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Scoop Ratings - Special Bulletin
Scoop is heading for a very high rating day today - Thanks Nicky - the top 20 so far - 2.30pm today...another bulletin will be posted after 6pm...
1: Timberlands
Book Makes Worries For
Government
A book launched today using a package of documents from Timberlands' West Coast's public relations company may prove damaging to the government, especially the Prime Minister.
2:
Plunket
Sups With The Devil
Libertarianz Deputy Leader Richard McGrath is neither impressed nor surprised by Jenny Shipley's decision to subsidise Plunketline from the public trough.
3:
Poll
Shows Fitzsimons Ahead In
Coromandel
A poll of the Coromandel electorate, a seat held at present by National MP Murray McLean, shows Green Party Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons ahead.
4:
Kevin
Roberts Speech: Nine Muses
I delivered it in Manila. What an amazing experience to be in the Philippines! Typhoons and the 50th anniversary of Ace Saatchi & Saatchi. The Philippines business community were an optimistic and receptive audience for the speech, and the media were buzzing ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
Labour's
Cannabis Pledge
"Disappointing"
Minister of Youth Affairs, Tony Ryall, said today that he was disappointed at Labour's pledge to review New Zealand's cannabis laws.
6:
Crown
Issues Legal Proceedings Against
IBM
The Crown issued legal proceedings today against IBM NZ and IBM Corporation in relation to the INCIS contract, Finance Minister Sir William Birch announced today.
7:
Column:
Babies' Blood Row Raises Big Brother
Fears
In the Auckland High Court last week it was revealed that since 1969 heel-prick blood samples have been taken at birth from all babies and stored without informed consent. John Howard speculates on a hypothetical example of just what identification ...
8:
Greens
Urge Ryall To Initiate Timberlands
Inquiry
The Green Party is calling on State Owned Enterprises Minister Tony Ryall to initiate an investigation into Timberlands following accusations made today by author Nicky Hager in his new book Secrets and Lies.
9:
The
Week Ahead: Policy Galore And An
MPS
The season of electioneering is now well and truly upon us. A report from Scoop's Jonathan Hill and Alastair Thompson surveys the week ahead.
10:
Jenny
Shipley Behind SOE's Political
Lobbying
Prime Minister Jenny Shipley needs to explain why she and staff in her office supported and assisted Timberlands' politically-motivated multi-million dollar anti-environmental PR campaign but in response to a question in Parliament in July denied there had ...
11:
State
Company's Dirty Tricks Exposed
A cynical campaign of deceit and manipulation of public opinion, conducted on behalf of and funded by a state owned enterprise, is exposed in a new book published today.
12:
APEC
Junket Costs Taxpayers $65,000
The Green Party has accused the Government of wasting $65,000 of taxpayers' money to host 23 journalists.
13:
National
too cowardly to stand by its own
smears
Advertisements attacking the Alliance and Labour in Sunday newspapers are paid for by the National Party, Alliance leader Jim Anderton says.
14:
Scoop
Ratings - Today's Top 20
The top 20 rating items on Scoop today were...
15:
Lava
Magazine: The Scoop On
Scoop
Article republished with the kind permission of Lava magazine...
16:
Timberlands
Worked To "Neutralise"
Greenies
The main priority of the Timberlands public relations campaign was to "neutralise" the effect of the environmental groups that threatened its logging plans. The book Secrets and Lies, released today, reveals the anti-environmental agenda behind Timberlands' ...
17:
Alliance
Economic Policy - Power Grab By
Anderton
ACT Leader Richard Prebble said today the Alliance's economic development policy was a power grab by Jim Anderton
18:
State
Company Targets Labour Party
For the last year the primary target of Timberlands' PR campaign has been the Labour Party, owing to management fears that a change of government in November would lead to its native forest logging being stopped. The new book, Secrets and Lies, shows ...
19:
Soapbox:
Zen And The Art Of Computer Projects
In the aftermath of the failure of the Police's Incis computer project, Matthew Thomas points out that it would actually have been a miracle if the project had succeeded.
20:
Secrets
And Lies - Background Info On
Writers
Nicky Hager is best known in New Zealand for his role as a researcher and critic on public issues such as nuclear and military policy and intelligence. However his main work, for the last decade, has been as a writer. In 1998 he was judged fourth ...
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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