We seem to be on a run of elected leaders getting caught out. Whether it’s a secret text message, the unsold shares or an unpaid restaurant bill, the stories eventually come out, usually when the spin doctors can no longer cover up the misbehaving politician’s antics. We were promised the most transparent Government ever. We received the opposite. With an election due in just three months, it’s time to ask the question: why are our politicians constantly misleading us? Our Government employs thousands of people in communications roles. Many of them are charged with manipulating and drip-feeding information so the bad news coming from the Government doesn’t seem quite so bad. Some of the misleading lines are now famous. Remember “we’re at the front of the queue for vaccines”? We weren’t. Or that “he was advised on six occasions to sell his shares”? Turns out it there were 16 messages about the shares. Notwithstanding the mystery text message, the current one goes, “there have never been any formal allegations put to me”. The former PM had the audacity to refer to her Government as the “single source of the truth” during the pandemic. It wasn’t. Her Government was also assembling a document named He Puapua, the existence of which was kept from their then coalition partner, and also from the voting public. Its existence and content only became apparent after the election was safely in the bag.
等着保罗木来洗地,COMMUNICATION OFFICERS, 上千个,高薪,也许叫PR,也许换个别的工作TITLE. X党控制舆论,今天HERALD终于来爆料了。
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