalit]

24. Cruel and unusual punishment for being scientists....nt

[tenorly]

26. I've seen this in other countries with right-wing leaders (even supposedly 'democratic' ones)

In Argentina, for instance, the current president, Mauricio Macri, keeps the head of restaurant workers' union on his side by bribing him, such that any bar or restaurant staffed with members of his union will almost always have the tv set tuned in to TN - the right-wing cable news outlet similar to Fox.

[ancianita]

27. Very much like the German theaters that played "Triumph Of The Will" 'til the day of surrender.

[aggiesal]

28. OK, so I have a really funny story to tell about FOX news at our company ...

I was working at a place called Cymer in San Diego.

The cafeteria had approximately a half dozen TV's hanging throughout
the dining area, all connected to a DirecTV box underneath the primary
TV, locked behind a glass cabinet door.

The person responsible for the control of the TV and what channels to watch
was a retired Navy person. He would only put on Fox news, and it was driving
me and some friends crazy that we had to listen to Fox BS.

So I purchased a simple $5 universal remote that can control DirecTV STB's.
We would sit in front of the primary TV and under the table change the channel
to CNN, MSNBC, ESPN or some local news show. Very discrete.

The Navy retiree would come in and look at the TV's and wonder why CNN was on?
He'd go to the office and get the key to the cabinet and change the channel back
to Fox, then go and drop the key back to his office.

While he left and drop the key off, we'd change the channel back to what we
were watching, only to see the Navy retiree come back in and go through the
same blank look.

This would go on for months, to the point where he thought the STB was broken
and ordered a new box. We'd program the remote to the new box and off we go
again.

By the time I left the company, he had never figured out how we were able to
change the channels if the remote for the STB was locked behind the glass door
cabinet.

I even had people come to me before lunch and ask for the remote so they can
change the channel if I was not planning on eating lunch in the cafeteria.

It was classic and pure bliss, to watch this FOX nut try to figure out what was
happening and how the channels were changing.

[L. Coyote]

29. How is this not government mandated brain washing?