Worried about looking 'ignorant,' Team Sebelius seeks media help

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Washington Examiner:

Concerned that senior leaders, including Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, “can be left ignorant and unaware” of what Congress and the public are saying about them and their policies, officials at the agency in charge of Obamacare are seeking help to track everything the media is writing about the Department of Health and Human Services.

 

The sprawling department that is supported by a large communications shop is collecting the names of private companies that can produced a customized daily digest of news better and more complete than the one HHS aides currently compile.

 

The reason, according to HHS, is that there is too much media to monitor and the department’s public affairs office is having trouble meeting deadlines and producing readable summaries. What’s more, like with the website issues plaguing Obamacare, the internal staff has had difficulty getting their news summaries to work on mobile devices.