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How not to hold a press conference
Ohio and federal environmental officials staged a press conference at the Statehouse Wednesday June 3 that could be used as a case study in a public relations textbook on what not to do.
First, nobody told reporters about it until after it was scheduled to start. Second, nobody brought press releases.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson came to Ohio to announce the state would receive $5 million in federal stimulus to retrofit 280 diesel trucks to make them cleaner and Hamilton County would receive $1 million to retrofit 60 school buses.
As she spoke on an outdoor plaza on the Statehouse grounds, a firetruck siren drown out part of her remarks and wind blew over some of the displays. And half a dozen protesters complaining about mountaintop coal mining positioned themselves to get in the TV camera shots.
At least it wasn’t raining.
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