Scoop Top 30 Daily Ratings 26 June 2009

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Yesterday's top 30 rating items on Scoop were...

1: Sri Lanka - The World Has Moved On

Bruce Clark

As with other dramatic and often bloody developments that capture the world’s major media players, (and thereby our own attention), from time to time, the short-lived but intense focus on events in the tiny island state of Sri Lanka has subsided. We ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0906/S00281.htm

The Scoop Team

Singer and songwriter Michael Jackson is reported to have died in a Los Angles Hospital after being found unconscious in his home. Jackson was 50 years old.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0906/S00276.htm

Michael Lucas

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At 1:34pm, Friday 26 June, I received an advertisement text from Vodafone saying the following: "The King of Pop is dead at 50. RIP Michael. Here's all his biggest hits for you. Enjoy. http://go.live/jacksonhits This is a free Vodafone Music alert"
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0906/S00448.htm

Gordon Campbell

There was a quite telling difference of emphasis on Radio Waatea this morning. While Greens MP Sue Bradford was calling on the government to make a substantive response to the unemployment rate among Maori – nearly 45% of those on the unemployment ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0906/S00292.htm

New Matilda

The documentary Stolen created a storm at the Sydney Film Festival when its central character claimed she had been falsely portrayed as a slave. Now, a UNHCR spokeswoman says her interview for the film was also manipulated
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0906/S00449.htm

Tom Frewen

Trevor Mallard gets thown out of the chamber for a second time and narrowly avoids being "named". But did he really call the prime minister a liar? Government goes too far with strategy of blaming everything on the last government when Bill English ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0906/S00293.htm

Family First

Family First NZ is calling on Barnardos, Plunket and other government funded agencies running the Yes Vote campaign for the upcoming Referendum to support a minor law change and save the country $9m.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0906/S00287.htm

YouTube

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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0906/S00447.htm

Knutz

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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0906/S00294.htm

Suzan Mazur

Vincent Fleury is a French scientist investigating origin of form with experiments involving cellular flow. He was recently featured in a PZ Myers Pharyngula blog -- where his work first caught my eye.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0906/S00277.htm

RMTU

NZ unions affiliated to the International Transport Workers Federation held a protest rally outside the Iranian Embassy in Wellington today. This rally was in protest of the appalling workers rights in Iran where workers and union leaders are jailed ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0906/S00450.htm

Newmarket Business Association

“Michael Jackson CDs and DVDs sold out within hours around Newmarket and nationwide,” says the head of the Newmarket Business Association, Cameron Brewer, today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0906/S00639.htm

Green Party

The Green Party’s fear that consumers are missing out on the benefits of smart meters was confirmed today by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment. “There is a clear need for the Government to show leadership and protect the interests ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0906/S00359.htm

Sam Dawson

Protests for freedom in Iran will be held worldwide tomorrow, 26 June, organised by four global union organisations and their members, representing over 170 million workers. [Including in Wellington]
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0906/S00439.htm

Scoop Blogwatch

For those who have been following the twitter streams coming out of Iran, persiankiwi has been one of the lead sources of information since the election. So far his/her/their twitter stream has been infused with excitement, potential and hidden dangers.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0906/S00275.htm

Center for Public Policy Analysis

A senior U.S. foreign officer, Edmund McWilliams, who served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, today commented upon and hailed a Congressional letter sent recently to the U.S. Department of State and Obama Administration regarding the Lao-Hmong ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0906/S00393.htm

Office of the Clerk

1. Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE (Labour—New Lynn) to the Minister of Finance: What is the Government doing to address the current account deficit?; 2. Budget 2009—Decisions; 3. Adult and Community Education—Cuts; 4. Parental Correction Referendum—Proposed ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0906/S00383.htm

eveNZ

LAKE WANAKA (June 26, 2009) – Snow Sports NZ and Winter Games NZ announced today that they will combine resources to host the first stop of the 2009/10 LG FIS Snowboard World Cup Halfpipe tour by scheduling the competition as one of the signature events ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0906/S00290.htm

Canterbury District Health Board

People who have been to a Canterbury Flu Centre and later become more unwell should return for further assessment, according to Dr Phil Schroeder, who leads the Canterbury Primary Pandemic Group. "We don't want people to think that just because they have ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0906/S00156.htm

Greenpeace New Zealand

Keisha Castle-Hughes is one of a range of high profile climate ambassadors working with Greenpeace New Zealand on its Sign on campaign (www.signon.org.nz). The campaign calls for the New Zealand government to adopt a 40 per cent by 2020 emissions reduction ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0906/S00272.htm

Maritime Union of New Zealand

The Maritime Union says the National Government's plan to act as a compulsory recruitment agency for McDonalds fast food chain is a travesty.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0906/S00295.htm

spcs

John Keyhole, 50, well-known for his sardonic and satirical attacks against laws he considers to be “as weird as Dr Seuss's ham & eggs stories", was a dejected, dishevelled and disorientated man as he staggered from the Papatoetoe District Court ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0906/S00294.htm

Azar Majedi

Iran is at the top of international news. What led to the mass protests? How did the situation change so dramatically over a week? What do people want? What will be the outcome of this protest movement? These are the questions discussed repeatedly ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0906/S00280.htm

Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party

The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party are calling on all MPs to support an extremely important piece of legislation that will be before the house on Wednesday 1st of July. Metiria Turei's Medicinal Cannabis Bill will make it legal for patients with ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0906/S00293.htm

Great Wall

Great Wall Motors is the first Chinese car manufacturer to debut in the New Zealand and Australian markets after its dealer launch in Sydney earlier this week. Two twin-cab utilities, the V240 in both 4x2 and 4x4 configurations and the SA220 in 4x2 only, ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0906/S00649.htm

Elam School of Fine Arts

One of this year’s Fulbright scholars is also the first New Zealander to be accepted into the world-renowned Masters of Fine Arts programme at Stanford University in the United States.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0906/S00078.htm

New Zealand Government

Minister of Defence Hon Dr Wayne Mapp and Associate Minister of Defence Hon Heather Roy today officially launched the public consultation document of the National-led Government's Defence review 2009.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0906/S00387.htm

ACT New Zealand

Anti-smacking legislation is not simply useless, but is in fact making the problem worse. What’s more it is an insult to Tino-Rangatiratanga of whanau, ACT New Zealand Maori Issues Spokesperson Peter Tashkoff said today.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0906/S00290.htm

The Maori Party

The Minister of Maori Affairs is shocked and upset to hear of an accident in which two people have been killed and two others injured. “Kei te tangi te ngakau ki nga tangata tokorua kua whara kia mate. E hoa ma, e nga kaiawhina i te iwi kainga ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0906/S00382.htm

New Zealand Government

We continue to operate in the middle of a major international shock that has spread from origins within financial institutions to a widespread economic recession which has resulted in sharp declines in trade flows. I see the OECD itself is currently ...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0906/S00388.htm

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