WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The main U.S. disaster-response agency apologized on Friday for having its employees pose as reporters in a news briefing on California's wildfires that no journalists 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.
(Reuters)
I suppose that FEMA employees posed questions at the "press conference" that they supposed journalists might ask if journalists had been present. It's a reasonable way to do things if accompanied by full disclosure before any sort of misunderstanding takes place. Just announce that the press conference was hastily planned, and let the speaker provide both the the question and the answer. Avoid entirely the charade of having employees provide the look of a normal press conference.
Regardless of the administration in charge, this was a boneheaded caper.
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