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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...
1: Sludge
Report #65 – Killing The Silence
In This Edition: Killing The Silence - The real story behind the shooting of Wellington student Steven Wallace by a Police Officer on April 30th 2000 in the town of Waitara.
2:
Sludge
Report #66 – Steven Wallace’s Last
Words
Depending on whether you follow the Police version of events, or those of other eye-witnesses to the shooting of Waitara youth Steven Wallace on April 30th 2000, there are variant versions of just what Steven Wallace’s final words were.
3:
Sludge
Report #67 – Playing Monopoly On The NZ
Web
In This Edition: Xtra and Microsoft Playing Monopoly On The NZ Web - The Worst Portal In New Zealand Online Media - Xtra’s Attempts To Be Everything To Everybody - So What Should Be Done?
4:
Scoop
Feedback: Who Are True Public
Servants?
The Casino Control Authority has recently indicated that it will be seeking $126,500 from a group who opposed the Riverside Casino in Hamilton. This group is made up 14 Hamilton citizens and organisations, including a few local churches. These people ...
5:
HARD
NEWS 18/5/01 - Disquiet On The Westie
Front
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... if I've said it once, I've said it, well, more than once. This is a government destined to meet grief less for what it does than what it says. And that principle reached its peak this week with the messy business over the hitherto ...
6:
Howard's
End: Beyond Senior And Beyond Repair
If I hadn't heard it myself I would never have believed that in this country there is an undertone of impatience, a stated 'be gone with you', an odour of ageism wafting in the stench of air which surrounds us all. John Howard writes.
7:
LOTR
- In Depth Description Of The
Footage
So here I am. Peter Jackson just finished speaking and introducing the footage. Leo and Maurice of Lordoftherings.nl are to my left, and Harry and Joram are to my right. I'm ready to be wowed. I'm ready to have the realization of a dream come to life ...
8:
Stateside
with Rosalea: Dinosaur Botty
Coughs
Lately I've been wondering if I can get mates rates at the cryogenics lab downstairs in the building where I work. Man, I'd love to be around in 70 years' time to read the history books. Will 12.30pm, Friday 25 May 2001 be there? That's the time and ...
Sydney is in the middle of a very bad hang over. The economic slowdown continues. Job losses are hitting the professions, the tech sector and thus the affluent suburbs. There is a mood of listlessness, anxiety and dissatisfaction. Some Kiwis here have ...
10:
“Harry
Potter” Trailer Cinema Premiere
The theatrical trailer for the year’s most-anticipated family film - “Harry Potter & The Philosopher’s Stone” will make its cinema screen debut in New Zealand for the first time on Thursday, April 5.
11:
Government
Brings In GCSB Bill...
In May 2001 the Government finally introduced its long foreshadowed Bill to give legal existence to the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), our old friends who run the Waihopai spybase, and who have had no legislative basis at all ...
12:
British
Oil The Main Beneficiary Of Timor
Crisis
SCOOP NEWS ANALYSIS - British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook's, arrival in New Zealand prior to September's APEC forum caused Thailand Foreign Ministry official, Kobsak Chitikul, to ask, "Why is Mr Robin Cook here?" Britain is not a member ...
13:
Sludge
Report #64 - Damp Arrival For Energy Plan
It appears plans for dealing with the emerging United States energy crisis are, as forecast, destined to be delivered by US President George “Dubya” Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in the rain.
14:
Media
Flash - May 21, 2001
* KERRY PACKER heads this year's BRW 'Rich 200' with an estimated net worth of $6.2 billion. Other media and related industry rich boys and girl are RICHARD PRATT, paper, $3.3 billion; KERRY STOKES, Seven Network, $875 million; JOHN B. FAIRFAX and TIMOTHY ...
15:
Scoop
Archive: Scoop Images: Johnston's Hill
Panorama
Panoramic shots of Wellington from the summit of Johnston's Hill in Karori. Today is another beautiful day in Wellington, but the calm is expected to be broken shortly by the arrival of Cyclone Sose.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/44/88/200104110951.373b5aee.html
16:
Labour
Politicians Buy A New TV Channel
Spending at least $29 million on a new Government-owned Maori language television channel is a waste of money, ACT Broadcasting Spokesman MP Penny Webster said today.
17:
No
Merit In Mixed Messages
As part of a recently revealed government plan to cut the crime rate, Minister of Corrections, Matt Robson said; "If a woman was young, from a disadvantaged family, had little education, was substance dependent, socially isolated and had a number ...
18:
Research
The Answer To Agricultural Greenhouse
Gas
Research and development, not taxation, offers the best prospects for reducing methane emissions from sheep and cattle, says Pete Hodgson, Convenor of the Ministerial Group on Climate Change.
19:
National
Radio Midday Report
Steven Wallace – 767 Trouble – Terminal Crash – Dash-8 – Middle East Violence – Stolen Jade – Police Station Fire – Drinking ID – More Budget Flights – Picket Line Death – Academic Staff – Indonesian Crisis – Global Warming – Northland Grant
20:
ACT
Launches “Fight The Tax Grab” Webpage
ACT Finance spokesman Rodney Hide said today that ACT’s webpage set up to stop Michael Cullen’s retrospective tax grab on schools and tourist operators was proving a big hit.
21:
Export
Credit Office to open 1 July
The Government’s new export credit scheme will start operations on 1 July, Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Pete Hodgson announced today.
22:
Voters
Able To Enrol Online At Elections
Website
Eligible electors are now able to enrol and update their enrolment details online at the elections website www.elections.org.nz.
23:
West
Coast Mine Proposal Shows Need for DoC
Review
The Government must urgently conduct a total review of the Department of Conservation's role, ACT Conservation Spokesman MP Gerry Eckhoff said today.
If it's not one new tax, it's another for the Finance Minister to explain, National's Bill English said today.
25:
Anti-Smoking
Fanatics Going Too Far
Extreme zealots in the government are over-stepping the mark by trying to ban smoking in bars and restaurants, ACT leader Richard Prebble says.
26:
Sludge
Report #60 – Free Tiger Woods
NOTE: Authors of this report will be anonymous and wide ranging, and occasionally finely balanced. Indeed you are invited to contribute: The format is as a reporters notebook. It will be published as and when material is available. C.D. Sludge can ...
27:
Scoop
Images: Hobbiton By The
Water
Scoop's Hobbit strikes again. This time the furry fellow with a flair for photography has produced another - never seen before - shot of Hobbiton in the the Waikato. Showing it in the sun, before it was burned down. It looks like it was a tranquil and magical ...
28:
Secret
Workplace Reviews Must Be Made Public
National's Industrial Relations Spokesperson Lockwood Smith is calling on the Government to release immediately the secret reviews it's been carrying out on key industrial relations issues.
29:
Scoop
Images: Lake Hobbitton - Another
View
Scoop's Hobbit strikes again. Yet another - never seen before - shot of Hobbiton in the the Waikato. Showing the other side of the millhouse pictured in an earlier shot, in the sun, before it was burned down. Hobbit houses can be seen across the ...
30:
BUDGET
2001: Development work in
Northland
Regional development initiatives announced today totalling $700,000, will go a considerable way to helping Northland people make the most of their region’s potential.
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Publisher
Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.
CONTACT ALASTAIR THOMPSON
- Email - alastair@scoop.co.nz
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