At FDA, TVs now turned to Fox News and can't be switched

[Demovictory9]

CBS News has confirmed an email was sent to researchers at the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research responding to apparent efforts to change the channel on internal television screens. The email from "[White Oak] Digital Display" sent on Wednesday, May 3, was sent to inform the researchers of the "reason for the change from CNN to Fox." White Oak is the name of the FDA's campus.

The email goes on to inform employees that the decision came from the Trump administration.

"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," the email reads.

Then, White Oak apologizes for the "inconvenience," adding, "I am unable to change any of the monitors to any other news source at this time."

An FDA spokesperson got back to CBS News after our deadline, telling us, "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."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/at-fda-tvs-now-turned-to-fox-news-and-cant-be-switched/

[pennylane100]

1. I cannot believe that is legal.

[maxsolomon]

2. why are there TVs on at all?

don't people have work to do?

It's not like it's DU and it's all retirees.

[Beartracks]

10. Common areas.

[maxsolomon]

14. OK, but why?

is there a need to occupy the public and keep them docile, like at an airport?

at work, we use monitors for teleconferencing, projecting information at meetings, and then for watching the Olympics every 2 years with the sound off. also for playing Christmas log videos.

[Beartracks]

20. Don't Christmas log videos keep you docile?

Anyhow, I'm thinking common areas like a lobby or breakrooms. I see TVs on all the time in common areas of businesses.

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[maxsolomon]

24. Weird.

TV is distracting. No one needs it at their office.

https://www.tvbgone.com/

[KatyMan]

11. Maybe in lobbies and breakrooms?

I work for a bank and in our building we have CNN on in the lobby, and in our break room HGTV, which is a pretty safe and sensible choice I think.

[Blue_true]

27. Break areas. Some people eat lunch there and watch television while doing so.

Very common at large campus jobsites.

[maxsolomon]

31. Bizarro World

I'm working on a job right now where the staff want a TV in the break room. I just can't fathom what you'd want to see on TV at noon.

[Blue_true]

32. Some people like to watch news.

I noticed that my dentist office completely stays away from cable news of any sort, preferring pop entertainment or old tv shows. Even the waiting room is free of any advocacy magazines. Looks like a studied approach to not upset clients and staff.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Sure, "No Directive".

That sounds like bullshit to me. Show the proof by changing it back than. Murdoch propaganda is running and suing the country on a grand scale. They are worse than Hearst and yellow journalism.

[Initech]

4. Can't they just turn them off?

[gratuitous]

7. Big Brother doesn't allow you to turn the visiscreens off

But yeah, why are these monitors there in the first place?

[Beartracks]

12. Common areas.

[edbermac]

19. 2018 - 1984

The birth of Fox News.

[Girard442]

5. Of course if the TVs got broken somehow... NT

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

26. Or

The plug removed from the set.

[pwb]

6. Fake fox ratings exposed.

[world wide wally]

8. So, now we do have an official state TV ?

[Still In Wisconsin]

17. Yes.

Yes,state media has arrived.

[world wide wally]

18. I am totally burnt out on this fucking fool

[Lars39]

9. Like Stalin Radio...

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/09/22/echo-in-the-dark

"n the land of the Soviets, the voice of the Kremlin was everywhere, an omnipresent reality-via-radio that long preceded Orwell’s dystopia. Lenin and Trotsky fomented revolution primarily in print—in the commanding editorials of Iskra and Pravda, in the frenzied leaflets passed around in St. Petersburg meeting halls and later reprinted in “Ten Days That Shook the World”—but the leading instrument of enculturation and inundation under Joseph Stalin was a broadcast technology called radio-tochka, literally “radio point,” a primitive receiver with no dial and no choice. These cheap wood-framed devices were installed in apartments and hallways, on factory floors, in train stations and bus depots; they played in hospitals, nursing homes, and military barracks; they were nailed to poles in the fields of collective farms and blared along the beaches from the Baltic to the Sea of Okhotsk."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

13. This is from 2017.

By LAURA STRICKLER CBS NEWS May 5, 2017, 3:20 PM

[renate]

21. thank you! that makes it worse...

... that the switch to Trump TV happened a year ago and most of us never knew about it till now.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

23. It was reported at DU at the time. NT

[Salviati]

15. I'm sure the researchers are aware of this product, but just to put it out on blast:

The TV-B-Gone® universal remote control allows you to turn virtually any TV On or OFF. We prefer OFF.

https://www.tvbgone.com

[Ilsa]

16. Why are govt employees watching tv while working?

Turn them off unless there is a local or national emergency.

[Blaukraut]

22. Speaking from experience, it is not that easy. n/t

[Beartracks]

25. The common areas are not the work areas. n/t

[CanonRay]

28. Break the damn things.

[csziggy]

29. I'd figure out how to get to the parental controls, block FOX and throw away the code

So it would take a long time to reset the TVs to allow Faux Noise back on. That, or get one of the TVbeGone remotes and just keep turning the TVs off.

[VOX]

30. State television must be watched by all loyal American citizens.

If you see or hear about anyone (including family members) not watching or being openly critical of our glorious Fuhrer, report them right away to any member of Erik Prince’s Private Christian Army. Hail, Trump!