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Yesterday's top 20 rating items (Hobbits excluded) on Scoop were...
1: Sludge
Report #18 – Who Shrunk The
Economy!
In This Issue: Honey! Who Shrunk The Economy! - Rupert’s Holidays For Hardworking Hacks - Richard Long Fails To Front For Todd Debate.
HOBBIT
STORIES....
2: Scoop
Images: The Guardian of Helms Deep...
19: Scoop
Images: WORLD EXCLUSIVE: BAG END!
20: Scoop
Images: And Not A Hobbit Was Stirring
3: A
Week Of It: Get Hard J.C.!
Not normally up before midday on Saturdays, one of this columnist’s frequent guilt twangs has been not continuing to check out John Campbell’s weekend slot on National Radio.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
Dover’s Early End ? Growth Up - Army Deserter - Ccormick Off Air - Murderous Attack – Chandra-Hills Death - Child Abuse Reporting – Sex Harresment - Pyschiatric Patient Battle - Rings Piracy
5:
Why
Gender/Race Relations Stories Run On And
On
Berkeley - Why do some stories, like the O.J. Simpson trial, the Thomas/Hill hearings or the Clinton/Lewinsky sex scandal, run on for months and even years, while other, ostensibly more important stories hardly get noticed by the news media?
6:
National's
debt chickens continue coming home
The Government is welcoming a new report from the Controller and Auditor-General which is heavily critical of the previous Government's failure to investigate the economic and social impact of the student loan scheme, Associate Education (Tertiary ...
7:
SCP
HOUSE: Questions Of The Day - 27
June
Today’s Questions concerned the subjects of:. Kyoto Protocol – Clark On Dover Samuels – Immigration Consultants – Children’s Trusts – Whale Sanctuary – Phillida Bunkle On John Howard – Airways Coup – ERB – Biodiversity – TEAC – Public Transport – Northland ...
8:
Howard’s
End: Behind The Fiji Coup
An select group of right-leaning elites were behind, not one, but three coups against elected governments in Fiji. Scoop's John Howard looks at the evidence.
9:
Scoop
Oddity: Britney, Steve & The
Pope
It would seem the leader of the Roman Catholic faith has supporters in high places, including Lord of The Rings star Liv Tyler’s father, Steve.
10:
Sludge
Report #17 – Dover! – Reader
Reaction
In response to…. Sludge Report #16 - Dover, Dover, Dover! … From Christchurch – Congratulations… And The Kennedy Precedent… From an old reporter's notebook: The Moyle Muldoon and Carmen
11:
Telecommunications
Inqury - Draft Report Release
The Chairman, Mr Hugh Fletcher and Panel Member, Ms Cathie Harrison of the Ministerial Inquiry into Telecommunications will release the Inquiry Panel's Draft Report at a media conference.
12:
Insurance
Company Racism In The US
A major discrimination scandal is breaking in America over the two-tier pricing policy of insurance companies. So far, US$204 million is to be returned to policy holders. John Howard reports.
13:
TV3
News
Qantas NZ – Colmar Brunton/TV3 Poll – GDP Figures – Consumer Confidence (poll) – Deserting Major – Policeman Crushed – Lord Of The Rings – Wanganui Murder – Big Rain
14:
The
Truth Behind Speight's Racial
Myths
SUVA: Rebel leader George Speight staged his attempted coup for Fijian paramountcy over Indo-Fijian and other races in the Pacific country. But the real struggle has been a fight for power among the Fijian leadership.
15:
HARD NEWS 23/6/00 - Uncomfortably
Shagged
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... well, I was getting sick of weeks of patting the business community on the head and taking its temperature - and, lo, along came a whole new agenda.
16:
Extent
Of PM's Cover-Up Revealed
New information about the wide-ranging contacts between the Labour Party and the family of the woman involved in the Dover Samuels affair has shown the Prime Minister's judgement to be far more compromised than we first believed, Acting Opposition Leader ...
17:
Message
on National Emergency with Russia
Pursuant to section 204(b) of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), 50 U.S.C. 1703(b) and section 301 of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1631, I hereby report that I have exercised my authority to declare a national emergency ...
18:
Mugabe
Set To Win Zimbabwe
Elections
President Mugabe’s ZANU PF party is likely to hold onto power in Zimbabwe, although its majority has been significantly reduced.
21:
Sludge
Report #16 - Dover, Dover,
Dover!
Initially when the Dover Samuels sexual allegations story broke, Sludge was in two minds whether to report the scandal at all. Having heard on the journalism grape vine the allegations involved sex with a young underage girl, and that Mr. Samuels ...
22:
Scoop
Archive: Scoop Image: Where The Hobbits
Are
The following picture of a Hobbit House was supplied to Scoop by a friendly, anonymous, hobbit. Scoop beleives it is the first published picture of Hobbitton, in the Waikato, taken from the ground rather than the air. The Hobbitton set is being used for Peter ...http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/e6/e8/200006031018.f2d003c6.html
23:
Deutsche
Bank - NZ:Q1/2000 Commentary
GDP (production based) rose 0.8% qoq in Q1 2000 - marginally higher than the median expectation of 0.7%. The RBNZ's had forecast growth of 0.6% in its May Monetary Policy Statement. Activity in the quarter was 5.5% higher than the same quarter a year earlier.
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.
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Ian Powell: Policy Vacuum Enables For-profit Corporate General Practice Ownership By Stealth
Gordon Campbell: On Iran Killing Its Rappers, And Searching For The Invisible Dr. Reti
Peter Dunne: MPs Unusually Quiet On Pay Rise
Ian Powell: Cuba And New Zealand: A Relationship Worthy Of Strengthening
Gordon Campbell: On bird flu, AUKUS entry fees and Cindy Lee