All Propaganda.
AP sets up secure web site so Trump-hating federal employees can run to the media and not get caught
You've probably heard in the past day or two that the Trump Administration has imposed a "gag order" on the EPA and the USDA. That's the media being drama queens. As with any change of administration, policies are reviewed, and until new policies are put in place and everyone understands them, the new boss doesn't want agencies under him undermining his priorities by making public statements that conflict with them.
For example, the White House doesn't want the EPA posting on Facebook and Twitter about "climate change" in ways that reflect Obama policies but not Trump policies. That's as ordinary as the day is long, and you'll see it at any level of government or within any corporation when new leadership replaces old and policies are reviewed.
But the media are all about giving you "news" that advances the narrative that Trump is Hitler, and the faker the betterr, so they're in a meltdown over this Gestapo-like silencing of the brave, truth-telling public servants deep in the bureaucracy.
And since the media are most definitely at war with the president, they're trying using their social media accounts to let bureaucrats know how they can disobey the boss and - they hope - get way with it.
The AP has set up a secure site that serves little purpose other than to let Trump-hating federal employees cover their tracks when they give unauthorized leaks to their favorite AP reporters. One of those is Seth Borenstein, who is letting his Facebook friends in the deep state know there are many ways they can violate policy and live to tell about it:
Now the AP would have you believe that all they want is to protect earnest federal workers seeking to promote transparent, open government. But you know perfectly well that's not what this is about. The AP wants to find federal employees, especially Obama holdovers, who will denounce Trump policies or provide lurid tales of dysfunction within the administration.
If all they wanted was to get the facts, they would at least wait until the Trump Administration announced its policies and procedures on who can talk to the press and under what circumstances - and how agencies can use their social media accounts. If there are problems with the new policies, that can be discussed. But all that's happening right now is a very normal review in light of the change in command and the obvious likelihood that some who've been manning the controls of those social media accounts might not be aligned with the policies of the new president.
And make no mistake: What the AP is doing here is asking federal employees to violate official policy - and providing them with a method by which to do so - with the hope and the promise that they will not get caught. How many times has the AP treated it as a scandal that someone in the government didn't follow the rules they were supposed to follow? Apparently that all goes out the window when rulebreaking is to the benefit of the news media.
By the way, now that you know about this site, I want to urge you in the strongest possible terms not to submit fake news tips to the AP. That would be a terrible thing to do. We wouldn't want that..
I know it would be very tempting to follow the instructions on the site, go through the track-covering URL and then send the AP totally bogus news tips, all so you can sit back and have fun watching them chase their tails and make fools of themselves. That would serve them right considering that they set this up for the purpose of encouraging government employees to be derelict in their duties.
But whatever you do,
don't go to this link right here and submit fake news tips to the AP!
It would be bad.
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