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Hard News 14/05/03 - A Feast of Blogs
Wednesday, 14 May 2003, 2:16 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So I take my eye off Public Address for a couple of days - let sleeping blogs lie, you might say - and everyone (including our new guest blogger, Mark Graham) gets up and posts. Crikey! More >>
Hard News 06/05/03 - Impressions
Tuesday, 6 May 2003, 2:00 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Really, it's bad enough that we in Auckland have to endure John Banks without him being inflicted on Wellingtonians. His foray into the debate over the Lord of the Rings world premiere - suggesting that Auckland should host it instead - was more ... More >>
Hard News 05/05/03 - Helen's Travels
Monday, 5 May 2003, 2:25 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So, according to the Dominion Post and One News Helen Clark has told Britain and America they might live to regret unleashing the "law of the jungle" through their war in Iraq. But, oddly enough, she didn't. She didn't even tell the Guardian ... More >>
Hard News 03/05/03 - Rock 'n' roll etc
Friday, 2 May 2003, 3:30 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The annual New Zealand Music Awards has had its share of bum notes over the years. Deep down it was your Dad's awards ceremony and it was usually at its most awkward when they tried to package it for television... More >>
HARD NEWS 30/04/03 - Last For The Month
Wednesday, 30 April 2003, 3:11 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Wow, you *did* tell your friends - we picked up about 600 new users yesterday! Anyway, here's the last for April. Have a look. More >>
HARD NEWS 28&29/04/03 – Compulsory Reading
Tuesday, 29 April 2003, 4:04 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Two reasons you should check out today's Public Address postings. One is that they're quite good - the Rumsfeld story in Fortune needs to be read to be believed, and I'm quite pleased to have located a few Internet artefacts related to the original graphical ... More >>
Hard News 28/04/03: Paranoid
Tuesday, 29 April 2003, 10:50 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Neil Morrison is "sad" to see me "wasting time on conspiracy theories" - to wit, the suggestion that the highly symbolic toppling of Saddam's statue in Firdus Square had the whiff of stage-management. More >>
HARD NEWS 24/04/03 - Four Million and Four Hundred
Thursday, 24 April 2003, 1:44 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Cool! Public Address's 400th post on the same day as the four millionth New Zealander ... More >>
HARD NEWS 22/04/03 - Drugs, Dogs, Cults, Comedians
Wednesday, 23 April 2003, 11:27 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I trust everyone is at least a little bit rested after Easter. There's a swag of new posts online at Public Address. Read 'em all, but especially do take the time to read the story about The Fellowship at the end of the latest Hard News. More >>
HARD NEWS 14/04/03 - Untidy Freedom
Monday, 14 April 2003, 4:16 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The transcript of Donald Rumsfeld's April 11 press conference has already been removed from the Washington File, the US federal government's public archive. "The Washington File article you're looking for is no longer on the system," it says when you visit... More >>
Hard News 11/04/03 - New and Good
Friday, 11 April 2003, 1:50 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Tons to read while you're sitting at your desk pretending to work on a Friday afternoon. Rob O'Neill reports on what's really news in Australia - and our new guest blog, Speaker, debuts with a fine dispatch from Greg Wood in Singapore. And, as ever, oneself ... More >>
Hard News 10/04/03 - Looking Forward
Friday, 11 April 2003, 8:23 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
There can be few sights more powerfully symbolic than the toppling of a dictator's statue. And Saddam Hussein's regime has certainly allowed for that scene to be played out over and over, as his ubiquitous images are torn down by his former subjects... More >>
Hard News 08/04/03 - If Everybody Had Cameras
Tuesday, 8 April 2003, 1:26 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
"Jesus!" exclaimed Peter Arnett as the dull whoomp of an explosion sounded. Then, whoomp , again. Arnett was in a media centre in central Baghdad, waiting to deliver a report by satellite to someone called Eric. I know, because he was near a live ... More >>
Hard News: Waiting at the gates of Babylon
Monday, 7 April 2003, 2:23 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Guess who's waiting on the Jordanian border to save souls for Christ - once His holy weapons have shredded the Iraqi resistance? Missionaries from two of the biggest evangelical Christian missions in the US: the Southern Baptist Convention and the ... More >>
HARD NEWS 04/04/03 - Strange World
Friday, 4 April 2003, 2:13 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
More than ever, the West and the rest of the world seem to be seeing very different wars in Iraq. While the western media fusses over the operational details of the war and a creepy - and possibly premature - note of triumphalism comes through America ... More >>
Hard News 01/04/03: Standing Back
Tuesday, 1 April 2003, 5:29 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I'm taking a break from war-blogging for a few days: securing my supply-lines and all that. It is perhaps also time to stand back and consider what's happening in this war. More >>
HARD NEWS 31/03/03 - The Missiles Etc.
Monday, 31 March 2003, 9:47 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The latest posts are below. Mine is a bit of Internet sleuthing about the missile attacks that killed so many civilians in Baghdad last week - we're being lied to - Jolisa's is another crucial dispatch from New York, and Chad's is some weird jazz. More >>
HARD NEWS 26/03/03 - What The Russians Are Seeing
Wednesday, 26 March 2003, 2:29 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Official Iraqi information on the war seems to have been a mixture of the familiar grand fantasy and apparently reliable body counts. The coalition side, meanwhile, seems desperately keen to reassure us that it's all going to plan, when in some respects ... More >>
HARD NEWS 25/03/03 - Factualities
Tuesday, 25 March 2003, 12:38 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines actuality as "reality; realism", or, in plural, "existing conditions". This, said the communications manager of the Arab satellite channel al-Jazeera, Jihad Ali Ballout, to Paul Holmes last night, is the essence ... More >>
HARD NEWS 21/03/03 - Special Edition
Friday, 21 March 2003, 1:16 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
One criticism that cannot so far be levelled against the new Kim Kill TV vehicle Face to Face is that it is dull. Having galloped through an interview last week with an American military strategist, Dear Kim hooked up this week with Saint John Pilger ... More >>
