How the Pentagon Spun Hurricane Maria (real talking points memos!)

By artappraiser on Sat, 10/14/2017 - 1:26am |

U.S. officials inadvertently included a Bloomberg reporter on an internal email list. Here’s a glimpse into their bid to put relief efforts in a positive light.

By Christopher Flavelle @ Bloomberg Businessweek, Oct. 13

[...] Despite repeatedly alerting officials to the error, Bloomberg continued receiving the emails for five days. Those messages, each of which was marked “unclassified,” offer a glimpse into the federal government’s struggle to convince the public that the response effort was going well. That struggle was compounded by the commander-in-chief, and eased only when public attention was pulled to a very different disaster.

Below are passages from those messages, tied to the events that federal officials were trying to respond to [....]

URL:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-13/how-the-pentagon-spun-hurricane-maria