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I agree with Analog. The boss is being forthcoming and letting everyone know the problems. I have 3 people that work directly for me on my production team. The easiest way to spread any news is to get them all together. The easiest way to spread disinformation or sow the seeds for problems is to tell people individually.
If I told each of my employees the same thing separately, I can guarantee that each time would be slightly different. I tailor each message to the individual either consciously or unconciously, and people would walk away with different ideas of what was really going on. By gathering everyone together, everyone gets the same information at the same time and there are no cabals of people jockeying for position. If things are going badly, there's a definite potential of people trying to undercut one another to stay on board. As a manager, that's the last kind of distraction you want.
In other words, it's not your boss's fault that you don't have the balls to speak up and ask questions or object to the new tasks. If you don't want to show him up, object in private, but pissing and moaning behind his back that he hasn't confided in you seems a little juvenile to me, but maybe I've misinterpreted what's really going on.
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