3–26.
If the public affairs office fully
cooperates with the news media
during a disaster, what will be the
most likely result?
1.
Reporters will report the facts
objectively
2. Reporters will report the facts
accurately
3.
Both 1 and 2 above
4.
Reporters will look for
secondary sources of
information
3-27.
When releasing information to the
news media during a disaster
situation, a PAO should make it a
standard operating practice to take
which of the following actions?
1.
Check and recheck the facts
2.
Help the news media meet
deadlines by providing damage
estimates based on conjecture
3.
Release the names of personnel
assisting in disaster relief
operations
4.
Clear all facts with CHINFO
before releasing them
3-28.
Anticipating the needs of the news
media by getting them the facts is
known by what term?
1.
Venture
2.
Adulation
3.
Initiative
4.
Control
3-29.
The circumstances surrounding a
disaster are often negative in
connotation and sometimes painful
for a PAO to admit. How should the
PAO solve this problem when dealing
with the news media?
1.
Release only the facts
favorable to the Navy and
command
2.
Maintain complete honesty and
candor
3.
Avoid talking to the news media
4.
Refuse to assist the news media
in discovering the facts
3-30.
If a PAO allows a reporter access
to a disaster scene, which of the
following actions should he take to
maintain impartiality?
1.
Ask the reporter allowed access
to make his report available to
all reporters
2.
Issue a press release on the
access
3.
Make sure the reporter allowed
access gives the story to a
major wire service
4.
Allow similar access to all
r e p o r ts
3-31.
When there are too many reporters
at the scene of a big story, which
of the following procedures should
be used to gather information?
1.
Request the reporters to pool
certain information
2.
Allow all the reporters access
to the scene
3.
Have one of your JOs write a
news release
4.
Allow only wire service
reporters access to the scene
3-32.
Good taste in the release of
information or photographs of a
disaster is based on which of the
following standards?
1.
Personal evaluation
2. The Associated Press code of
ethics
3.
CHINFO regulations
4.
BUPERS regulations
3–33.
Before briefing reporters at the
CIB, either the senior JO or the
PAO should take which of the
following actions?
1.
Request the assistance of the
must senior PAO in the region
2.
Fax the proposed brief to
CHINFO
3.
Prepare a list of contingency
questions and answers for
probable news media inquiries
4.
ask reporters to submit their
questions in advance
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