Maybe you were one of the 11,472 visitors who hit 15,026 pages at Bond Papers during July. If you were, odds are you enjoyed these, the 10 most popular pages from July, 2010:
- General and master corporal face charges over relationship (so far out in front, it was in another month)
- Five years of secret talks on the Lower Churchill: the Dunderdale audio. (The mainstream continues to ignore the big story but the public won’t)
- Bristol collapses owing more than $6.0 million
- And no fish swam (helped no doubt by a mention on the Fisheries Broadcast)
- When will she get the flick?
- HQ and NALCOR on same side in US transmission line play
- Court docket now online
- Scientists find new sea creatures near deepwater exploration sites
- Telly web design sucks, kills RSS feed to popular content
- There is a green hill (not so far away)
The number one story was a national story and involved illicit sex. That’s two massive boosts for it right there.
Bur the surprise second is the story the mainstream media have completely ignored since it broke last September. They haven’t even mentioned it once, yet it is absolutely true and no one has even tried to refute it. Well, they may have ignored it but people are clearly very interested in finding out that Danny Williams spent five years secretly trying to sell Hydro-Quebec an ownership stake in the Lower Churchill, without any redress on the Churchill Falls contract.
In the end it was no sale and not for any other reason than they just weren’t that into him. They had other things to do. And everything else Danny’s uttered since last July on the Lower Churchill and Quebec is just plain ole bullshit.
Anyone who thinks fisheries policy isn’t interesting to people might want to take note of Number 4 on July’s hit parade. It’s all about fisheries policy. What’s even more remarkable is that it doesn’t endorse the bullshit – there’s that word again – that infests the Gus and Ryan show on commercial radio.
The court docket post remains popular, not to mention testimony to the number of lawyers who drop by Bond’s corner for a read and a larf.
The last post worth a special mention is the one about the Telegram’s site redesign. There’s another post in the works on this but it’s on hold until the Telly crew manage to sort themselves out. Hint: a week is way too long to leave the blogs totally shagged up; the positives on the new design are fast being overshadowed by the cock-ups.
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