[Gulf News] Kuwait's government is mulling breaking up its information ministry, a local newspaper has said.Believers in a free press would regard that as a good thing...
"Both the government and the parliament are now convinced that the ministry should be dismantled after it has become overloaded with tasks," a parliamentary source told Al Anba daily.
If it's got lots and lots of tasks wouldn't that be an argument in favor of expanding it?
That sounds like a White House staffer ...
"The ministry's laws and regulations have failed to match the current information technology and the best option for the country is to break it up," the unnamed source said.
So they have lots of tasks and they're not very good at accomplishing them.
An authority in charge of visual and audio media should be set up instead, the lawmakers and officials said.
To prepare YouTubes and podcasts?
According to the source, the government has approved the idea, but has requested further time to study the possibilities.
There are lots of nations without ministries of information. Usually they're distinguished by how much information actually flows...
The ministry last year came under intense fire from thousands of Kuwaitis after a private television station aired a programme they deemed "highly offensive."
If they'd had more than one channel they could have switched it...
Merits questioned
Lawmakers called for the sacking of the minister and questioned the merits of his ministry.
So the bitch isn't that information's not flowing, but that some people don't like the information that is flowing...
Bahrain in July cancelled its information ministry, replacing it with a media authority. Qatar and the UAE took similar moves.
It's not generally known, but when the United States was young we had an information ministry, too. President Washington disbanded it and replaced it with a duck. Sometime in November of the first year of his first term he and his cabinet ate the duck.