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Scoop Ratings - Weekend Top 20
The top 20 rating items on Scoop at the weekend were...
1: Images:
Shooting - WARNING GRAPHIC
CONTENT
They show what appear to be Indonesian troops gunning down a youth in the street's of East Timor as he runs away.
2:
Scoop
News Analysis: East Timor - The End
Game
What is really going on in East Timor and Jakarta? Scoop's Alastair Thompson surveys the limited sources of information currently available and attempts to reconcile what is clearly a very complicated crisis.
3:
Scoop’s
Latest Words On Lord Of The Rings
Filming
Scoop understands that some filming for the massive trilogy The Lord Of The Rings is to take place in the countryside West of Masterton.
4:
Is
East Timor Really "Out Of
Control"?
A front-page New York Times article about the precarious situation in East Timor (9/12/99) began by reporting that Indonesian "Gen. Wiranto, conceded Saturday that he had lost control of elements of his military" that were operating on ...Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
House
Resonant With Sincerity As Troops
Farewelled
Scoop House Coverage: Snippets of the debate. Jenny Shipley, Helen Clark, Jim Anderton, Ron Mark, Richard Prebble, Jeanette Fitzsimons and Peter Dunne on NZ's East Timor peacekeeping deployment.
6:
Scoop
Archive: Scoop Art: Soldier Of
Hope
A picture and poem.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/1d/4a/199909180222.fd72d101.html
A picture and poem.
8:
Election
Date To Be Announced Next
Weekend
Prime Minister Jenny Shipley said today she will announce the date of the 1999 general election following a special caucus to be held in Auckland on Sunday 26 September.
9:
Rebels
delighted with election
results
Prebble's Rebels New Zealand President Clint Heine is delighted with the results of the Victoria University Students Association (VUWSA) student elections.
10:
Hey
Richard; When, Where, How Much Did It Cost
Us?
Richard Prebble's admission that he's finally taken up residence in Wellington poses more questions about the embattled Act leader's fixed abode.
11:
OUSA
can dish it out but they can't take
it
"OUSA cries like a baby whenever their political monopoly is challenged" said Mr Heine, the national president of Prebble's Rebels.
12:
The
New Zealand First / Alliance
Struggle
With an almost identical support base, the biggest head to head party clash in the coming election promises to be between New Zealand First and the Alliance. Early signs show the Alliance suffering as the Peters campaign takes hold. Jonathan Hill ...
The Sunday Papers report extensively on NZ's decision to commit troops to peacekeeping troops to East Timor.
14:
Then
Do Your Research Minister
The Minister of Tertiary Education, Max Bradford claimed in the latest Women’s Weekly (20th Sept); “We have seen no hard evidence of students being denied bank loans, putting off buying houses or delaying starting families as a result of their student ...
15:
Scoop
Today - Meanwhile In Other News
Meanwhile there is a whole bunch of other stuff happening too...including an announcement of an announcement date for the next election.
16:
Protests
highlight Governments’ gross
ignorance
THE AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION (INC.) TE ROOPU TAUIRA O TE WHARE WAANANGA O TAMAKI MAKAURAU
17:
Timberlands'
Deals Aimed At Forcing Govt.
Hand
New Timberlands West Coast contracts are aimed at forcing the next Government into logging native forests, Green Party Co-Leader Rod Donald said today.
18:
Minister's
Ignorance Hardly Surprising -
Students
Claims by Max Bradford in this week's Woman's Weekly that student loans are not restricting people from obtaining bank loans, buying houses or starting families are not surprising given his general inability to understand the tertiary education sector, said Co-President ...
19:
Timor
Troops - For How Long? How Much
Resistance?
Janes Defence Weekly is reporting the around 8,000 strong UN force (INTERFET) being deployed to East Timor can expect to be there for two years. What combat opposition are they likely to encounter? John Howard reports.
20:
The
values the Chinese have made
famous
ACT is the party that most closely represents the values the Chinese have made famous. The importance of family. The virtue of hard work. The wisdom of thrift. The belief in personal responsibility.
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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