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In reply to the discussion: At FDA, TVs now turned to Fox News and can't be switched [View all]mahatmakanejeeves
(57,393 posts)49. Here's the article in TWSJ. about this, via the author's Twitter feed.
Why did the #FDA change the news feed on its public t.v. monitors from CNN to Fox? My @WSJPolitics story
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In Trump era, #FDA t.v. monitors got switched to Fox News from CNN. Fox News on the left. My @WSJ story
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CNN and Fox News Fight for TV Supremacy at FDA Headquarters
By Thomas M. Burton
@TomBurtonWSJ
Tom.Burton@wsj.com
May 5, 2017 3:00 pm ET
1 COMMENTS
With the new administration comes a new cable-news pick at the Food and Drug Administration: Officials switched television monitors at the agencys main campus to Fox News from CNN, before later changing some of them back.
Personnel responsible for the TV displays told a group of employees in an email this week that the reason for the change {to Fox News} 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. The note added: I am unable to change any of the monitors to any other news source at this time.
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By Thomas M. Burton
@TomBurtonWSJ
Tom.Burton@wsj.com
May 5, 2017 3:00 pm ET
1 COMMENTS
With the new administration comes a new cable-news pick at the Food and Drug Administration: Officials switched television monitors at the agencys main campus to Fox News from CNN, before later changing some of them back.
Personnel responsible for the TV displays told a group of employees in an email this week that the reason for the change {to Fox News} 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. The note added: I am unable to change any of the monitors to any other news source at this time.
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Share this: http://on.wsj.com/2qMAyju
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I've seen this in other countries with right-wing leaders (even supposedly 'democratic' ones)
tenorly
May 2017
#1
There's a restaurant at the municipal airport in Camarillo CA that's like that.
calimary
May 2017
#19
Clearly illegal and immoral. Plus, didn't they just claim they never ordered this?
byronius
May 2017
#2
I've heard that NK sets will only receive the govt channel & nothing else is even possible
7962
May 2017
#50
If they're using "smart tvs" then it is possible they're being used as spying devices
diva77
May 2017
#57
Here's the article in TWSJ. about this, via the author's Twitter feed.
mahatmakanejeeves
May 2017
#49