Bring on the spinners

Andrew Bolt pointed out today that the Mexican Plod have 101 spin doctors.

I read last week that RailCorp had 35 PR positions. The only reason that got in the paper was because it appeared that most of the incumbents in those positions had recently left or been sacked.

I was amazed to find that RailCorp had 35 spin doctors. Back in the early 1990's, I knew a bloke that did media relations stuff for CityRail. There was him and one other bloke doing it all. Fast forward to 2007 and there are 35.

No wonder the silly buggers are frantically running around the CBD trying to lease new office space. Head office is expanding faster than Al Gore's head.

My point though is that RailCorp has been getting crappy press for the last few years. Clearly they need to triple the number of spin doctors. 35 is just not enough to hold back the bad news.