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6. And the media is invaluable in letting us see how those efforts are working, or not.

Reply to maxsolomon (Reply #4)

Wed Sep 27, 2017, 03:35 PM

Sep 2017

Without public scrutiny and the backlash of criticism that followed the government's poor response to providing disaster assistance, would the Trump administration bothered to do anything more? In just one example, the hospital ship Comfort wasn't set to be deployed to PR until Hillary publicly criticized Trump for not sending that critical resource to help those people.

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head of FEMA just issued a tweet that says the media hasn't been paying attention to PR hurricane [View all] spanone Sep 2017 OP

Even the Mayor of PR says FEMA is there and has water/supplies, but nobody is giving the order or MiniMe Sep 2017 #1

Compare the news coverage of Katrina, or even Houston and Florida, procon Sep 2017 #2

disagree 1000%. msnbc and cnn have been on top of this. spanone Sep 2017 #3

Elaborate. procon Sep 2017 #5

MSNBC has had a reporter there with updates every single day csziggy Sep 2017 #9

Did you notice the dates of what you posted? procon Sep 2017 #11

Do you understand how hard it is to get any story out of Puerto Rico? csziggy Sep 2017 #13

Reporters manage to get their stories out from all over the world, procon Sep 2017 #16

So what? maxsolomon Sep 2017 #4

And the media is invaluable in letting us see how those efforts are working, or not. procon Sep 2017 #6

Agreed. But this is the Feds criticizing the Media for... what? maxsolomon Sep 2017 #7

What does this have to do with the media? HipChick Sep 2017 #8

Somebody's to blame for the Trump administration's limp response gratuitous Sep 2017 #15

Don't they know that shit happened like 2 weeks ago? Old news... people want new news. JoeStuckInOH Sep 2017 #10

Actually No malaise Sep 2017 #12

I actually saw a twitter thread between ... SaschaHM Sep 2017 #14

Well it is actually Trump who hasn't been paying attention and intentionally sidetracking Glimmer of Hope Sep 2017 #17