What should we think of FEMA after reading this? Haven’t they learned from Katrina?
From: http://www.wpbf.com/politics/14432802/detail.html
Disaster? FEMA Workers Pose As Reporters
Real Reporters Given 15 Minutes’ Notice Of Conference
POSTED: 3:08 pm EDT October 26, 2007
WASHINGTON (AP)– The Federal Emergency Management Agency knows how to get decent news coverage in Washington: have your own employees pose the questions to you at your news conference.
That’s what happened the other day at a news briefing on the agency’s role in the Southern California wildfires. Because FEMA gave just 15 minutes notice to reporters about the news conference, it made available an 800 number so reporters could call in and listen to the question-and-answer session.
The Washington Post reported that at the news conference itself, some FEMA employees played the role of reporter, lobbing softball questions at Deputy Administrator Harvey Johnson.
Johnson’s reply to one such query: I’m very happy with FEMA’s response.
I’m very Pro-America, middle of the road as far as politics is concerned, but this is actually a bit scary, and disappointing, to see our government is caught in the act of putting out disinformation and propaganda to our own population! d:(
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