Here you go some government fake news, but they fessed up right away. How unusual.
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| posted by Zonk on Saturday October 27, @03:25 (United States) |
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[0]theodp writes "The Federal Emergency Management Agency's No. 2
official apologized Friday for leading a staged news conference Tuesday
[1]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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