Book review: The silence of government and media in Kill the Messengers

Mark Bourrie chronicles the Harper government’s approach to information, communication and control. [[{“fid”:”3729″,”view_mode”:”default”,”fields”:{“format”:”default”,”field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]”:””,”field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]”:””},”type”:”media”,”link_text”:null,”attributes”:{“height”:”2780″,”width”:”1842″,”style”:”width: 200px; height: 302px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px; float: right;”,”class”:”media-element file-default”}}]]Mark Bourrie, Kill the Messengers: Stephen Harper’s Assault on Your Right to Know (HarperCollins, 2015). Hardcover, $32.99 By Siri Agrell On the last day of my first job in politics, I sat down…