Govt PR machine a "bullshit factory", says Halifax Examiner

"This is the Age of Bullshit," writes Halifax Examiner editor Tim Bosquet, "And nowhere is the art of bullshit practiced more thoroughly than in communications offices. The one segment of government that sees increased budgets and growing staffs is communications, and yet the messages become more muddled, the strategies 'too clever by half'”, according to Cape Breton University political scientist Tom Urbaniak.

In Local Xpress (online news by striking Herald editorial staff) Michael Gorman surveys the track record of disastrous public policy changes coupled with even more disastrous communications strategies — dating back to the PC government’s changes to auto insurance, through the NDP government’s cancelling of the Yarmouth ferry, and on to the current Liberal government’s axing of the Film Tax Credit and changes to Pharmacare.