George Wallace said:I would go with the 50/50 chance of getting excellent people in; RSS, the Schools, Recruiting, etc.
(In some cases, the uneducated/less than knowledgeable/inexperienced will think that their instructor/RSS/etc. may be excellent and knowledgeable when in fact they only have the gift of gab and can sling the bovine excrement in a convincing manner. It is only later in life, after gaining experience, that you may learn that they were not as excellent as you thought. > )
milnews.ca said:Coming all the way back to the Public Affairs angle of the OP, it's not just DND that's less than prompt or forthcoming with information for reporters.
Methinks we may be seeing more such stories following Christie Blatchford's "crack in the dam".
E.R. Campbell said:. . . But, in the end, governments and political parties need to inform and influence the public and the media is how we, the public, receive our information and it is the primary source of influence on our opinions.
. . . those in uniform, often (usually, in my opinion) mistrusted the media, thinking it was, broadly, ill-informed, narrow minded, superficial and biased against the military. My sense was that the media, generally, thought we were 'Colonel Blimpish' dinosaurs who were in bed with industry and so on.
There is, often, an unhealthy, even faintly incestuous relationship between the parliamentary press gallery (and its provincial and local equivalents) and ministers, MPs, officials and mayors and so on.
Rifleman62 said:ERC:
Surely you jest. The parliamentary press gallery hates the Conservative brand, and detest PM Harper. I would even say the parliamentary press gallery creates fluff, attempting to bring down the Conservatives. The useless CBC leads, with English/French TV, English/French Radio, English/French electronic print, Newsworld, Katty O'Malley and her type, etc. How many is that, daily manufacturing, distorting the truth?
Compared to the good olde USA, the WH press gallery, the major media producers are firmly in Obama's pocket, including being invited to state diners. Even with the recent Benghazi WH email revelations, it did not get one second on ABC, NBC, CBS, and MSNBC. The WH correspondents for the major media have finally twigged they have been continuously lied to, asked some questions, but their reports did not get air time.
Rifleman62 said:ERC:
Surely you jest. The parliamentary press gallery hates the Conservative brand, and detest PM Harper. I would even say the parliamentary press gallery creates fluff, attempting to bring down the Conservatives. The useless CBC leads, with English/French TV, English/French Radio, English/French electronic print, Newsworld, Katty O'Malley and her type, etc. How many is that, daily manufacturing, distorting the truth?
Compared to the good olde USA, the WH press gallery, the major media producers are firmly in Obama's pocket, including being invited to state diners. Even with the recent Benghazi WH email revelations, it did not get one second on ABC, NBC, CBS, and MSNBC. The WH correspondents for the major media have finally twigged they have been continuously lied to, asked some questions, but their reports did not get air time.
As someone who spent ~7 years fielding media calls (between 2 and 8 calls per week, with peaks gusting well above that) during Liberal and Conservative governments, I can tell you I didn't field any "hey, way to go, guys!" calls from Ottawa-based or other media.Rifleman62 said:Surely you jest. The parliamentary press gallery hates the Conservative brand, and detest PM Harper. I would even say the parliamentary press gallery creates fluff, attempting to bring down the Conservatives. The useless CBC leads, with English/French TV, English/French Radio, English/French electronic print, Newsworld, Katty O'Malley and her type, etc. How many is that, daily manufacturing, distorting the truth?