A little while back, our friends over at On the Media released a gripping and immersive reporting series about FEMA, the agency that is supposed to be there for all of us in the wake of disaster. In <a href="https://link.podtrac.com/2ogq6g7y" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">American Emergency</a> (https://zpr.io/MtrUmJU3yEMW), OTM investigates how the agency tasked with saving America became distrusted, despised… and defunded.
 Today we talk to On the Media co-host Micah Loewinger about how this project came out, what reporting went into making it happen, and play a couple of fun and truly surprising bits of the story that the OTM team uncovered. And it’s a story that highlights the ideal and promise of good government, right alongside the frustration with bureaucracy and mismanagement, and of course the undercurrent of profound mistrust in governmental power. 
As natural disasters are getting more extreme and less predictable, this series makes sense of that tangle, and provides a prescient peek into FEMA’s future.
Special thanks to <a href="https://link.podtrac.com/2ogq6g7y" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">On the Media</a> (https://zpr.io/MtrUmJU3yEMW).  To hear Micah in person, talking more about the complex history of FEMA, <a href="https://wnyc.org/events/otm-fema" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">join him on June 24th at WNYC's The Greene Space</a> (https://wnyc.org/events/otm-fema).
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