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Friday, May 04, 2007

Crime is out of control and the 2007 budget is in control
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From:	Media Monitoring Project
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Subject:	Crime is out of control and the 2007 budget is in control

Dear MMP,

Two of the arguably more prominent stories for the month of February was crime and the budget speech. The Media Monitoring Project asks what the role of media is in covering these issues and we monitored media performance.

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