Who was saying journos were in the best position to communicate for the government?
Sailor Sam
peterwn
> http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3042470/Corkery-hits-back-at-gangster...
Police PR people are different from other PR people. Rather than
promote good PR fot the police, their role is to try and control and
regulate the media concerning police matters, and they can apparently
get pretty nasty about it.
I had a run-in with a police civilian worker on a certain matter years
ago. He was a nasty bullying piece of work. I suspect he was an ex cop
or a current cop employed in a civilian role (the police used to swear
in some of their civilian workers so they can be paid more - perhaps
they still do).
Although I had no time for all the PR wonks hired by Labour they in
general are a different kettle of fish from the police ones.
Sailor Sam
> On Nov 9, 7:37 am, Sailor Sam <hiho...@merry.oh> wrote:
>> http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3042470/Corkery-hits-back-at-gangster...
>
> Police PR people are different from other PR people. Rather than
> promote good PR fot the police, their role is to try and control and
> regulate the media concerning police matters, and they can apparently
> get pretty nasty about it.
>
I am not quick to doubt you, but I would love to see a cite or two.
> I had a run-in with a police civilian worker on a certain matter years
> ago. He was a nasty bullying piece of work. I suspect he was an ex cop
> or a current cop employed in a civilian role (the police used to swear
> in some of their civilian workers so they can be paid more - perhaps
> they still do).
>
> Although I had no time for all the PR wonks hired by Labour they in
> general are a different kettle of fish from the police ones.
Transparent government comes from the government communicating what it
is doing, not from journos being lucky enough to ask the right questions.
hellicopter
Good government, self-correcting, self-aware, fearful governments,
will always let journos know in advance of matters getting out of
hand, its called integrity by some, self-serving by others, but all good.
The problem is journalists like the attention of the politicians
and need them. So journalist have to cover later the missed
communications politicians didn't stress quite as hard as they should
of (for good and bad reasons). So we see Guyon running around
blessing the ground Key walks on before Key passes over.
Key has played Guyon, and its woeful that TVNZ has not replaced
Guyon as their chief robot covering National.