FEMA obsessed with its image and PR efforts, while hurricane victims suffered

Oh, FEMA, when will the bad press stop? A report released last week by a federal inspector general blasts the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for worrying more about its image than actually—you know—looking out for peoples’ well-being. “The highly critical 80-page report paints the picture of an agency that was overly concerned with its image to the detriment of the public. FEMA, the report says, reacted to [a] health threat only after media attention ‘grew to dis…

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