Taxpayers are paying - for the hundreds of spin doctors employed by this Ardern government to hoodwink NZers.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political...vernment-by-pr
Excerpt : "She says, "In my 20-year plus time as a journalist, this Government is one of the most thin-skinned and secretive I have experienced."
Excerpt : "In her latest column, Vance identifies a big part of the problem as being the increased number of communications staff hired by government to massage the media and produce good public relations: "We are up against an army of well-paid spin doctors. Since the current Government took office,
the number of communications specialists have ballooned. Each minister has at least two press secretaries. (Ardern has four). In the year Labour took office, the Ministry for the Environment had
10 PR staff. They now have 18. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade more than
doubled their staff - up to 25. MBIE blew out from
48 staff to 64." She points out that the rebranded NZ Transport Agency, now Waka Kotahi,
has increased its PR staff from 26 to 72."