Embargoes are an effective tool to ensure an certain minimum depth of reporting, control timing and prevent misunderstanding causing negative publications. They

Embargoes are an effective tool to ensure an certain minimum depth of reporting, control timing and prevent misunderstanding causing negative publications. They can be used to implement some limited idea of fairness and they can be used to exercise control. Embargoes are a communications and marketing tool. Whether public institutions should value story telling over letting the facts stand for themselves is really the question. The culture today puts a lot value on stories...