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Democratic government’s greatest strength is its greatest vulnerability. We are referring to the government’s extraordinary power to communicate. And this weekend we had a vivid lesson in what can go wrong.

We citizens don’t think about it much, but the government supplies citizens with an untold array of information. Federal government agencies tell us what the weather may be, how well our students are learning mathematics and English, and whether inflation is rising or falling. Government-created geological and survey data power the map apps we rely on when driving.

No one has come close to measuring the amount of information the government generates. It isn’t possible. We do know the federal government spent $1.5 billion on advertising last year.     

Advertising is a fraction of the government expenditure for information, however, and much of the government’s communications expenses are nowhere listed in the federal budget. We have no clue, for example, how much is paid to federal employees to produce communications nor do we know how much the president and executive agencies are spending on their YouTube channels. 

Think, for instance, how the communication aspects of government jobs have exploded. Bureaucrats who tweet and send out other social media messages serve in jobs that are not classified as “publicity” and don’t list any form of “communication” duties in their job descriptions.

The sheer amount of information is not, by itself, a problem. It is a plus. Government communications help keep government honest. We need to know, for instance through the Federal Register, what contracts the Pentagon has signed for new fighter jets or........

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