City Registers Media At LRT News Conference

Well this should be an interesting exercise in bullfeathers and bafflegab.

This from the organization that said the Transportation Safety Board agreed that the Confederation Line was safe when in fact the board said no such thing.

Now the city will put the provincial light-rail inquiry in its place, whatever that might be. Perhaps there will be a twisted precise of this meeting like all the ones from the city summarizing the LRT inquiry activity for the day.

Maybe there will be lies such as in some of the city testimony at the light-rail inquiry.

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And your agent sees below that the media must be registered to talk to the anointed ones. It’s funny but they don’t do this for federal cabinet ministers but then maybe the city is much more important than them. In fact, in my experience the city is the only governmental organization that does such a thing unless under the most unusual of circumstances.

The city has no business deciding who should come to its precious spinning at press conferences. The media relations department is dangerously close to classifying what is real media and what is not. Governments in a free society have no business doing this. But then utilitarianism rules at city hall rather than ethics.

Registering the media for press conferences is proof positive that the communications department has more people than it needs.

When Mayor Mark Sutcliffe begins cutting staff, perhaps he should start in communications.

Does your agent sound a bit jaded? Perhaps that’s what happens when you deal with the spin doctors at city hall for more than a couple of decades.

The city press release is below:

The City of Ottawa is inviting media to attend a technical briefing on the action plan to respond to the recommendations from the public inquiry into Stage 1 of Ottawa’s Light Rail Transit system. City staff will be available to answer questions.

Date: Wednesday, April 19

Time: 2 pm

Location: Andrew S. Haydon Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West and on the City of Ottawa’s YouTube channel.

Media will be able to attend the meeting and ask questions after the technical briefing ends and Councillors have finished asking staff their questions. 

RSVP: This meeting will accommodate in-person media and registration is required. Please contact medias@ottawa.ca by Tuesday, April 18 at 4 pm to confirm attendance.

Residents will be able to watch the technical briefing and subsequent media availability on the City’s YouTube channel.

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