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Fri, Nov 09 2007
In the event of an emergency, pull the handle for a fake press conference
Well, we all know you can't make up better news than the real news brings forth, particularly when the real news is about keeping out real journalists and inserting fake ones. I can't imagine how folks really think they will get away with such things. They might have saved face a wee bit if they had told everyone that they had no time for a real press conference and had simply issued a simple statement until they could make time for a real press conference. I suppose one can hope to fool some of the people some of the time, or at least once. Fooling anyone may be more difficult after everyone discovers your game.
If such a government agency exists mainly to operate as one big public relations machine, we might be better off cutting off the funding for that agency, closing it down and spending our tax dollars on emergency worker programs that still spend most of their time and energy actually assisting people in emergencies.
posted at: 07:38 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
Well, we all know you can't make up better news than the real news brings forth, particularly when the real news is about keeping out real journalists and inserting fake ones. I can't imagine how folks really think they will get away with such things. They might have saved face a wee bit if they had told everyone that they had no time for a real press conference and had simply issued a simple statement until they could make time for a real press conference. I suppose one can hope to fool some of the people some of the time, or at least once. Fooling anyone may be more difficult after everyone discovers your game.
If such a government agency exists mainly to operate as one big public relations machine, we might be better off cutting off the funding for that agency, closing it down and spending our tax dollars on emergency worker programs that still spend most of their time and energy actually assisting people in emergencies.
posted at: 07:38 | category: /Politics | link to this entry
