Twitter is abuzz right now with the idea that President Trump has ordered all federal agencies to switch their office TV sets from CNN to FOX News.
It all started with this tweet from a Buzzfeed reporter:
Someone at CBER sent me the email which told staff TVs had been switched to Fox News by order of the admin pic.twitter.com/rsCzpOtdpv
— Julia Reinstein (@juliareinstein) May 5, 2017
CBER is the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, and it is part of the Food and Drug Administration. The email in the screenshot, which presumably was forwarded to Buzzfeed from a CBER employee, seems to indicate that federal agencies have been directed by the new administration to turn their “news monitors” from CNN to FOX News.
Cue smarmy media tweets.
An FDA office switched its TVs from CNN to Fox News because of the Trump administration — here’s the email —> https://t.co/RQ7tH6dFCM
— Dominic Holden (@dominicholden) May 5, 2017
And look … proof!!
Here’s Fox News on the TVs at CBER, same day an email went out to staff saying it had been switched from CNN to Fox by order of Trump admin pic.twitter.com/uVPx8jekIk
— Julia Reinstein (@juliareinstein) May 5, 2017
Luckily, our side is putting the issue into proper perspective.
The Constitution mandates that every TV be tuned to CNN in every airport and federal office. https://t.co/BvYc7JjU35
— jon gabriel (@exjon) May 5, 2017