Quote from Washington Post Article : Asked about this, Widomski said: "We had been getting mobbed with phone calls from reporters, and this was thrown together at the last minute." But the staff did not make up the questions, he said, and Johnson did not know what was going to be asked. "We pulled questions from those we had been getting from reporters earlier in the day." Despite the very short notice, "we were expecting the press to come," he said, but they didn't. So the staff played reporters for what on TV looked just like the real thing. Hah - that's class. They should of used a text-to-speech program instead. Dr Sbaitso: Tell me about your fires.
"We threw it together at the last minute and no one showed up. What gives!?" Sounds kinda like New Orleans, now that I think about it.