Burying bad news days were not invented by Labour

If you thooght that flooding the media with press releases to cover up bad news was a modern phenonoma then forget it.

Jack Shafer writes at Slate magazine how

Less than a week before President Richard Nixon resigned, White House communications chief Ken W. Clawson was working the phones with a daring plan to save his boss. He hoped that flooding reporters with strategic stockpiles of news from every Cabinet department just might be enough drive the impeachment news off the front page.