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The top 20 rating items on Scoop yesterday (Hobbits excluded) were....
6: PM
Announces Changes To Ministerial
Portfolios
Helen Clark said that her main concern was to relieve workload pressures on the Leader of the House, Michael Cullen, and the Deputy Leader of the House, Mark Burton, who also carry heavy portfolio responsibilities.
8:
US
Election: Surgeon General Issues Health
Warning
Fat lady singers - do not hold your breath! It ain't over yet by a long shot. I refer of course to the two spoiled brats squabbling over the last Playstation 2 in the store, which is what this presidential election has revealed itself as. But when ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
10:
Scoop
Images: How Not To Design A Ballot
Paper
The Palm Beach County US Presidential Election ballot paper that has the world in a spin.
11:
Scoop
Cartoon: ACT Changes
Directions
Cartoon from Paul McDonald of http://www.political-cartoons.co.nz/ POLITICAL-CARTOONS.CO.NZ
12:
NZ
PM And Foreign Affairs Minister Are
Despicable
The Prime Minister of New Zealand Ms. Helen Clarke and the Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff have come under heavy fire from the interim regime in Fiji.
13:
TVNZ
And Telstrasaturn Digital TV
Partnership
TVNZ and TelstraSaturn have today signed a memorandum of understanding that will speed the delivery of digital television services to New Zealanders.
14:
Scoop
Cartoon: Uncle Sam Has A
Cuppa
Cartoon from Paul McDonald of http://www.political-cartoons.co.nz/ POLITICAL-CARTOONS.CO.NZ
15:
HARD
NEWS - The President's Mandate is Missing
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... does it occur to anyone else that the run-up to the "real" Millennium is quite a bit more millennial than the one everybody celebrated last year?
16:
National
Radio Midday Report
Cabinet Reshuffle – Cervical Smear Test – TVNZ Telstra Saturn Deal – Rescue Helicopter Delay – NZ Biosecurity – US Presidential Election – Peace Talks – Skin Cancer Costs – Tua Fight – Austrian Rail Disaster
17:
We’re
Proud Of You David Tua
‘New Zealanders are all very proud of what he has achieved, particularly our Samoan community,’ said Mr Gosche.
19:
Scoop
Images: Samoa - "It's going
crazy"
Friday 11th November - APIA: Pupils at Apia's Loto Taumafai Education Centre for the Disabled staged an enactment of the Tua/Lewis fight today.
21:
Changes
to Ministerial Portfolios
Announced
A reshuffle of ministerial portfolios has seen the Hon. George Hawkins take over as Minister of Internal Affairs.
22:
Driving
tips to cut motorists' fuel bills
Motorists can slash their fuel costs by 10-20% a year with the help of a new driving tips brochure now available from service stations and the AA, says Energy Minister Pete Hodgson.
23:
Libz
Want Fair Trial For Clark And
Upton
Libertarianz Health Deregulation spokesman Richard McGrath wants Helen Clark and Simon Upton made accountable for the fatal decision not to screen blood supplies for hepatitis C in the 1990s. "Our party has repeatedly highlighted Mr Upton's ...
24:
Keith
Rankin: Maori: colonised or
colonist?
The "colonisation debate" in New Zealand suffers because too few non-Maori New Zealanders know our country's history, and too many Maori know how to exploit that historical illiteracy. The irony is that a film released this year, Feathers ...
25:
Kiwis
Join Rush To Florida Cliffhanger
It’s not just Americans who are hungry for online updates Auckland – 10 November 2000 – The tension of the nail biter American presidential race is pulling big numbers of New Zealanders as well as Americans to the web for updates, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.
26:
Cabinet
reshuffle an ineffectual
non-event
The Cabinet reshuffle announced by the Prime Minister today will do nothing to address the Government's real problems, Opposition leader Jenny Shipley said today.
27:
Upton-on-line
November 10th
This is upton-on-line’s last issue until December 1st. He will be overseas, leaving the next two issues in the hands of english-temporarily-on-line. Upton-on-line returns for December before disappearing forever into a linguistic Bermuda triangle that ...
28:
Anti-TV
Licence Campaign Crusaders
Celebrate
The group that successfully campaigned for the abolition of the broadcasting tax this year says its push to make Governments and bureaucrats accountable to the New Zealand people is only just beginning.
29:
RE:
"Diabetes, Disease of the Couch
Potato"
I have had a number of phone calls from Diabetes Youth Wellington (DYW) members and their parents who were appalled to see yesterday's Consumer Magazine with its heading "Diabetes: Disease of the couch potato".
30:
Derek
Fox Hui Taumata Speech
Waipatu Marae 1.30 pm Karamu Road North Saturday 11 November 2000 Hawke’s Bay
HOBBIT
STORIES...
1: Scoop
Images: Lake Hobbitton - Another View
2: Scoop
Archive: Scoop Images: Mirror Snaps Bilbo's
House
3: Scoop
Images: WORLD EXCLUSIVE: BAG END!
4: Scoop
Images: Hobbiton By The Water
5: Scoop
Archive: Scoop Image: Where The Hobbits Are
7:
Scoop
Images: A Hobbit Summer House?
9: Scoop
Images: And Not A Hobbit Was Stirring
18: Scoop
Images: Wellywood's Favourite Starlet
20: Scoop
Images: Bree Is Spooky At
Night….
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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