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Scoop Today - Yesterday's Top 20
The top 20 rating items on Scoop yesterday were...
1:
A
Story You Would Probably Rather Not
Read
The All Blacks lost. Yes, it is unthinkable. But yes, it has happened. France beat us. Horribly. And no its not over. We have to play again. Against the Springboks. For third place! So yes, in short, it is awful.
2:
Labour
pleased with All Blacks
loss
“Helen Clark seems to be the only New Zealander pleased that the All Blacks lost their World Cup semi-final match”, Sport Minister Murray McCully said today.
3:
All
Blacks Lacked Pride And Identity:
Henare
The All Blacks lost against the French today because they lacked pride in themselves and their country, Mauri Pacific Leader Tau Henare said today.
4:
More
Needed Than A Collection Of Good
Tunes
Yesterday's launch of the election campaign's by Labour, National and NZ First leaders, looked like they all took lessons from their US colleagues. John Howard reports.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
5:
Upton
On Line - Getting Out of the
Gloom
As New Zealanders arise numb from this morning's horror at Twickenham, politicians must pick themselves up to fight the election campaign. Labour will be tempted to revel in the "doom and gloom", National must find a way out of it.
6:
Scoop
Archive: Scottish Ref A Serious Threat To Cup
Hopes
Taking nothing away from the Wallabies victory - they played very well and the All Blacks poorly - but there are lessons for World Cup contenders, fans and organisers in the refereeing of tonight's Bledisloe Cup match in Sydney.http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/71/8e/199908290102.209247c8.html
7:
Scoop
Images: And Not A Hobbit Was
Stirring
The following pictures show the inside of the set for the town of Bree from the Lord of The Rings Trilogy which began shooting in New Zealand yesterday under the direction of Peter Jackson.
A Cairo-bound EgyptAir Boeing 767 that crashed off the US coast on Sunday killing 217 people on board plummeted towards the Atlantic Ocean in "a very rapid descent," the head of the US National Transportation Safety Board has said.
9:
Scoop
Images: Gandalf’s Two Exploding
Trees
Responding to the hints of a couple of US Lord of The Rings websites – http://www.lordoftherings.com/ and http://www.onering.net/ - Scoop earlier this week informed its star Hobbit paparazzi of a reported sighting of Gandalf’s exploding trees in Upper Hutt.
On Thursday the Australian Federal Government announced that it and state government's would spend a massive A$480 million to complete the rail link between the northern and southern coasts - nearly 90 years after the idea was first floated. John Howard ...
11:
NZ
slated as 'fossil of the day'
New Zealand has been slated for its large increases in CO2 emissions since 1990, at an international climate change conference in Germany this week.
12:
National
Radio Midday Bulletin
All Black Loss – Boy Burnt – North Shore Police – Egyptian Plane Crash – Indian Cyclone – Euro Beef Wars – Act on Local Govt – Alliance on Social Sec – Adoption Paper – Wairarapa Nurses Strike – Sexual Harassment – Scams – Youth Drinking Card
13:
Nats
nick yet another Labour policy
"National's latest policy theft from Labour demonstrates just how bankrupt of ideas, tired and compromised they are," Labour finance spokesperson Michael Cullen said today.
14:
Mental
Illness No Excuse For
Violence
Libertarianz Deputy Leader Richard McGrath today revealed his party's mental health strategy. "Like all our other policies, the emphasis is on individual responsibility. We believe each person should fund their own health costs through savings, insurance ...
15:
Best
Looking Party List on
Offer
Herewith the full list of thirty list candidates for Libertarianz, the party aiming to get Nanny State off our backs, out of our pockets, and out of our lives. These people are not committee joiners, scout leaders or bureaucrats - they are passionate ...
16:
Saturn
And Telecom Reach 0867
Agreement
Saturn and Telecom announced today they had signed an Internet Traffic Agreement covering 0867 calls.
17:
Disruption
Sign Of Desperation
Disruption at the National Party campaign launch in Auckland today, by supporters of the Labour-Alliance bloc, is a sign of the parties' absolute desperation, Enterprise and Commerce Minister Max Bradford says.
18:
Election
1999: Leader's Debate Highlight Of Week
5
The biggest laugh of campaign week five came from the Libertarianz on Thursday. Deputy Leader Richard McGrath said he was tempted to join the National Party after Annette King claimed the government was responsible for a 'sexually transmitted disease time-bomb'.
19:
On
The Left: Employment In A Civilised
Society
The Carter Columns - In "On The Left" this week, Jordan Carter writes about employment and why it is a "key defining policy point" between Parliament's left and right factions; and more importantly about the social costs of unemployment.
20:
Spraydrift
decimated Garden Centre victim of
Gov
Auckland's Sunhill Garden Centre, unlikely to get legal redress after being decimated by spraydrift this week, is a victim of Government inaction in introducing regulations to clamp down on chemical spraying, the Green Party says.
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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