GordoCoVille
Who said the conclusions to be drawn B.C. premier Gordon Campbell's upcoming 'Conversation on Health' weren't way, way, way foregone already?
After all, if they weren't, why would his minions be doing things like this?
Island health care workers are worried the health authority is trying to put a stop to their participation in the provincial government’s Conversation on Health.
Employees have been ordered by the Vancouver Island Health Authority not to speak with the media or politicians without its permission and must go through the communications department for all incoming requests.
And as an example of the Vancouver Island Health Authority's communications department's desire to obfuscate with double-speak, get a load of this response:
VIHA spokeswoman Suzanne Germain said the memo the health authority sent out regarding employees speaking with the media or politicians is by no means a gag order.
“This memo went out before the conversation on health care was announced,” she said.
“It was a reminder, if you wish, that inquiries should be channeled through communications.”
Sure thing, Ms. Germain.
And curtailing whistleblowers has nothing to do with it because, if we were to take your words at face value, it we would have to conclude that a gag is only really a gag if it makes you laugh hysterically and/or if it chokes you to death.
Right?
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Paul Willcocks also has good piece up on this. In his comment thread I suggested that the only way to really deal with this is to force working journo's to completely ignore the flack-hacks at all times, which is what the author of the quoted piece, Jenn Marshall, writing in the Nanaimo News Bulletin, did in spades. Good for her.
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