This is awesome.  FEMA is working hard to establish credibility after Hurricane Katrina, and one of their top priorities is looking good, no matter what it takes.  So, to discuss their response to the California fires, they held a press conference closed to all reporters (they could dial in) and open to their employees... acting as reporters. In other words - a staged press conference.

Check it.

My favorite line?

"It was absolutely a bad decision. I regret it happened. Certainly . . . I should have stopped it," said John P. "Pat" Philbin, FEMA's director of external affairs. "I hope readers understand we're working very hard to establish credibility and integrity, and I would hope this does not undermine it." [emphasis added]

Oh FEMA. The public absolutely loves you now.