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MEDIA Mis-Information: AP Headline is a Total LIE... Story DeBunks the Headline

Melensdad

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Why don't people trust the media anymore?

This is an amazing example of why, a shameless lie from the Associated Press. Read the headline and then read the second paragraph. WTF? Then read the third paragraph, which calls Trumps efforts to trim bureaucracy, and implies the headline is true, despite the fact that the preceding sentence destroys the entire premise of the story!




Air traffic controllers were initially offered buyouts and told to consider leaving government

The air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport is pictured, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025, in Arlington, Va., near the wreckage of a mid-air collision between a Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines jet in the Potomac River. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Just a day before a deadly midair collision at Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C., employees at the Federal Aviation Administration were sent an offer to resign with eight months’ pay.
The union for air traffic controllers recommended to its members that they not accept Tuesday’s offer, because the FAA had not decided which positions would be included in the resignation plan. An official for the Office for Personnel Management, the U.S. government’s human resources arm, said Friday that controllers weren’t eligible for the resignation plan or subject to the hiring freeze across much of the rest of federal government.
The crash Wednesday that killed all 67 people on board an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter has renewed focus on the real-world implications of President Donald Trump’s push to slash the federal bureaucracy.
 
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