{"id":71917,"date":"2017-05-08T09:30:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T13:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71917"},"modified":"2017-05-08T09:22:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T13:22:29","slug":"fda-employees-claim-theyre-forced-to-watch-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71917","title":{"rendered":"FDA employees claim they&#8217;re forced to watch Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the UK&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us-federal-staff-being-forced-162245314.html\">Independent<\/a>, Federal Drug Administration employees have been instructed by the Trump Administration to watch Fox News instead of their usual CNN. There&#8217;s no evidence of the order, but that doesn&#8217;t stop folks from speculating;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Screen shot of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FDA?src=hash\">#FDA<\/a> email announcing all FoxNews all the time, on FDA TVs. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RleGhrO6Ws\">pic.twitter.com\/RleGhrO6Ws<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Paul Thacker (@thackerpd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thackerpd\/status\/860507247608287232\">May 5, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSorry for the inconvenience, but I am unable to change any of the monitors to any other news source at this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The email was sent to workers at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), the branch that regulates medical products.<\/p>\n<p>An FDA spokesperson denied people had been ordered to watch Fox News, telling ThinkProgress: &#8220;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\u2019s White Oak campus.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article continues about how President Trump doesn&#8217;t like CNN but loves Fox News and somehow that lends credibility to a single email.<\/p>\n<p>I remember when President Obama took over and waiting rooms in Walter Reed and at the VA switched over to CNN from Fox. I guess I&#8217;m a higher life form because I was able to look away from the CNN broadcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the UK&#8217;s Independent, Federal Drug Administration employees have been instructed by the Trump Administration &hellip; <a title=\"FDA employees claim they&#8217;re forced to watch Fox News\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71917\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FDA employees claim they&#8217;re forced to watch Fox News<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}