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HARD NEWS 14/9/01 - Making Sense of It
Friday, 14 September 2001, 12:52 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... It was as strange as if we had dreamed it. And, in a very modern sense, we have. We have seen Armageddon, Deep Impact and Independence Day. We have seen New York laid waste in the movies. More >>
HARD NEWS 07/09/01 - The Refuge
Friday, 7 September 2001, 4:45 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... it is Spring. The days are longer, the light is stronger and there is, in the words of the great sage Murray Mexted, "a tingle up the spine - a tingle in the loins!" Not that we want to talk about the rugby ... More >>
HARD NEWS 31/08/01 - How Green Was My Rally
Friday, 31 August 2001, 1:08 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... well, it's a while since I saw a protest action this smoothly networked. The GE Free New Zealand bumper sticker is everywhere. I'm getting emails and being handed flyers in the street. You can expect this weekend's anti-GE rally ... More >>
HARD NEWS 24/8/01 - The News Without the News
Friday, 24 August 2001, 1:07 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES - a community rises in anger, crowding the local hall to demand justice and jobs for its children. People call each other stupid and gutless - and that's just the politicians. Yes, the West Coast is back in the news. More >>
HARD NEWS 17/8/01 - Radio Ga Ga!
Friday, 17 August 2001, 1:39 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... does anybody get the feeling that after all those years of El Ninos and La Ninas we're getting back to just having weather? Big, cold, winter weather it was too: the biggest snowstorm in 10 years. But for all that, it wasn't ... More >>
HARD NEWS 03/08/01 - Sorry, But Not A Sausage
Friday, 3 August 2001, 2:01 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... Part of me feels sorry for Christine Rankin. She was no doubt subject to some intellectual arrogance. She was unfortunate enough to have been appointed under one government and be unwanted by its successor. I think much ... More >>
HARD NEWS 27/7/01 - Scary Movie, Italian Style
Friday, 27 July 2001, 11:32 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... how was your week? Probably not as bad as that of anyone unlucky enough to be on the end of a Carabinieri's baton, I'd wager. More >>
HARD NEWS 20/07/01 - Letter to Mikey
Friday, 20 July 2001, 1:13 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Hi Mikey, Happy birthday! How's your week been? Mine's been a bit tiring, on account of the woman I love being stricken with the killer flu of 2001. What a motherfucker. Anyway, I'm taking the kids to school so I can't fit in a broadcast this week. You ... More >>
HARD NEWS 13/07/01 - Y Not?
Friday, 13 July 2001, 12:07 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... so the health system's running out of money, the seas are rising, Mobil's still a bunch of pricks and John Banks wants to be Mayor of Auckland. Oh well. At least the Christine Rankin trial's over. More >>
HARD NEWS 6/7/01 - Everybody Resign!
Friday, 6 July 2001, 11:33 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... and back, once again, to what TV3 News likes to call The Rankin Files. Mark Prebble, the head of the Prime Minister's department, gave evidence on his interactions with the CEO of Work and Income and somehow made it all look ... More >>
HARD NEWS 29/7/01 - The Ultimate Fashion Victim
Friday, 29 June 2001, 1:19 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... Most of the court cases we televise just aren't that interesting as news television. Seriously, when was the last time you saw an Employment Court case on TV? But this one, with spin doctors shadowing both sides and the plaintiff ... More >>
HARD NEWS 22/06/01 - Wild Ideas
Friday, 22 June 2001, 3:52 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... ideas are a dangerous commodity. Quite how dangerous was demonstrated this week when a few laboratory ideas escaped into the wild and caused widespread civil panic. More >>
HARD NEWS: Sucking on the Half-Time Orange
Friday, 15 June 2001, 1:23 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... we used to have a very good rugby team in Auckland. Often as not, they would win even when they played quite poorly. They'd often go down a try or two early, but you could comfortably bet that by the time they were sucking ... More >>
HARD NEWS 08/06/01 - Mmmmm ... Meat!
Friday, 8 June 2001, 12:00 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... bugger the politics. Bugger the news. There's a game of rugby on. A real one, evoking traditions that were alive before Rupert Murdoch was born. More >>
HARD NEWS 01/06/01 - All About Me
Friday, 1 June 2001, 10:45 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... my story will shock and horrify New Zealand. When I get my day in court the public will finally hear the terrible truth about the cruel things that have been said about me and done to me by people who can't handle the way I ... More >>
HARD NEWS 18/5/01 - Disquiet On The Westie Front
Friday, 18 May 2001, 12:43 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... if I've said it once, I've said it, well, more than once. This is a government destined to meet grief less for what it does than what it says. And that principle reached its peak this week with the messy business over the hitherto ... More >>
HARD NEWS 11/5/01 - Tokenism and Television
Monday, 14 May 2001, 9:32 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... 20 years ago, when I was a cub reporter, a bunch of us were shown around the local Air Force base, in a tour which took in a couple of Skyhawks. They were the pride of the force. "But aren't they just expensive tokenism?" asked ... More >>
HARD NEWS 04/5/01 - Thrashing And Slashing
Friday, 4 May 2001, 2:14 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES .... a few weeks ago, the Prime Minister offered the following advice to the embattled Alliance MP Phillida Bunkle: "If you're in a hole, stop digging." It was sound advice - and perhaps the government ought to have revisited it itself ... More >>
HARD NEWS FROM EUROPE: The Stolen Edition
Friday, 27 April 2001, 2:25 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... and greetings from Amsterdam, home of meat, bread, cheese and chocolate; of buds and beer, of tolerance and the apparently compulsory smoking of tobacco. More >>
HARD NEWS 27/4/01 - A Shambles in Paradise
Friday, 27 April 2001, 2:22 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... yes, it's me down the phone line again, but from parts no more distant or exotic than Pt Chevalier. Where, I am happy to report, the weather is pleasant and the vista a delight. More >>
