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HARD NEWS 19/07/02 - And the Rain Stopped ...
Friday, 19 July 2002, 11:18 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... it's daft, really, the Worm - an electronic mood meter driven by 100 flakes who haven't worked out how they're voting yet. The usual swinging-voter lollies - crime, immigration and the Treaty - inevitably hit the hot button. Or, ... More >>
HARD NEWS 13/07/02 - Having Calmed Down
Saturday, 13 July 2002, 10:59 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I feel that this week's Hard News was a little too emotional. It was written in the hours after I interviewed Dr Poulter, and I was angry about what had happened. I remain convinced by him and his view that there was no reliable evidence of GM seed ... More >>
HARD NEWS 12/07/02 - It's Wrong
Friday, 12 July 2002, 11:42 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... two days ago I was making notes for a Hard News in which I would say, more in sorrow than anger, that a Labour-led government had misled us and broken the law. Turns out, there's no need. Please put aside any question of ... More >>
HARD NEWS 05/07/02 - The Phoney War
Friday, 5 July 2002, 11:12 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... talk about a phoney war. Has there ever been a major election issue so poorly understood not only by most of the public, but by the politicians and the press, as genetic modification? More >>
HARD NEWS 28/06/02 - Resting Up
Friday, 28 June 2002, 12:07 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
No Hard News this week - I'm having a rest after yesterday's GM Wire show on bFM, which went very well. More >>
HARD NEWS 21/6/02 - A Sporting Chance
Friday, 21 June 2002, 12:14 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... Auckland's alright, you know. I mean, how many other cities that have been namechecked by Wallpaper magazine have a volcano contingency plan? More >>
HARD NEWS 14/06/02 - Blessed Relief
Friday, 14 June 2002, 2:56 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ...so, July 27 for the general election. It's either an outrage, a blessed relief or of no particular account. Opposition parties, letters columns and talkback radio have been foaming, but vox pops seemed to indicate that the general ... More >>
Hard News 07/06/02: Wanna Fight?
Friday, 7 June 2002, 11:44 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... I won't revisit the Greens and GE at great length this week. It makes my head hurt. But it was gratifying that none of the emails I got after last week's bulletin were hysterical - a couple of people with Green connections ... More >>
HARD NEWS 31/05/02 - Everything's Gone Green
Friday, 31 May 2002, 12:28 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... well, you can't say politics isn't interesting this year. One partner in the governing coalition has wrecked itself and wound up with a party leader who can't lead it in Parliament, National's go-getter president has been told ... More >>
HARD NEWS 24/05/02 - Dear Prudence
Friday, 24 May 2002, 1:26 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... There was never going to be a whole lot in this Budget. The economy is flush, but Michael Cullen set himself a cap of $6.125 billion dollars in new spending for his first three years - and spent most of it in his first year. More >>
HARD NEWS 17/05/02 - Most Unseemly
Friday, 17 May 2002, 11:26 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... well, let's hope the police have the right men, and all of them. You didn't need to live in South Auckland to feel a sense of dread this week in the wake of three armed robberies - two of which culminated in cold-blooded ... More >>
HARD NEWS - Unfortunately The President Is A Chimp
Friday, 10 May 2002, 12:12 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
So, a bad week for the international far right, then. One shot in the Netherlands, another disabused of his dreams of victory in France.The French people, as we all know, gave themselves a fright, had a bit of a crisis over it, then stormed the polls ... More >>
HARD NEWS 03/05/02 - Fright Club
Friday, 3 May 2002, 12:08 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Who's for an early election, then? For the second week in a row, it appears that the entire Parliamentary Opposition is up for it - even if they'd clearly get the fright of their lives if it happened. More >>
HARD NEWS 26/04/02 - Soldiering On
Friday, 26 April 2002, 12:03 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
One of the more notable - and welcome - social shifts in the past decade or two has been the rehabilitation of Anzac Day. When I was younger, poppies were sold and the day was observed, but there was a disconnection of some sort - perhaps because the ... More >>
HARD NEWS 19/04/02 - Just Sign Here
Friday, 19 April 2002, 12:03 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
You'd have thought from the last few political polls that the Prime Minister was utterly untouchable. Labour is polling as high as 56 per cent - twice where National's at and miles clear of the need to patch together a coalition. More >>
Hard News: Burn & Get Fried
Friday, 5 April 2002, 1:33 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... it was the Easter of forgetting. The loss of the old certainty that, on Good Friday, everything that could conceivably be opened would be shut was telling. More >>
Hard News 28/03/02 - Harder Than Steel
Thursday, 28 March 2002, 9:34 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The story, 'Dunedin's curse' is a revisionist history that holds that Flying Nun was a vehicle for a group of dowdy South Island killjoys who hated pop music, never sold any records and ended "in tears" by selling out to Mushroom Records. More >>
HARD NEWS 15/03/02 - Spite, Arrogance and Deceit
Friday, 15 March 2002, 11:31 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... Chaos. Tears. People arrested but not charged with any offence, or driven away by private muscle. An autocrat who badgers and intimidates his political opponents and accuses them of things they have not done. No, not Zimbabwe. That's ... More >>
HARD NEWS 08/03/02 - Going to Hell
Friday, 8 March 2002, 1:18 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... can we make it official now? The United States of America is in the hands of a bunch of dangerous lunatics. First, the nonsensical threat of a military war against a so-called "Axis of Evil". Now, it's a trade war against ... More >>
HARD NEWS 01/03/02 - The Trouser Press
Friday, 1 March 2002, 12:19 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... was it rude of us to beat the long-suffering English cricket team while the Queen was here? Just asking. For as surely as a one-day batsman premeditates sweeping a spinner, there seemed to be an uncontrollable urge amongst the press and ... More >>
