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HARD NEWS 10/6/00 - The Lost Boy
Friday, 6 October 2000, 10:34 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... a concerned young man gathers the country's best and brightest behind him and places a full-page newspaper ad begging the country's leaders to turn the economic ship around. It is a cry in the darkness. Actually, it's a Business ... More >>
HARD NEWS 29/9/00 - Here Comes the Sun
Friday, 29 September 2000, 1:49 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES - Funny how things change, isn't it? Not so long ago, the New Zealand Herald, in an editorial headed 'Mark Todd owes us all an explanation' had predicted shame and vileness if Todd so much as showed his face in Sydney. Go now, ... More >>
HARD NEWS 22/9/00 - Flaming Olympics
Friday, 22 September 2000, 2:27 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ...day eight and still no medals. If the Olympic Games really is all a corporate bread-and-circuses plot to distract us from the economic system and further etch a handful giant global brands on our punchdrunk psyches, then I ... More >>
HARD NEWS 15/9/00 - Poses and Protests
Monday, 18 September 2000, 10:29 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... you don't have to be out of the country for long to make the news seem strange on your return. A day will usually do it. After three days this week, the headlines on the plane on the way back seemed positively bizarre. More >>
HARD NEWS - Filtering Forbidden Words
Friday, 8 September 2000, 11:32 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... there are some people who some weeks don't get their Hard News by email when everybody else on the mailing lists does. This is because the companies they work for - hello everyone at Sky Television! - operate mail filters ... More >>
HARD NEWS: Talkback Means Never Having to Listen
Friday, 1 September 2000, 2:58 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... Following a recent pattern of government ministers getting into strife more for their words than deeds - come in, Michael Cullen - the associate minister of Maori Affairs, Tariana Turia, this week made a speech to the New Zealand ... More >>
HARD NEWS - The Money or the Bodybag?
Friday, 25 August 2000, 10:00 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... It's In the Bag, Top Town, Lotto - and now, another great Kiwi game - What Will That Dollar Do? More >>
HARD NEWS 11/8/00 - Beyond a Joke
Friday, 11 August 2000, 1:18 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... sometimes politics moves far beyond the stage where any rational citizen can give a rat's arse about it. Sometimes it happens twice in a week. More >>
HARD NEWS 4/8/00 - Good Faith and Going Without
Friday, 4 August 2000, 1:46 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... and so, the great shepherd reached out to his flock and said: "Alright, there's a bit of a price spike on - but I can ignore it if you do." More >>
HARD NEWS 28/7/00 - Flashes of Lucidity
Friday, 28 July 2000, 12:53 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... or might I say, let us operationalise the morning in a win-win way. Yes, it turns out that the new Minister of Maori Affairs is a native speaker of bureaucratese. More >>
HARD NEWS 21/7/00 - Test Metaphor Football
Friday, 21 July 2000, 3:51 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... it was the best of times, it was the worst of times. The All Blacks, up three tries and 24 points to nil after eight minutes of a painfully important test match. Then, the All Blacks, shuffling around, missing tackles, while ... More >>
HARD NEWS 7/7/00 - Just the Fax
Friday, 7 July 2000, 2:38 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... it's the season when we need to visit our local pharmacist. To top up on Vitamin C, get advice on which cold and flu remedies are right for us - and to send muckraking faxes to the Parliamentary press gallery. More >>
HARD NEWS 30/6/00 - Uncomfortably Shagged II
Friday, 30 June 2000, 11:23 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... so it's over for Dover. The post of Minister of Maori Affairs is temporarily vacant - and nobody in this whole sorry business is quite who they pretend to be. More >>
HARD NEWS 23/6/00 - Uncomfortably Shagged
Friday, 23 June 2000, 11:00 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... well, I was getting sick of weeks of patting the business community on the head and taking its temperature - and, lo, along came a whole new agenda. More >>
HARD NEWS: Budget, Business and Bum-Tickle
Friday, 16 June 2000, 1:28 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... Labour Finance Minister in boring Budget shock! Well, not quite ... Michael Cullen's maiden Budget was plenty interesting - not least in its disarming fiscal prudence. More >>
HARD NEWS 5/6/00 - Abort, Retry, Ignore?
Monday, 5 June 2000, 8:01 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... so the brakes are on. The full-steam progress of the Employment Relations Bill and the second phase of ACC reforms has been slowed down by Prime Ministerial edict. More >>
HARD NEWS: Prostitutes, Thieves and Gold-diggers
Friday, 26 May 2000, 1:29 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... what didn't happen: democracy hasn't been overthrown by an out-of-town con man and a few hired goons. Not here, anyway. More >>
HARD NEWS 12/5/00 - Convincing, Evasive, Likeable
Saturday, 13 May 2000, 12:39 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... well, it's finally happened. Like so many of the great and good, and like the Prime Minister herself, I'm to be sent off for "media skills" training. More >>
HARD NEWS 5/5/00 - Judge Not, Citizen
Friday, 5 May 2000, 12:56 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES . . . there can be few experiences more chastening than having to pass up on big a drum 'n' bass gig where you've got your name on the door because ... your gout's playing up. More >>
HARD NEWS 28/4/00 - Drunks, Puppets and Monkeys
Friday, 28 April 2000, 4:54 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... bear with me while I do my therapy. One of the reasons I keep on with Hard News is that it gives me the chance to shout at people who piss me off. It relieves me of the need to bore my friends and family with the details. More >>
