FEMA workers masquerade as reporters
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Seriously?!?!?! This department has been proven again and again to be a joke...
FEMA workers masquerade as reporters
Employees asked questions at last minute California wildfire briefing
The Associated Press
Updated: 1:23 p.m. ET Oct 26, 2007
WASHINGTON - One way to get decent coverage in this rough-and-tumble city is to arrange to have your own employees interrogate you at your news conference.
That would seem to be the strategy of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, much maligned for its sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina over two years ago.
FEMA scheduled an early afternoon news briefing on only 15 minutes notice to reporters here Tuesday to talk about its handling of assistance to victims of wildfires that were ravaging much of Southern California.
But because there was so little advance notice for the event held by Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson, the deputy FEMA administrator, the agency made available an 800 number so reporters could call in. And many did, although it was a listen-only arrangement.
At the news conference itself, some FEMA employees played the role of reporter, asking questions of Johnson - queries described as soft and gratuitous.
"I'm very happy with FEMA's response," Johnson said in reply to one query from a person who was an agency employee, not an independent journalist.
Asked about this, Mike Widomski, FEMA's deputy director of public affairs, said, "We had been getting mobbed with phone calls from reporters, and this was thrown together at the last minute."
Johnson issued a statement Friday saying that FEMA's goal was "to get information out as soon as possible, and in trying to do so we made an error in judgment."
"Our intent was to provide useful information and be responsive to the many questions we have received," he said. "We can and must do better."
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21490838/
FEMA workers masquerade as reporters
Employees asked questions at last minute California wildfire briefing
The Associated Press
Updated: 1:23 p.m. ET Oct 26, 2007
WASHINGTON - One way to get decent coverage in this rough-and-tumble city is to arrange to have your own employees interrogate you at your news conference.
That would seem to be the strategy of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, much maligned for its sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina over two years ago.
FEMA scheduled an early afternoon news briefing on only 15 minutes notice to reporters here Tuesday to talk about its handling of assistance to victims of wildfires that were ravaging much of Southern California.
But because there was so little advance notice for the event held by Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson, the deputy FEMA administrator, the agency made available an 800 number so reporters could call in. And many did, although it was a listen-only arrangement.
At the news conference itself, some FEMA employees played the role of reporter, asking questions of Johnson - queries described as soft and gratuitous.
"I'm very happy with FEMA's response," Johnson said in reply to one query from a person who was an agency employee, not an independent journalist.
Asked about this, Mike Widomski, FEMA's deputy director of public affairs, said, "We had been getting mobbed with phone calls from reporters, and this was thrown together at the last minute."
Johnson issued a statement Friday saying that FEMA's goal was "to get information out as soon as possible, and in trying to do so we made an error in judgment."
"Our intent was to provide useful information and be responsive to the many questions we have received," he said. "We can and must do better."
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21490838/
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another example of smoke and mirrors....pathetic.
So worried, that this would last...
But now I'm learning, learning that this will pass...
I just can't understand how someone that was in charge could honestly think that it was a good idea?
I can understand wanting to get information out, but just make a statement send out a press release with all of the important info, not put together an SNL sketch.
was like a picture
of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
Hail, Hail!!!
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FEMA Admits It Held Fake Press Conference about California Wildfires; FEMA
Staffers Posed as Journalists
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You guys did such a magnificent job ever since that Katrina thing... my question is... how can you guys be more awesome? I mean, I think you are at the top of awesomeness... no... here's awesomeness and you guys are, like, this much higher. so, basically... you can't do any better than you're doing, right... because that level of awesomeness doesn't even exist, right?"
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I would of loved to have been at the meeting for this
"But I wanna be the camera guy!"
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I suppose posing as reports is better than posing as people who might actually help someone who needs it. Either way, it's just a costume.
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