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Yesterday's top 20 rating items (Hobbits excluded) on Scoop were...
In This Issue: Honey! Who Shrunk The Economy! - Rupert’s Holidays For Hardworking Hacks - Richard Long Fails To Front
For Todd Debate.
HOBBIT STORIES....
Not normally up before midday on Saturdays, one of this columnist’s frequent guilt twangs has been not continuing to
check out John Campbell’s weekend slot on National Radio.
Dover’s Early End ? Growth Up - Army Deserter - Ccormick Off Air - Murderous Attack – Chandra-Hills Death - Child Abuse
Reporting – Sex Harresment - Pyschiatric Patient Battle - Rings Piracy
Berkeley - Why do some stories, like the O.J. Simpson trial, the Thomas/Hill hearings or the Clinton/Lewinsky sex
scandal, run on for months and even years, while other, ostensibly more important stories hardly get noticed by the news
media?
The Government is welcoming a new report from the Controller and Auditor-General which is heavily critical of the
previous Government's failure to investigate the economic and social impact of the student loan scheme, Associate
Education (Tertiary ...
Today’s Questions concerned the subjects of:. Kyoto Protocol – Clark On Dover Samuels – Immigration Consultants –
Children’s Trusts – Whale Sanctuary – Phillida Bunkle On John Howard – Airways Coup – ERB – Biodiversity – TEAC – Public
Transport – Northland ...
An select group of right-leaning elites were behind, not one, but three coups against elected governments in Fiji.
Scoop's John Howard looks at the evidence.
It would seem the leader of the Roman Catholic faith has supporters in high places, including Lord of The Rings star Liv
Tyler’s father, Steve.
In response to…. Sludge Report #16 - Dover, Dover, Dover! … From Christchurch – Congratulations… And The Kennedy
Precedent… From an old reporter's notebook: The Moyle Muldoon and Carmen
The Chairman, Mr Hugh Fletcher and Panel Member, Ms Cathie Harrison of the Ministerial Inquiry into Telecommunications
will release the Inquiry Panel's Draft Report at a media conference.
A major discrimination scandal is breaking in America over the two-tier pricing policy of insurance companies. So far,
US$204 million is to be returned to policy holders. John Howard reports.
13: TV3 News
Qantas NZ – Colmar Brunton/TV3 Poll – GDP Figures – Consumer Confidence (poll) – Deserting Major – Policeman Crushed –
Lord Of The Rings – Wanganui Murder – Big Rain
SUVA: Rebel leader George Speight staged his attempted coup for Fijian paramountcy over Indo-Fijian and other races in
the Pacific country. But the real struggle has been a fight for power among the Fijian leadership.
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.
New information about the wide-ranging contacts between the Labour Party and the family of the woman involved in the
Dover Samuels affair has shown the Prime Minister's judgement to be far more compromised than we first believed, Acting
Opposition Leader ...
Pursuant to section 204(b) of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), 50 U.S.C. 1703(b) and section
301 of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1631, I hereby report that I have exercised my authority to declare a
national emergency ...
President Mugabe’s ZANU PF party is likely to hold onto power in Zimbabwe, although its majority has been significantly
reduced.
Initially when the Dover Samuels sexual allegations story broke, Sludge was in two minds whether to report the scandal
at all. Having heard on the journalism grape vine the allegations involved sex with a young underage girl, and that Mr.
Samuels ...
The following picture of a Hobbit House was supplied to Scoop by a friendly, anonymous, hobbit. Scoop beleives it is the
first published picture of Hobbitton, in the Waikato, taken from the ground rather than the air. The Hobbitton set is
being used for Peter ...
GDP (production based) rose 0.8% qoq in Q1 2000 - marginally higher than the median expectation of 0.7%. The RBNZ's had
forecast growth of 0.6% in its May Monetary Policy Statement. Activity in the quarter was 5.5% higher than the same
quarter a year earlier.