Government tries to bury embarrassing climbdown

We see that the government has adopted the time-honoured approach to dealing with bad news. We are referring to its embarrassing climbdown on the issue of the publication of directors' identity card numbers. It adopted a three-pronged approach: first, burying the decision not to proceed in verbiage, second, putting it out on the same day as other news likely to attract more attention, viz "The clean air plan for Hong Kong", and third, making the announcement on the afternoon of an exceptionally long weekend.

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