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HARD NEWS 30/3/01 - Hit by a Train from the Past
Friday, 30 March 2001, 11:23 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... so we skittle Pakistan for 104, both our openers get centuries and it's all on for young and old - and the drought breaks over Hamilton. Bugger. More >>
HARD NEWS 23/3/01 - Confiscate Their Fax Machines
Friday, 23 March 2001, 1:13 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... was it ugly enough for you? In a tit-for-tat war so poisonous that the news media seemed embarrassed at being seen to cover it, National and Labour combined this week to drag each other's nearest and dearest through the gutter. More >>
HARD NEWS 16/3/01 - Labour Locks 'em Up Longer
Friday, 16 March 2001, 11:48 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... it was only a matter of time. Phil Goff had been quiet - too quiet. Somewhere in the naked city of his mind, a neon sign was flashing. That sign read "Tough on crime" and Goff wanted everyone to see it. He wanted the people ... More >>
HARD NEWS 09/3/01 - Spooks, Shocks and Submarines
Saturday, 10 March 2001, 4:10 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... the emergency doctors gather anxiously around the patient. They charge the paddles, shout "Clear!" and send a few thousand volts coursing through the patient's torso. They can't get a heartbeat. But they keep trying. For a decade. More >>
HARD NEWS 2/3/01 - From Dubious to Dangerous
Friday, 2 March 2001, 2:42 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... anybody else found themselves saying a quiet thanks they don't live in Europe right now? As foot and mouth disease courses around the British Isles, putting paid to the ebb and flow of national life, living in the world's most ... More >>
HARD NEWS 23/2/01 - Thus, The Sky Kissed Goodbye
Friday, 23 February 2001, 10:30 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... and so the weekend signed itself off with a mad, outrageous sunset that filled the sky, flitting from one colour to another, blooming lighter and darker, hanging on like someone who couldn't bear to leave a good party. More >>
HARD NEWS 16/2/01 - The Weather Turns Wicked
Friday, 16 February 2001, 4:00 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES .. and what an exciting week it's been and promises to be. The world's fastest fast bowlers have turned up just as the weather has turned wicked for fast bowling, the first secrets of the human genome have been revealed - and ... More >>
HARD NEWS 09/2/01 - Spinning on the Spot
Friday, 9 February 2001, 11:28 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... I'll keep it snappy because I've had a crappy week. You'd think a holiday on a Tuesday would help, but it didn't. If anything, it only added to the sense of dissolution because the holiday in question was Waitangi Day. More >>
HARD NEWS 02/2/01 - GBH: Gibberish By Hack
Friday, 2 February 2001, 4:13 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHJILES ... so Jenny Shipley is the leader of the National Party and will remain so until the next election at least. Bill English, who, depending on your view, was either too young, too unexperienced, too unpopular or just plain too ... More >>
HARD NEWS 26/1/01 - Gobsmacked All Over Again
Friday, 26 January 2001, 11:49 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... and a Happy New Year. Since we last communed over the ether I've circumnavigated the South Island - well, the bottom half anyway. More >>
HARD NEWS 22/12/00 - The Gateway to Summer
Friday, 22 December 2000, 10:31 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES .. and what a long, strange trip it's been. The Great Confidence Crash of 2000, the Winter of Discontent, soaring petrol prices, the Brain Drain the diving dollar, the failure to win an unspecified number of medals at the Olympics. More >>
HARD NEWS 15/12/00 - The Grinch By A Mile
Friday, 15 December 2000, 10:53 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... so, Closing the Gaps no longer. The Prime Minister is lancing another boil, banning another word or three. She is perfectly correct when she says that the phrase in question was spawned by the previous National government - it ... More >>
HARD NEWS 01/12/00 - This Little Prick Won't Hurt
Friday, 1 December 2000, 12:35 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... whatever its challenges this year, the coalition has frequently allowed us to forget that it is a minority government. But that fact became all too clear this week as the new district health boards legislation reached its reckoning. More >>
HARD NEWS 24/11/00 - Genoa? No, Not At All ...
Friday, 24 November 2000, 4:03 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... no, I am not on my way to Italy. I will see the All Blacks play from my couch and not the grandstand in Genoa. I'm now off to Europe in February. All very last-minute. It's a long story ... More >>
HARD NEWS 17/11/00 - A Vote of Confidence
Friday, 17 November 2000, 1:18 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... export growth is rampant, retail sales robust. The balance of payments, so long in the red, is heading for recovery, and business confidence will, at worst, be neutral in the months to come. How nice of Bill English to give ... More >>
HARD NEWS - The President's Mandate is Missing
Friday, 10 November 2000, 9:40 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... does it occur to anyone else that the run-up to the "real" Millennium is quite a bit more millennial than the one everybody celebrated last year? More >>
HARD NEWS 03/11/00 - Bad News, Good News
Friday, 3 November 2000, 11:52 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... unemployment drops below 6% for the first time in 12 years. 22,000 new jobs. More full-time jobs than there have ever been in the history of the country. Welcome to the bad-news-good-news economy. More >>
HARD NEWS 27/10/00 - Family Feuds
Friday, 27 October 2000, 11:40 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... was it ever a war? More like a feud based on something someone said when they were pissed, perhaps. But everyone ought to be glad that it's over. It is not that, in the wake of this week's business-to-government forum, everything ... More >>
Not Hard News: City Litter From Mark Cubey
Friday, 20 October 2000, 6:26 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
It's one of those extraordinary sun-drenched Fridays that we love in the capital. We did meeting in the sun on the waterfront. We completed projects. We received lots of nice feedback about our latest issue. More >>
HARD NEWS 13/10/00 - Pathologically Constructive
Friday, 13 October 2000, 1:08 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... well, thanks to the people who emailed me about last week's Hard News and to the people who've mentioned it through the week. And thanks especially to the folks who talked to me about Hard News at Derrick Carter. I love you too ... More >>
