TODAY’S TOP SCOOPS
Howard’s End: Cut Out The Media Middle-man
SCOOP S.O.S. Feedback: Angelic Encouragement
SCOOP S.O.S. Feedback: Reg’s Challenge To Scoop Users And Readers
SCOOP S.O.S. – What Is The Future For Scoop? – We Want To Hear From You…
GE Free Campaigners Heartened By PM’s Comments
Big News: Australia Fair’s Boundless Plains Not To Share
Stateside: A Tale Of Two Californias
New Writings From The New Right
Media Flash: Oz Media Insider
Hard News Is Here!

TOP SCOOPS

Howard’s End: Cut Out The Media Middle-man

- Do you remember when there were only one or two newspapers and your father always argued out loud with the editorials? Do you remember the stories your local newspaper selected for you to read? Do you remember how control was exercised over what you and your family thought? Those days are gone - aren't they? See... Howard's End: Free Press For Free People [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00038.htm

SCOOP S.O.S. Feedback: Angelic Encouragement

I work in the corporate sector where real revenue is earned and am very happy to reciprocate Scoop's initiative by giving back. People and organisations who use Scoop should contribute. The Web is embryonic, traditional revenue models are immature; corporates are generally clueless when it comes to using the web, they pontificate over small budget promotions, angst over committing a few bucks, advertising agencies are often just as clueless about the web and wait for some traditional media metric to pop up into their tarp-screen before being confident about committing a toe in the water...

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00037.htm

SCOOP S.O.S. Feedback: Reg’s Challenge To Scoop Users And Readers

Dear Scoop Team, I think you all do a magnificent job! PLEASE KEEP IT UP! Someones got to keep them honest and inform us about what really goes on. I'm 72yrs old, have been an Activist for about 25 of these, and belong to several activist groups. I have only recently become computer literate and enjoy receiving my daily Scoops,( since I am a news junkie), but I like the real news, not the bullshit that gets printed in our daily newspapers, and shoveled into our minds by the tripe that comes out of the big box that has come to dominate many of or lives and persuades us to think THEIR WAY about many of the issues confronting us.

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00035.htm

SCOOP S.O.S. – What Is The Future For Scoop? – We Want To Hear From You…

- If you are a PR Professional, Politician, Parliamentary Secretary (press or otherwise), Corporate PR Person, Lobbyist, Local Authority Politician or Candidate, Cultural Professional, Public Policy Analyst, Public Servant, Librarian, Teacher, Political Scientist, Historian, Journalist, Researcher, Enquirer or any professional person who finds Scoop useful in your work… then CLICK HERE [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00033.htm

GE Free Campaigners Heartened By PM’s Comments

- Signs that Helen Clark may well preserve our options by keeping New Zealand free of GE releases are welcomed by GE Free New Zealand in Food and Environment. See... Hopeful Outlook For NZ's GE Free Agriculture [1] and Field Trials Must Be Included In Moratorium [2] MORE: - ACT - Government Set To Disregard $6.5M Report On GM [3] - Greens - No Good Going Half Pie On GE Release - Greens [4] - Greenpeace - Government Moratorium Must Include Field Trials [5]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0109/S00032.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0109/S00031.htm
[3] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0109/S00122.htm
[4] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0109/S00116.htm
[5] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0109/S00034.htm

Big News: Australia Fair’s Boundless Plains Not To Share

- How many asylum seekers were on the Tampa? It depends what paper you read, and on what day you read it. The Sydney Morning Herald said there were 436, two days later they said 438. Reuters have said 460. Another paper said 434. See... Big News: Asylum Seekers Seeking Asylum [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00040.htm

Stateside: A Tale Of Two Californias

- I moved to the Bay area in December 1999, at the height of enthusiastic hysteria about what the "new economy" was achieving, and there were homeless people, beggars, and the 2am Market Force Express here even then. See... Stateside With Rosalea: Make Work Pay [1] MORE: - Helen Clark - Asylum Seekers: PM Calls For International Action [2]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00039.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PA0109/S00130.htm

New Writings From The New Right

- Young Nationals in Wellington are among the first lucky people in the world to see the blockbuster short film “El Presidente Nick Archer”, premiering this week. See... The New Write 7 September 2001 [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0109/S00033.htm

Media Flash: Oz Media Insider

- RED HILMER presented ordinary results for John Fairfax Holdings on Friday (31.1 per cent drop in profit). The same day saw the closure of the badly-haemorrhaging Melbourne Express commuter paper experiment, which has already lost some millions. See... Media Flash - Sept. 10, 2001 [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00041.htm

Hard News Is Here!

- GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... it is Spring. The days are longer, the light is stronger and there is, in the words of the great sage Murray Mexted, "a tingle up the spine - a tingle in the loins!" Not that we want to talk about the rugby ...See... HARD NEWS 07/09/01 - The Refuge [1]

[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0109/S00034.htm

...BONUS PHOTO STORY....

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