Message Discipline
Interesting article appearing in this week’s Hill Times, with another plaint from mainstream media about why they can’t talk to the PM. Allow me to quote an excerpt:
The PMO issues-management unit, whose job it is to get on top of breaking developments even before they break, was meeting every morning at 6 a.m. The schedule was so gruelling one of the young staffers complained to another he was going to bed at 9 p.m. each night, adding “and I’m not 80 years old.”
Liberals in the Opposition Leader’s Office, meanwhile, were beginning their daily strategy and tactics meetings at 8:30 a.m. as swine flu developments dominated Question Period. The comparison of schedules demonstrates the intensity of discipline that now envelopes Harper and his staff.
Actually, to be fair, another article elsewhere in the Times points out that the OLO is currently in a state of flux, what with the introduction of a new chief of staff and a laying off / replacement of people among the rank of file. So communications discipline among this group isn’t going to be prominent just yet.
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Lindsay Says:
They have a right to complain! Everyone important knows nothing ever happens in Canada or the World after 4PM Ottawa time.
The PMO issues-management unit has shift-work! Doesn’t the Hill Times realize the 6AM shift-split is part of the “Go Green” stimulus to save on the commute environmental costs?
What bothered me is that the PM enters through a side door. Isn’t there some place more secure than this? Vancouver spent millions to “protect” the Air India bomber and a pig farmer in a courthouse – surely the PM of a country at-war deserves better. I do hope he’s at least wearing a bullet-resistant jacket.
Posted on November 16th, 2009 at 6:34 pm