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September 29, 2005

Unclear on the Concept

I know it's an underfunded government agency, so it's not like they've got a lot of money to throw around on fancy-schmancy graphic design. And I know that people have been beating up on them pretty hard in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, so maybe I should cut FEMA some slack. But after seeing last night's Daily Show, I can't help but point out this graphic, still live on their website1 as of this evening. Voila:

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Of course, any disaster relief effort should begin with Response followed by Recovery, but FEMA goes farther with the additional steps of Mitigation, Risk Reduction, Prevention, and Preparedness...which leads right back to Disaster!

Not cool. Someone clearly needs to read up on their Tufte.

1 - Actually, I love that they haven't taken the graphic down yet. It's been almost 24 hours since the report appeared on the Daily Show; someone there must have heard about it. I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt by believing that they are too busy right now to worry about updating their web site.
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Comments

The moment of Zen almost made me spit my beer out! Good old Bill Bennett!

Posted by: Seth at September 30, 2005 08:22 PM
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