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HARD NEWS 14/4/00 - No Laughing Matter
Friday, 14 April 2000, 11:18 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... some weeks the headlines are not kind to news commentators. There are precious few laughs in the likes of the cervical screening inquiry, which seeks to trawl over one man's disastrous misreading of test results over the span ... More >>
HARD NEWS 7/4/00 - Sympathy for the Devil
Friday, 7 April 2000, 2:30 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... sometimes, probably times when you're heavily sedated, you have to love the dear old New Zealand Stock Exchange. As markets the world over slumped on Tuesday, the NZSE boomed. More >>
HARD NEWS 24/3/00 - The Gossip According to Paul
Friday, 24 March 2000, 3:28 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... it is surely the issue of the hour for New Zealanders. It has commanded the front pages of both Sunday newspapers and the lead spot on 60 Minutes, taken pride of place Good Morning with Mary Lambie and seized the cover of the Woman's ... More >>
HARD NEWS: The Thrusting Organ of Investigation
Friday, 17 March 2000, 1:19 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... memo to the Employers Federation, the Business Roundtable and various other interests: We will soon have industrial relations laws that conform to basic international standards. Get over it, stop whining and get on with it. More >>
HARD NEWS 10/3/00 - Maximum Moral Deficiency
Friday, 10 March 2000, 5:48 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES - and so the Prime Minister is tested on foreign affairs - and passes. More >>
HARD NEWS 11/2/00 - Soft Soap and Low Drama
Friday, 11 February 2000, 3:57 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... if we needed a reminder that Parliament is a different place than it used to be, it came in some of the new MPs' maiden speeches this week. More >>
HARD NEWS 3/2/00 - Eh oh! Tellytrubbies!
Friday, 4 February 2000, 11:21 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... and now is the summer of our discontent. No, it's not that we're really feeling dark in out hearts - give or take a Titewhai or two, we seem fairly happy in ourselves. But - as the organic butcher said to me yesterday - what ... More >>
HARD NEWS: Imagining the Era of Inclusion
Friday, 24 December 1999, 12:30 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... it's just over 10 years since the Berlin Wall was opened, effectively ending the partition not only of the German capital, but of Europe itself; and just short of 10 years since Nelson Mandela was released from internment, setting ... More >>
HARD NEWS: The Election That Wouldn't Die
Friday, 17 December 1999, 2:30 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... so there we were, Friday night in Sydney, a cluster of enterprising knowledge workers with a high tolerance for fun. And could we get a taxi? We could not. Not at the same time, to the same place, anyway. More >>
HARD NEWS: This Week is Another Country
Friday, 3 December 1999, 1:58 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... it is a new dawn, is it not? Well, it was a hell of a night anyway, and perhaps we ought to leave the Tony Blair stuff well alone. The news is this: the mood has lifted. Auckland has been fine and mild all week and, without ... More >>
HARD NEWS 26/11/99 - Bring it On!
Friday, 26 November 1999, 8:40 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... well, we're nearly there. I had intended to deliver a high-minded meditation on the need for change. Indeed, I will. But before that perhaps we ought to look at the campaign - and at ourselves. More >>
HARD NEWS 19/11/99 - MMP = More Moral Panic
Sunday, 21 November 1999, 12:57 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... trust the Tories, eh? Put them under pressure and they try and manufacture a moral crisis. There's been Ecstasy, there's been Home Invasions - and this week it's drugs and terrorism with the Green Party. More >>
HARD NEWS 13/11/99 - Arse and Letters
Saturday, 13 November 1999, 2:06 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... well, if a week is a long time in politics, time appears to stretch even further under a general election campaign. More >>
HARD NEWS: Lies, Losses, Lists and Lingerie
Friday, 5 November 1999, 12:37 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... so the All Blacks lost. They fell to bits for 20 minutes in the second half of their World Cup semi final, blew a 14 point lead and surrendered the match and their Cup hopes to a French side they thrashed 54-7 at the beginning ... More >>
HARD NEWS: Presentation Reality and Winston Peters
Friday, 29 October 1999, 3:35 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
HARD NEWS is first broadcast in Auckland on 95bFM around 8.45am on Fridays and replayed around 4.30pm Friday and 10am Sunday on The Culture Bunker. You can listen to 95bFM live on the Internet. Point your web browser to http://www.95bfm.co.nz . You will ... More >>
HARD NEWS - Exposing the Soft White Underpants
Sunday, 24 October 1999, 10:50 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... so anyway, there I was in Melbourne when Jeff Kennett got rolled. Did you know I was there at either end of Auckland's great Ranfurly Shield run, too? More >>
HARD NEWS 8/10/99 - Beware the Dick Fix
Friday, 8 October 1999, 4:10 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
HARD NEWS is first broadcast in Auckland on 95bFM around 8.45am on Fridays and replayed around 4.30pm Friday and 10am Sunday on The Culture Bunker. A digest appears monthly in Re:Mix magazine. You can listen to 95bFM live on the Internet. Point your web ... More >>
HARD NEWS: Nice Dress, Shame About the Economy
Friday, 24 September 1999, 2:54 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
GOOD DAY MEDIAPHILES ... so sorry to have missed last week's post-Apec appointment, but I was drugged by a shadowy group with links to powerful international financial interests and then taken to a secret location. More >>
HARD NEWS 10/9/99 - Blood and Fear
Saturday, 11 September 1999, 11:37 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
HARD NEWS is first broadcast in Auckland on 95bFM around 8.45am on Fridays and replayed around 4.30pm Friday and 10am Sunday on The Culture Bunker. A digest appears monthly in Re:Mix magazine. You can listen to 95bFM live on the Internet. Point your web ... More >>
HARD NEWS Who Needs Lotto When You're Michael Fay?
Sunday, 5 September 1999, 1:58 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
(Scoop Advisory: Scoop is delighted today to welcome a new columnist to the site. Russell Brown, a freelance writer for IDG, The Listener and Unlimited Magazine should be well known to readers. His HARD NEWS column is broadcast on radio 95bFM in Auckland ... More >>
