How can opposition battle Harper’s War Against Information when there’s no battle plan?

HillTimes:

There are an estimated 1,500 communications staffers working in ministers’ offices and departments, including 87 in the PMO and PCO.

(And don’t forget Sun Media, Postmedia, editorial board at Globe & Mail and 90 percent of the media.)

Soon after Mr. Harper won power, the Prime Minister’s staff started deciding which reporters could ask questions, skipping those they suspected weren’t in the government’s favour. Media access to the Prime Minister and his caucus, in general, has become minimal, with MPs and ministers kept on a short, silent leash.

“I think it’s tougher for reporters these days to get to something…I’m not so sure you’re getting the information you want, but you’re getting the information that they want to give you and nothing more,” said Liberal New Brunswick Senator Jim Munson, who worked as a reporter for around 34 years—24 of which he spent at CTV—before becoming director of communications in “the last year or so” of former prime minister Jean Chrétien’s mandate.

But more importantly, how have the NDP and the Liberals planned to not just counter attack this army of and against information with their own artillery? I don’t think information is even an important aspect of the opposition’s makeup. They’re still trying to find leaders let alone climb into the 21st century.

Unless the opposition begins embracing the information age, expect a Conservative majority for years, if not decades, to come.

Cross Posted at Let Freedom Rain