Gee whiz, FEMA fakes it's "news". I'm sooooo shocked. NOT.
[hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"]Oct. 29 — A fake news conference at the [a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/f/federal_emergency_management_agency/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), U.S."]Federal Emergency Management Agency[/a] has produced, along with outrage and ridicule, its first personnel casualty.Last Tuesday, two days before Mr. Philbin left the FEMA job, the agency's deputy administrator held a televised news conference about the California fires where members of the agency's staff, pretending to be reporters, asked him a series of easy questions.[/p]"...officials gave reporters only 15 minutes' notice to show up at agency headquarters and then set up a telephone line that allowed them to listen in, but not ask questions."[/p][hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"][a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/washington/30fema.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin"]http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/washington/30fema.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin[/a]
