Boggie Dog

VIPR teams are made up with FAM's for the most part. FAM's make a pretty nice salary plus 25% of their base pay in LEAP. FAM's should be flying not doing ground jobs.

halls120

New regime has probably realized their "transparency" is a waste of time, since no one believes them. That, or they've finally wised up to the reality that having their lies refuted in public wasn't advancing their agenda.

gsoltso

To be perfectly honest, I think it has more to do with a new direction by the leadership of the Blog. Hopefully the new content moving forward will be to the advantage of all parties. We will see how things shake out before too terribly long.

Boggie Dog

It would be nice to be able to contact the blog and let the powers that be what readers think about that decision. What new direction? The only change of direction that I have seen so far is no public comments.

TSA afraid to hear what we have to say?

gsoltso

If you wish to voice your opinions to the folks that operate the blog and other social media sections, you can reach them through AskTSA at Twitter or The Book of Face. I believe they are trying to generate a more central architecture for all of our social media outlets, which makes sense from an organizational POV. I am about 98% certain that the change was not because of what passengers were saying, but a difference in the way that they approach social media in general. Some teams want to do direct contact (like the Blog was - to an extent), others want to provide information without distraction (like more traditional governmental sites), some want to provide direct information in a "media" style, like in magazines or the "Life" section of a newspaper. There are other versions, and degrees of each, but those are the primary categories that appear to be most pervasive in government. I just hope we continue to put our good content, and stay on message, maybe expand to include more travel tips, more frequently. The blog post that had the most hits consistently was the one from years ago about the razors - literally, every month, we had more hits for that than anything else. If we work to consistently update our travel tips so that they remain current, it would be a positive development.

We will see where we are headed.

halls120

The "new direction" of less transparency? How are things going to "shake out" when communication is just one way?

Your agency just keeps digging a bigger hole for itself. Given your current administrator, I'm not surprised he's adopted a FU attitude towards the public.

petaluma1

@ASKTSA - stop with the jokes already. They, like the blog, respond only to questions they want to respond to, when it serves their purpose, and ignore the rest.

GUWonder

FliesWay2Much

Everybody of any influence who could have publicly complained and effected real change has long-sense bought into ExtortionCheck and have been silenced. The only ones left are the citizens who have been outright abused and arguably sexually assaulted for the the crime of buying a plane ticket. TSA abuses simply aren't newsworthy anymore.

Boggie Dog

As stated in your signature line to learn the truth both sides must be listened too. TSA has no use for the truth.

Boggie Dog

As suggested in Post #20 I sent a message asking about the blog comments to @ASKTSA. My question, as expected, was ignored.

petaluma1

Further, how would anyone expect any meaningful response to a serious question in 240 characters. It's nothing but a charade.

Boggie Dog

Charade, doesn't that pretty much describe TSA?

chollie

They haven't programmed the bot responses yet.

petaluma1