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#1 User is offline   Winstonm 

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Posted 2007-October-27, 07:32

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government's main disaster-response agency apologized on Friday for having its employees pose as reporters in a hastily called news conference on California's wildfires that no news organizations attended.  No actual reporter attended the news conference in person, agency spokesman Aaron Walker said.

FEMA press employees posed the questions for Johnson.... 




Is there a shred of dignity left anywhere in the U.S. government?
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Posted 2007-October-27, 07:42

This reminds me of an incident while I worked for the information service of the Danish ministry of transportation. We received a visit from the minister. As usual, our agents were just drinking coffee and playing computer games. I (and two colleagues) was told to pretend to be customers so that it looked as if our agents had something to do.
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Posted 2007-October-27, 10:26

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Posted 2007-October-27, 10:33

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Posted 2007-October-27, 10:51

FEMA is under the Department of Homeland Security - so I guess holding a staged news conference is to make sure no al-Qaeda operatives sneak in dressed as reporters and ask embarassing questions.
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Posted 2007-October-27, 12:08

Who filmed it then?
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Posted 2007-October-27, 12:22

How do we know it even happened? Did they leak to the press that they had a phoney news conference?

Kind of reminds me of "if a tree falls in the forest..."
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Posted 2007-October-27, 17:35

pclayton, on Oct 27 2007, 01:08 PM, said:

Who filmed it then?

Can't say who ran the camera but a live feed was carried by Fox.
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Posted 2007-October-27, 17:41

Echognome, on Oct 27 2007, 01:22 PM, said:

How do we know it even happened?  Did they leak to the press that they had a phoney news conference?

Kind of reminds me of "if a tree falls in the forest..."

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U.S. agency apologizes for fake wildfires news conference

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Friday, October 26, 2007

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government's main disaster-response agency apologized on Friday for having its employees pose as reporters in a hastily called news conference on California's wildfires that no news organizations attended.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, still struggling to restore its image after the bungled handling of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, issued the apology after The Washington Post published details of the Tuesday briefing


In this case, The Washington Post happened to be in forest when the tree fell.
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Posted 2007-October-27, 21:59

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government's main disaster-response agency apologized on Friday for having its employees pose as reporters in a hastily called news conference on California's wildfires that no news organizations attended.  No actual reporter attended the news conference in person, agency spokesman Aaron Walker said.

FEMA press employees posed the questions for Johnson.... 


Winstonm, on Oct 27 2007, 03:41 PM, said:

In this case, The Washington Post happened to be in forest when the tree fell.

Explain how these two mesh please... The bold was made by yourself.
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Posted 2007-October-28, 02:58

Ehh, isn't Winston speaking of two different cases here - one new and one some two years ago?
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Posted 2007-October-28, 04:53

Echognome, on Oct 27 2007, 10:59 PM, said:

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government's main disaster-response agency apologized on Friday for having its employees pose as reporters in a hastily called news conference on California's wildfires that no news organizations attended.  No actual reporter attended the news conference in person, agency spokesman Aaron Walker said.

FEMA press employees posed the questions for Johnson.... 


Winstonm, on Oct 27 2007, 03:41 PM, said:

In this case, The Washington Post happened to be in forest when the tree fell.

Explain how these two mesh please... The bold was made by yourself.

No reporters were with the Watergate bugrlers during the breakin but they reported about it after it occured. The same thing happened here - no reporters made it to the FEMA news conference but The Washington Post reported this after it had occured.

Maybe a better way to have put it would have been: if you want the tree in the forest to remain unknown, it is best not to televise its fall.
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Posted 2007-October-28, 05:01

skaeran, on Oct 28 2007, 03:58 AM, said:

Ehh, isn't Winston speaking of two different cases here - one new and one some two years ago?

Nope. This is recent. The Washington Post link: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...7102502488.html
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