Nbadan
11-27-2007, 02:43 AM
Another Bogus 'Press Conference' Revealed, This Time at Homeland Security
Published: November 26, 2007 3:25 PM ET
WASHINGTON The Federal Emergency Management Agency's fake October news conference wasn't a first.
A Homeland Security public affairs official acted like a reporter asking questions during a briefing in San Antonio in January 2006.
A Homeland Security Department investigation found that an official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement asked a question during that news conference. A Homeland Security letter to House Homeland Security Chairman Bennie Thompson
The ICE official was standing with about 12 reporters but didn't identify herself when she posed the question, Homeland says the employee was verbally reprimanded for asking the question after the news conference.
Unlike the recent FEMA incident, the ICE official was advised against asking the question but asked anyway and didn't identify herself as staff. San Antonio reporters knew she was a public affairs official at the time.
The incident came to light during a Homeland Security investigation of an October 23rd incident. Reporters that day were given 15 minutes' notice for what turned into a staged question & answer briefing with a FEMA deputy administrator about the California fires. No genuine journalists attended, although they were given a conference call number they could use to listen in but not ask questions.
Editor and Publisher (http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003677593)
They have paid reporters, shipped out promos disguised as news, faked news conferences, plastic (turkey) photo ops for Thanksgiving, even Gannon'ized the press corp and deceived at every turn.
As the bumper sticker says...if you ain't outraged yet, you aren't paying attention....
Published: November 26, 2007 3:25 PM ET
WASHINGTON The Federal Emergency Management Agency's fake October news conference wasn't a first.
A Homeland Security public affairs official acted like a reporter asking questions during a briefing in San Antonio in January 2006.
A Homeland Security Department investigation found that an official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement asked a question during that news conference. A Homeland Security letter to House Homeland Security Chairman Bennie Thompson
The ICE official was standing with about 12 reporters but didn't identify herself when she posed the question, Homeland says the employee was verbally reprimanded for asking the question after the news conference.
Unlike the recent FEMA incident, the ICE official was advised against asking the question but asked anyway and didn't identify herself as staff. San Antonio reporters knew she was a public affairs official at the time.
The incident came to light during a Homeland Security investigation of an October 23rd incident. Reporters that day were given 15 minutes' notice for what turned into a staged question & answer briefing with a FEMA deputy administrator about the California fires. No genuine journalists attended, although they were given a conference call number they could use to listen in but not ask questions.
Editor and Publisher (http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003677593)
They have paid reporters, shipped out promos disguised as news, faked news conferences, plastic (turkey) photo ops for Thanksgiving, even Gannon'ized the press corp and deceived at every turn.
As the bumper sticker says...if you ain't outraged yet, you aren't paying attention....