Trust in local government tends to be higher than state and federal government, but is there a relationship between decline in trust and the rise of PR in government?
That’s too big of an issue to address on a Friday afternoon.
Instead, here’s a story from Cranston, R.I., where a male van driver for a government organization dressed up like a woman for the photo op about a snow-shoveling program for senior adults. After news media blew the whistle, the head of the program resigned.
If you can’t trust government to do something so obviously goofy for a photo op for a program designed to help people, the public can’t help but wonder what happens when nobody’s looking.