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Thursday, August 10, 2006

VOCM News Headlines???

VOCM online headline....

"Rideout Fights To Keep Rural NL Alive"

Let's examine this one. What does the reader expect comes next?
Minister Rideout directs FPI to....
Minister Rideout warns Ottawa that fish quota's must stay in NL or....
Minister Rideout announces province will expropriate Abitibi assets....
Minister Rideout announces province won't stand for cattle car service from Marine Atlantic....
Minister Rideout tells Ottawa province will fight abandonment of Gander Airport....

Those are a few I could think of - how about you?

What is actually said to back up the bold headline?
He tells delegates at the Change Island Symposium on Coastal Communities that the province must do what it can, big or small jobs created and protected...and the chaser is the government gave the conference $7500 to help with their costs.

Hey VOCM let's keep an eye on those headlines lest they turn into campaign slogans for elections.

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