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FEMA Sorry for Faking News Briefing

Posted by Zonk on from the if-you-want-a-job-done-right-do-it-yourself dept.

theodp writes "The Federal Emergency Management Agency's No. 2 official apologized Friday for leading a staged news conference Tuesday in which FEMA employees posed as reporters. All the while, real reporters listened on a telephone conference line and were barred from asking questions. In the briefing, Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson Jr., FEMA's deputy administrator, called on questioners who did not disclose that they were FEMA employees, and gave replies emphasizing that his agency's response to this week's California wildfires was far better than its response to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005."

5 of 403 comments (clear)

  1. First Post by kongit · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    woohoo

    1. Re:First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      zomg. how can they get away with something like that?

    2. Re:First Post by kongit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Anyway on topic

      Whoever thought up the idea for this and whoever allowed it to happen should be hit with a large wet trout until they are so afraid of fish that they can no longer bear the sight of water because it might just might contain fish. I just hope the White House doesn't decide this is a good example to follow. If so I am going to go find an island somewhere and start living there because I am not afraid of fish and I am afraid having an elected government without anyway for us the people who elect to be able to know what those we elected are actually doing.

  2. another reason to use open source by lawnsprinkler · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I have a good freind that has nothing left but his car and a USB flash drive Hopefully he is a linux user & will not have to buy a replacement copy of Windows. If he isn't, this would be a great opportunity for you to sell him on Ubuntu.
  3. Re:Sorry... by Attila+Dimedici · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Right, because the governments in Europe are so much better. "Our people voted against the EU Constitution, what will we do? Oh, I know let's just quietly put it into place anyway."

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    The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison