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Yesterday’s top 30 rating items on Scoop were…
1: HARD
NEWS 11/5/01 - Tokenism and
Television
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... 20 years ago, when I was a cub reporter, a bunch of us were shown around the local Air Force base, in a tour which took in a couple of Skyhawks. They were the pride of the force. "But aren't they just expensive tokenism?" asked ...
2:
CANNES
LOTR The Footage! Friday at Cannes
I woke up 3 times in the middle of the night just to be sure I would not miss my train. After all, there was no way in heck I was going to miss the Lord of the Rings press footage and a chance to talk with the cast members.
3:
Harre
Announces 'Get Bonking-For-A-Baby
Day'
Its official! "Paid Parental Leave takes effect from April 1 2002, and Laila Harre tells us she is already corresponding with women who want to know when they should get pregnant," says a horrified Lindsay Mitchell, Libertarianz Spokesman. ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
An
important ethics decision - Nicky
Hager
Reaction to the Public Relations Institute decision on the professional conduct of Klaus Sorensen and Rob McGregor of Shandwick New Zealand Ltd in the Timberlands PR campaign
5:
Howard's
End: A Little Light Metal
"You are what you eat" has been the catch-cry of some health professionals for decades. But now, more and more scientists are saying that we all need to know more about the food we eat because some foods can effect behaviour and we could be ...
6:
The
DPB - A Social Catastrophe
Why do politicians, welfare agencies and social advocacy groups stubbornly continue to ignore the devastating effects of the Domestic Purposes Benefit? Barnados made a startling claim last week that 284,266 New Zealand children are living in households ...
7:
Feminist
Pendulum Has Swung Too Far
Today is Mother’s Day, and the message that Helen Clark has sent to every mother in the country is plain and simple: have daughters, or else.
8:
Cow
With Human Genes Trial Should Be Terminated
Researchers in the US have discovered bacteria in soil and groundwater beneath farms are acquiring genes from bacteria originating in pigs' guts, they fear this could provide a route for potentially dangerous bugs to reach people and the wider environment.
9:
CANNES
LOTR: IVs with Lee, McKellen,
Rhys-Davies
Here is the first installment of our cast interviews. These interviews were conducted in a round table format with about 9 other reporters, including Harry from AintitCool. While my analog tape of this interview turned out pretty poor, I'm hopeful Harry ...
10:
XtraMSN
will become the heavyweight player
Auckland: 11 May 2001 – News that Telecom’s xtra.co.nz portal is to combine with Microsoft’s msn.com portal heralds a new super-heavyweight in the New Zealand internet space, according to Nielsen//NetRatings.
11:
Stateside
with Rosalea: A Fine Tub O'
Tuna
Trying to make sense of California's energy 'crisis' is like putting your hand in a bucket of eels. Just when you think you've got hold of something substantial to hang onto it slips away.
ARENA (Action, Research and Education Network of Aotearoa) has organised Wellington and Christchurch public meetings on the proposed New Zealand - Hong Kong Free Trade Agreement.
13:
SkyCabs
Offer Auckland Transport
Solution
The range of possible solutions to Auckland's passenger transportation dilemma has expanded with the introduction of an innovative new system known as SkyCabs.
14:
Dayna
Berghan: Now I Want Some
Commitment
I've Sniffed Your Flowers, I've Eaten Your Chocolates. Now I Want Some Commitment.
15:
Weber
Shandwick satisfied with
vindication
Weber Shandwick Worldwide, New Zealand, is pleased to have been vindicated for the communications work carried out on behalf of State Owned Enterprise, Timberlands West Coast Ltd. This comes some 18 months after ethics complaints were laid against ...
16:
Media
Flash - May 14, 2001
* JOHN B. FAIRFAX, head of Rural Press, says the group's regional publications are finding sales difficult to attain in softened economic times. He says earnings could be 10 per cent down in the second half of the financial year. This announcement came ...
17:
Timeline
Announced For Paid Parental
Leave
Women's Affairs Minister Laila Harré and Minister of Finance Michael Cullen clarify timetable for finalising Paid Parental Leave details.
18:
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 ...
19:
Scoop
Feature: Out Of The Loop
The folding of Wellington magazine Loop this week is a 'travesty' says the chief executive of Saatchi and Saatchi Worldwide.
20:
NZ
Nuclear Guinea Pig Consent Rejected By
Locke
Green Party Veterans Affairs spokesperson Keith Locke today rejected the British Defence Minister's claims that soldiers consented to being exposed to nuclear test fallout in the early 1950s.
21:
NZ
Web-Site Dedicated To Classical Music
Finally a NZ web-site dedicated to classical music on CD opens in New Zealand.
22:
Global
Issues – New Challenges, New Approaches
Global Issues – New Challenges, New Approaches (SPEECH AT THE ANNUAL DINNER OF THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS – WELLINGTON CLUB, WELLINGTON)
23:
National
Radio Midday Report
Nuclear Experiments – Graham Parry – Ambulance Self Defence – Southern Flights – Murder Charge – Italian Elections – Oz Immigrant Riots – Macedonian Elections – Dash-8 – Chubb Robbery – Youth Drug Centre – Sleepy Drivers – Marlborough Rain – Northland ...
24:
Rushed
Parental Leave Scheme
United Future leader, Hon Peter Dunne, is warning the Government against rushing its proposed parental leave scheme, saying a rushed scheme will inevitably be a botched scheme.
25:
ACT
Seeks Referendum On Race-Based
Seats
ACT Deputy Leader Ken Shirley is drafting a private members’ bill which would put mechanisms in place for a referendum into race-based seats in both local government and central government.
26:
21
Health Boards Brace For Significant
Cuts
The entire country faces longer waiting lists, cuts in services, and threats to quality and safety because of significant widespread cuts in health funding, National's Health spokesperson Roger Sowry said today.
27:
Sludge
#62: Tino-Rangitiratanga = Maori
Rates
Sludge has long been a critic of the Treaty Settlement programme. Not because it is “separatist” or “racist” as critics from the right currently damning moves in the Bay of Plenty to establish Maori council seats would assert, but because it is ...
28:
Police
Accused Of Economic
Sabotage
"Deliberate police action to choke the supply of a popular consumer item has only served to make it more scarce and drive prices up," said Libertarianz spokesman Richard McGrath, noting a recent incident where Lower Hutt police stole hydroponic ...
29:
“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.
30:
Govt
Confirms GST Treatment Of
Non-Residents
The Government will legislate to clarify the pre-1999 application of gst to services contracted for outside New Zealand by non-New Zealand residents but consumed here.
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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Gordon Campbell: On ACT’s Charter Schools Experiment
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