Five Points for FEMA to Consider to Avoid Gross Stupidity
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It seems that, in light of the fiasco with the faked news conference, FEMA is examining its procedures with regard to how it deals with the press. In order to save FEMA months of internal review and a huge expenditure of human resources, here are five simple points to implement and to remember:
1. Fake news conferences are not a good idea.
2. Real reporters ask the questions.
3. FEMA answers the real reporters’ questions truthfully.
4. FEMA undertakes to learn the role of an unfettered press corps in a democracy.
5. If there should be any doubt, FEMA should consider consultation with a high school civics teacher - post haste.
It is a five point policy that is easy to set as a non negotiable operational procedure. High school civics teachers are easy to find. No doubt they are listed presently in some secret government data base.
Catherine Forsythe
Director of Operations
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[tags]fema, reporters, press conferences, high school civics, data base[/tags]
One Comment
Russ
November 1st, 2007
at 9:32am
I think its very easy to criticize, scraping news stories from the web to fit your slant.
Anybody publishes a different opinion than yours must be stupid or crooked.
What happened to New Orleans was poised to happen for many years. They got a lot of money from the fed gov to fix the problem with flooding. They used the money to pay for police that didn’t exist. The rest disappeared.
This is just another way to slam the administration and call it fake news.