"Research the area you want to enter into within PR and comms, as each varies with regard to your day-to-day workload and future opportunities.
This kind of comms data "should attract greater safeguards", say the MPs, but they don't elaborate.
But is this a fair or vastly outdated view of NGO comms?
The committee members appear to acknowledge this themselves when they argue that any new law should differentiate between basic "comms data" –email addresses, phone numbers, etc – and "comms data plus", which "could reveal private information about a person's habits, preferences or lifestyle choices, such as website visited".
A year ago, NASA boosted two 1.0 models and a 2.0 version, which de-orbited after a week; PhoneSat 2.4 went up last November and remains circling despite expectations to the contrary (though its comms systems went erratic in January).
Peter Capaldi returns as Malcolm Tucker, the thinly-disguised Alastair Campbell comms Svengali, as do most of the cast of The Thick of It, the acclaimed television show on which this political satire is based (the plot, if it's possible to simply describe it, involves the machinations of a network of American and British politicos wrangling over how to go to war).
Cabinet Secretary Gus O'Donnell conducted an official review to confirm the bleeding obvious: that the Deputy PM's office was, in the words of PR Week, "underpowered in strategic comms".
To most comms professionals Oliver's obscurity was the point; after the Coulson scandal Cameron required someone who was less of a target for the opposition.
And anyway, they didn't have comms managers in the Middle Ages.
The document also catalogues the president's Secret Service teams and vehicles, including "counter-assault teams", a "comms vehicle", an "intel car" and a "hammer truck".
Still, as she deflected the interrogatory bullets fired at her by the Media Select Committee this week, former News International chief exec Rebekah Brooks pinged at least one stray round in the direction of No 11 Downing Street – suggesting that it was Gideon who had personally recommended the hiring of Andy Coulson as the Conservative Party's comms director in 2007.
