carcrash Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 So at the same time that the Diana Report comes out, blair is questioned by the police over the cash for honours scandel and the government tell us that we are going to lose another 2500 post offices Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I was thinking the very same thing myself. Guaranteed and predictable headlines for 2/3 days on a topic totally under control. What a good day to bury bad news eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarSparkle Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 What with all this Litvinenko business, the Ipswich murders and now the Princess Diana Report, goodness only knows what's been going on under the radar this month StarSparkle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyhippy Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Are you insinuating that this has happened before? Ahem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heyesey Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Are you insinuating that this has happened before? Only for about forty years or so, that I know of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sutcliffe Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 I can't remember the subject, or the characters involved, but there was a wonderfully embarrassing leaked cabinet email that showed some underling suggesting that some bad news be leaked out on a particular day for just this reason - but it went badly wrong when the email was leaked out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carcrash Posted December 14, 2006 Author Share Posted December 14, 2006 It was on the day of the world trade centre attack. Jo Moore's 9/11 email. Within two hours of the hijacked planes smashing into the Twin Towers, Jo Moore sent an email to a colleague at the Department of Local Government, Transport and the Regions saying: "Today is now a very good day to get out anything we want to bury." It laid bare not only her own crass insensitivity but the cold stony heart of the New Labour spin machine. It ought to have brought about her immediate resignation and that of the Secretary of State, Stephen Byers, who had the appalling judgement to employ her. In fact both continued in their jobs until a similar furore blew up the following year over an attempt to bury more bad news under the cover of Princess Margaret's funeral, at which point the press decided it was now time to bury Jo Moore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarSparkle Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 It was on the day of the world trade centre attack. Jo Moore's 9/11 email. Within two hours of the hijacked planes smashing into the Twin Towers, Jo Moore sent an email to a colleague at the Department of Local Government, Transport and the Regions saying: "Today is now a very good day to get out anything we want to bury." It laid bare not only her own crass insensitivity but the cold stony heart of the New Labour spin machine. It ought to have brought about her immediate resignation and that of the Secretary of State, Stephen Byers, who had the appalling judgement to employ her. In fact both continued in their jobs until a similar furore blew up the following year over an attempt to bury more bad news under the cover of Princess Margaret's funeral, at which point the press decided it was now time to bury Jo Moore And that's only the tip of the iceberg - what a government official was stupid enough to commit to print. I bet those in government and their advisers positively drool with glee at such times, thinking what they can get away with while all eyes are elsewhere. I suspect there are a very large number of more subtle Jo Moores in politics and PR and the media. StarSparkle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sutcliffe Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 It was on the day of the world trade centre attack. Jo Moore's 9/11 email. Within two hours of the hijacked planes smashing into the Twin Towers, Jo Moore sent an email to a colleague at the Department of Local Government, Transport and the Regions saying: "Today is now a very good day to get out anything we want to bury." It laid bare not only her own crass insensitivity but the cold stony heart of the New Labour spin machine. It ought to have brought about her immediate resignation and that of the Secretary of State, Stephen Byers, who had the appalling judgement to employ her. In fact both continued in their jobs until a similar furore blew up the following year over an attempt to bury more bad news under the cover of Princess Margaret's funeral, at which point the press decided it was now time to bury Jo Moore Thank you - that's the one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtticusFinch Posted December 14, 2006 Share Posted December 14, 2006 Not only are the Diana report and the post office closures in the news today, but today is a Thursday. As Prime Minister's Question Time is every Wednesday, the best day to release news like this so it will be most forgotten by the next PMQs is on a Thursday. Politics eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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