{"id":1235,"date":"2010-01-19T10:56:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T15:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2010-01-19T10:57:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T15:57:43","slug":"interesting-cabinet-sidelight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/?p=1235","title":{"rendered":"Interesting cabinet sidelight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">There seems to have been no attempt to keep\u00a0the details of the cabinet suffle\u00a0tight &#8212; just the opposite. The leaks to various reporters were all correct. There are two possible explanations:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\">\u00a0<span style=\"&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">More media-staff links have developed\u00a0over time that have created sufficient trust\u00a0to allow staffers\u00a0to talk with some assurance they won&#8217;t be caught.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Wingdings;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"Wingdings;\"><span style=\"Ignore;\"><span style=\"7pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">More likely, it was a conscious media strategy. There\u2019s no better way to manage reporters than to feed them \u201cexclusively\u201d on\u00a0information they really need to impress their bosses. Cabinet shuffles are a \u201ctest\u201d in many news organizations of whether a reporter is &#8220;plugged in.&#8221; It s a low cost tradeoff for any\u00a0PMO that pays back in spades. And clearly\u00a0current circumstances\u00a0suggest that cultivating media more assiduously is something the government needs to do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\"><strong>Elly Alboim is an Associate Professor of Journalism and former CBC TV Parliamentary Bureau Chief who spent many cabinet shuffle eves trying to get the next day&#8217;s line up.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There seems to have been no attempt to keep\u00a0the details of the cabinet suffle\u00a0tight &#8212; just the opposite. The leaks to various reporters were all correct. There are two possible explanations: \u00a0More media-staff links have developed\u00a0over time that have created sufficient trust\u00a0to allow staffers\u00a0to talk with some assurance they won&#8217;t be caught. \u00a0More likely, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cusjc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}