APS' Executive Director of Communications Monica Armenta will address the Albuquerque Press Women's, link, luncheon today.
The title of her presentation;
"the World According to APS".
The substance of her presentation;
the truth according to APS.
The premise is fundamentally wrong.
Armenta and the leadership of the
APS are not entitled to a "version"
of the truth; not when they are
telling the truth on the people's dime.
As public servants, and as a matter of principle, they are
obliged to tell the people the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the ethically truth. Armenta, the voice of the
leadership of the APS, has an inescapable obligation to tell the
truth to stakeholders in a manner that recognizes and protects
the listener's right to autonomous decision making;
decision making based on an ethically redacted truth.
As an illustrative example;
the truth about the leadership of the APS andInterest holders cannot make an autonomous decision on
their commitment to Character Counts!.
administrative and executive role modeling of the APS
Student Standards of Conduct, because Monica Armenta
will not tell them the truth about the deliberate abdication
of the entire leadership of the APS from their responsibilities
as role models of the Student Standards of Conduct.
Though the student standards of conduct expressly and specifically prohibit
"... all acts, including half-truths, out-of-contextShe will allow the community to believe that the leadership
statements, and even silence, that are intended to
create beliefs or leave impressions that are untrue
or misleading."
holds itself accountable as role models of the student standards
of conduct. She will create beliefs and leave impressions that
are untrue and misleading.
If asked to tell the truth, she will stonewall; the APS
Communications Department's version of truth telling;
the version for which taxpayers pay nearly a million dollars
a year, the lions share of which is Monica Armenta's salary.
She will not tell the ethically redacted truth,
because it's not her job.
And then there's the whole character and courage thing.
photo Mark Bralley
1 comment:
Watching how Monica has performed in her duties as a PIO for APS makes me question everything that came out of her mouth at channel 4 when she was "reporting"--oops I mean reading the news. Her fictionalized accounts about APS makes for fine reading when sitting on the toilet because her words have no practical use other than to be used for toilet paper!
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