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superstition
10-27-2007, 08:54 AM
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.

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Chicago Tribune (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-102507-femabriefing,1,272790.story)

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superstition
10-27-2007, 08:56 AM
The actual headline should be "FEMA Sorry for Being Caught Faking News Briefing".
35ft6
10-27-2007, 03:56 PM
This is a blatant example, but, essentially, staged political briefings have been going on for a long time. This administration has taken to new heights though.

Like the Presidential debates, wTF?! They should be asked tough questions and follow up questions. This country is going to continue its slide into idiocy unless people demand more substance.
tbini87
10-27-2007, 04:03 PM
that is pathetic. their response and apology will prob be even more pathetic.
stormholloway
10-27-2007, 05:22 PM
This is a blatant example, but, essentially, staged political briefings have been going on for a long time. This administration has taken to new heights though.

Like the Presidential debates, wTF?! They should be asked tough questions and follow up questions. This country is going to continue its slide into idiocy unless people demand more substance.

Precisely. This is nothing now except for now they're telling us they're faking it. Soon this method will be accepted.

Soon there will only be The Official Message. Journalism, even the current mutation of it, will die.
superstition
10-28-2007, 09:59 AM
Soon there will only be The Official Message. Journalism, even the current mutation of it, will die.
Unless the illusion of freedom is more useful than the reality of fascism.
35ft6
10-28-2007, 02:36 PM
Precisely. This is nothing now except for now they're telling us they're faking it. Soon this method will be accepted.It's like how the Bush administration would leak something to the press on Wednesday, than on Sunday talk about how, say, The New York Times even said it. Or them paying companies to produce informercials that look like real news segments to shill their worldview. By comparison, this Fema thing is relatively harmless. Americans can generally immediately propaganda for what it is in foreign countries but they can't smell the BS right under their noses.
10sfreak
10-28-2007, 08:07 PM
It's like how the Bush administration would leak something to the press on Wednesday, than on Sunday talk about how, say, The New York Times even said it. Or them paying companies to produce informercials that look like real news segments to shill their worldview. By comparison, this Fema thing is relatively harmless. Americans can generally immediately propaganda for what it is in foreign countries but they can't smell the BS right under their noses.

Yes, you're right of course...none of this stuff was done by the Caligula, er, clinton administration...
atatu
10-28-2007, 08:36 PM
Yes, you're right of course...none of this stuff was done by the Caligula, er, clinton administration...

Your response is almost as lame as FEMA's news conference....
35ft6
10-29-2007, 01:28 AM
Yes, you're right of course...none of this stuff was done by the Caligula, er, clinton administration...This is a blatant example, but, essentially, staged political briefings have been going on for a long time. This administration has taken to new heights though. Happy? It's a matter of degree.
Serve em Up
10-29-2007, 03:49 AM
Get rid of FEMA and fully fund the national guard and The Red Cross. FEMA is another reason why the federal government should be kept small. They are inept, costly, and ineffective. Always have been.
Ben42
10-30-2007, 10:55 AM
Get rid of FEMA and fully fund the national guard and The Red Cross. FEMA is another reason why the federal government should be kept small. They are inept, costly, and ineffective. Always have been.


Ahhh, the typical conservative ploy. Tell everyone that government is inept, get elected, appoint inept administrators, say, "See!!! Look how inept government is."