Scoop has an Ethical Paywall
Scoop InfoPages
This InfoPage in unregistered, if this is your news page register HARD NEWS from Russell Brown for InfoPages here.
HARD NEWS from Russell Brown - Latest News [Page 24]
Public Address 22/04/05 – Jesus' Ipod
Friday, 22 April 2005, 2:03 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
After all the fuss about George Bush's iPod, this handsomely entitled newspaper column, Thoughts For The New Pope: Condoms. Female priests. Stop gay bashing. And dammit, do something about Christian rock got me thinking - c'mon, it's Friday - about what ... More >>
Public Address 21/04/05 - Leapfrogging
Thursday, 21 April 2005, 1:09 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Several readers have alerted me to this interesting report for the US Council on Foreign Relations on the success - and otherwise - of different national strategies on broadband deployment. It should be required reading for New Zealand policy-makers... More >>
Public Address 20/04/05 - Fisking, Feminism, Etc.
Wednesday, 20 April 2005, 2:07 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
A quick word on the Marae Digipoll survey of Maori voter intentions: it didn't surprise me. The Maori Party will be in the next Parliament in numbers, and it deserves to be, because it has harnessed community support in a way that political parties rarely ... More >>
Public Address 19/04/05 - Choice
Tuesday, 19 April 2005, 1:16 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Surely, if God actually chose the Pope it would be much simpler. Just put everyone's name in a hat, and have an innocent child draw out the name of the next pontiff. If God wants an African Pope, or a Latin American one - or for that matter a female... More >>
Public Address 18/04/05 - Totally Real
Monday, 18 April 2005, 1:22 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Live from the Asian future: Jin at Supa Jam The call came from a member of our Chinese posse, whose name and personalised number plate I cannot reveal for legal reasons. He was hemmed in by a police checkpoint designed to trap the Asians in Howick that ... More >>
Public Address 15/04/05 - End Of World And More
Friday, 15 April 2005, 12:19 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The venerable Guardian caught stoking the fires of East-Asian thermonuclear war. New Zealand's top Bursary scholar not Chinese for the second year running. These are surely the end times. On the 'big scary China zombie-attack leaping from cupboard' ... More >>
Public Address 14/04/05 - Drugs Special
Thursday, 14 April 2005, 12:06 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Having kicked off the psychedelic revolution in 1954 with The Doors of Perception, a still-entrancing account of a maiden mescalin trip, Aldous Huxley subsequently fell out with Timothy Leary on the matter of who should really get access to this ... More >>
Public Address 13/04/05 - Fear And Loathing
Wednesday, 13 April 2005, 10:55 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
And so, a political solution. Not so much the only solution as the only one that wasn't completely horrifying to contemplate. Really, would you rather be savaged by a dead sheep Don Brash, or face the very real possibility of your renegade MP ... More >>
Public Address 12/04/05 - All Sorted
Tuesday, 12 April 2005, 10:01 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
To paraphrase John Lennon: life is what has been happening to other people while we've been busy making plans. We leave tomorrow for a fortnight in the States: a trip from SanFran to Seattle and back to visit the Boeing factories, maybe catch ... More >>
Public Address 11/04/05 - News From The Front
Monday, 11 April 2005, 11:28 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Early Friday evening, I was sitting on the coach wondering how far removed from the reality of a rugby game Murray Mexted could get and still be considered to be actually commentating on it, when a text message arrived on my phone: "You have just been ... More >>
Public Address 08/04/05 - A Laugh Or Two
Friday, 8 April 2005, 12:20 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Time for a laugh, I think. The best thing to come out of the whole Tamihere shemozzle must surely be the excellent Hairy McLairy parody aired on Morning Report today after whizzing around the Internet this week... More >>
Public Address 07/04/05 - Labouring
Thursday, 7 April 2005, 1:15 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I'll put this up the front of the post to avoid confusing fanboys who have Googled their way here. My interview yesterday with Chris Knox, about the excellent new Toy Love retrospective Cuts, is archived here as a 10MB MP3... More >>
Public Address 06/04/05 - Ethics And Ethnics
Wednesday, 6 April 2005, 3:36 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Just a quickie today: the way the death of Terri Schiavo neatly segued into the death of the Pope has encouraged the US conservative right to go ahead and politicise the Pope to try and carry forward the momentum generated by the Schiavo debacle... More >>
Public Address 05/04/03 - Meltdown!
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 4:32 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I'm starting to wonder whether it was John Tamihere I liked, or just Helen Bain's script. After last week's Parliamentary assault on TV3, which was followed by a blog posting so silly that somebody sensibly deleted it from the party website (I'll paste ... More >>
Public Address 04/04/05 - Four Great New Posts
Monday, 4 April 2005, 11:45 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Ans Westra is one of this country's most enduring and remarkable documentary photographers. A Dutch immigrant, for nearly half a century she has been photographing New Zealanders and taking snapshots of the events that form our history... More >>
Public Address 01/04/05 - Doggin'
Friday, 1 April 2005, 2:57 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I suppose no one can really yank the chain on John Tamihere - that's part of his thing - but his Parliamentary assault on TV3's Duncan Garner, and more especially the claim that 3 News shows political bias towards Rodney Hide, was fairly extraordinary... More >>
Public Address 31/03/05 - Missing George
Thursday, 31 March 2005, 12:51 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Well, if you had the choice, wouldn't you put Rob Robinson up for a TV interview over George Hawkins? The Police Commissioner ("a civil servant!" hissed John Campbell) was clearly paying attention during media skills training, and handled an enjoyably ... More >>
Public Address 30/03/05 - Once More ...
Wednesday, 30 March 2005, 4:23 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I promise, I'll get off the Schiavo case and get local again. But I've been getting a few "you disgust me" emails from people in America. The thing that strikes me is that their perceptions are taking shape in textbook conspiracy theory style: start ... More >>
Public Address 29/03/05 - Hysteria
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 12:22 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Having only heard of Terri Schiavo five minutes ago, a surprising number of her "supporters" have found themselves able to not only declare that her husband (who appears to have provided more care for her than any other individual, and never stopped visiting ... More >>
Public Address 24/03/05 - Expats And Moonbats
Thursday, 24 March 2005, 12:34 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
David Cohen wrote an interesting column on the coverage of religious news and issues in last week's NBR. He's right: matters of the spirit generally get an even worse deal than matters of science in the papers, which is saying something... More >>
