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Public Address 26/04/04 - Telly Visions
Monday, 26 April 2004, 11:30 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So TVNZ is developing plans for a new UHF channel - probably, despite the denials, a "charter channel" of quality and niche programming. Given that the ad market is booming, and TVNZ has frequencies in hand, this might seem like a good idea - if ... More >>
Public Address 23/04/04 - People's Voices
Friday, 23 April 2004, 12:01 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So the Blues are history, and the Kiwis will, in all probability, get a towelling in Newcastle tonight. Which leaves us with Camillia. If, having missed the top three last week, she departs NZ Idol on Sunday, it will all have gone terribly wrong... More >>
Public Address 22/04/04 - Up And Down
Thursday, 22 April 2004, 1:11 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
A couple of people have asked me who "Gordy" is - and Gordon Dryden was, understandably, concerned that people might think it was him. No. Gordy is Gordon King, aka NZ Pundit, leading local representative of the vast right-wing conspiracy... More >>
Public Address 20/04/04 - Impasse
Tuesday, 20 April 2004, 11:54 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Should we just burn all our history books then? The new Treaty of Waitangi website, launched yesterday, is wordy, serious and determinedly equivocal. The political response to it was predictable and a bit embarrassing.. More >>
Public Address 19/04/04 - Auckland Weekend
Monday, 19 April 2004, 3:49 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
A police pipe band, footfalls locked to the spare beat of a snare, bisects a line of happy Asians, who clutch long incense sticks as they wait to pay tribute to the giant Buddha whose stage fills one side of Aotea Square... More >>
PUBLIC ADDRESS 16/04/04 - Wrapping Up
Friday, 16 April 2004, 3:30 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Look closely, because I possibly will never say this again: thankyou John Banks. The Westhaven waterfront debacle probably always needed a little double-dealing and subterfuge to fix it, and Banks was always likely to be your man for that ... More >>
Public Address 15/04/04 - Home Fronts
Thursday, 15 April 2004, 12:03 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Clearly, Garth George is back on letters duty at the Herald. Yesterday's column was led by four missives of boilerplate Maxim Institute-derived raving about PC, perversions and the threat to the family. Was there really no other opinion?... More >>
Public Address 14/04/04 - Unions And Idols
Wednesday, 14 April 2004, 11:37 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Gordon Campbell has a perceptive story on where Iraq is likely to head in the next year or two in this week's Listener, quoting Juan Cole and Riverbend. I suspect he's right to argue that doom-mongers like Tariq Ali, and optimists like George Bush, ... More >>
Public Address 13/04/04 - Media Defeatism Special
Tuesday, 13 April 2004, 12:19 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
After all these years, a nice early start on Fridays has been etched into my neurons, and Good Friday wasn't any different. So just before seven, I was up in a quiet house, reading about Iraq. There was something eerie about encountering this noise and chaos ... More >>
Public Address 08/04/04 - Big Easter Bundle!
Thursday, 8 April 2004, 12:03 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I don't know that Easter really made sense to me until I lived in the northern hemisphere. Most years in London, spring really would push through over Easter Weekend, signalling that the climb out of the long English winter had begun... More >>
Public Address 07/04/04 - Ill Semantics
Wednesday, 7 April 2004, 12:22 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So are we to see the crucial foreshore legislation fall over semantics? It's shaping up that way, with the two minor parties, New Zealand First and United Future utterly at odds over whether the legislation will decree the foreshores as Crown property ... More >>
Public Address 06/04/04 - Violence Etc
Tuesday, 6 April 2004, 12:53 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Things are not going well in Iraq. With 20-20 hindsight, it would surely have been better to allow Moqtada al-Sadr's al-Hawza newspaper to continue to publish its bile to a small audience. The closure of the paper by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ... More >>
Public Address 05/04/04 - Commonsense And Soul
Monday, 5 April 2004, 11:43 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Gilbert Wong's feature story on Don Brash in the new Metro is very good. Unlike most of the Brash profiles so far, it seeks to determine who actually wrote the Orewa speech and from what sources, and how faithful it is to those sources... More >>
Public Address 01/04/04 - Encounters
Thursday, 1 April 2004, 1:47 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Sometimes I think Alias only exists to show Jennifer Garner in her underwear. Or a bikini - did you see that on Tuesday? The panning shots, the slo-mo. If the acting thing doesn't work out for her, there's a great career awaiting at Victoria's Secret ... More >>
Public Address 31/03/04 - Life
Wednesday, 31 March 2004, 10:49 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
New numbers from the Department of Statistics show that New Zealanders' life expectancy continues to rise - and that, for the first time in decades, the disparity between Maori and non-Maori longevity, has narrowed since 1995... More >>
Public Address 30/03/04 - There Is No Depression
Tuesday, 30 March 2004, 11:23 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The irony of the Herald's lavish front-page treatment yesterday of Bic Runga's "controversial" comments to the Belfast Telegraph about New Zealand race relations is that it left out the good stuff. More >>
Public Address 29/03/04 - Flashback And Back
Monday, 29 March 2004, 12:08 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Salon.com's Heather Havrilesky recently held a Fix 24 contest; the top six entries included the gem: "Two words: musical episode." Sadly, Jack's unlikely to break out into song ("Regrets, I've had a few ..."), he's wrecked his ... More >>
Public Address 26/03/04 - Friday Flashes
Friday, 26 March 2004, 11:23 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So if I'm unfortunate enough to be convicted of a crime some time, I'm entitled to half a million taxpayer dollars to restore my "mana"? No? Well why does Nick Smith think he is then? That doesn't sound like "one law for all", does it?... More >>
Public Address 25/03/04 - Intentions
Thursday, 25 March 2004, 1:02 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Well, it's a while since any TV made me as angry and indignant as Paul Holmes' interview with Nick Smith MP did last night. Smith has, of course, been convicted in the High Court of contempt of court, along with TV3 and Radio New Zealand... More >>
Public Address 24/03/04 - What's On Telly?
Wednesday, 24 March 2004, 11:37 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So Helen Clark declined to appear on Holmes last night, and Don Brash wouldn't go on Havoc. I'm sure there's a gag in there somewhere. Clark, of course, was never going to allowed herself to be summonsed onto television - between elections Prime ... More >>
