Thanks to Andreas and his link to a NA24 comment piece, I found back to this lost piece of news about the launch of the government’s long-awaited MinSide (MyPage) web portal. More about that later, when I can find the pin codes to log in. The point here is how the government buried this interesting piece of news by presenting it a) very close to Christmas, b) on the heels of an avalanche of other policy initiatives etc, and – the final nail in the coffin – c) the same day as the mother of all news stories in a petrokingdom broke.
As for b), the Friday before – I mean, Fridays are for hiding stories, right? – the government issued over 40 (!) press releases, and at least four of them contained interesting/important stories. Clearly, all the bureaucrats badly wanted to get some paper off their desks before Christmas. Somehow it’s sort of comforting to have a government so obviously lacking in spin doctors…