FEMA News Conference

MM, and everyone else, seems to be taking FEMA to task over the fake news conference. And I agree, having FEMA employees pose as reporters was a stupid idea. But also stupid is the main-stream media's single-minded determination to find problems with the effort in California, whether they exist or not. Sure there are problems. There are problems with any undertaking of this magnitude.

When the first coverage of the wildfires came out, I thought for sure that the MSM was going to go with: "yes, the job is getting done, but that's because the victims are rich white people and the government cares about rich white people". I'm still amazed that they're passing on the opportunity to call the administration evil and seizing on incompetent instead. I mean, it's a big government agency, you would expect some fumbling. And truth is, the media will find what they want to find.

So the honchos at FEMA looked at the past three days of belligerent questioning from the press and decided they wanted to get out some information without having to divert their energy to disproving wild accusations from belligerent reporters. Was that wrong? Yes, but so is the pack of wolves who call themselves journalists these days.