Today's Top Scoops - 18 April 2008
Media/Politics: Campaigning Journalism Hits Fact Speed Bump
Cold
Hearted: EPMU Says Company Has Lost 'Its Soul' Over
Closure
Patches:
Turia Plays Holocaust Card
Antarctica: Wind Power For Scott Base
Fiji:
Statement By Fiji PM On Steps Needed To Reform Electoral
System
Fisheries:
Greenpeace Takes Action To End Overfishing Of Pacific
Tuna
East
Timor: As Timorese Leader Returns, UN Envoy Calls On
Nation To 'Pull Together' For Peace
Burma:
Junta Detain 20 Pro-Democracy Activists
Bill Berkowitz: Is a Ten Commandments Weekend in your future?
Scoop Review Of
Books: Weekly Newsletter 18 Apr 08
On The Box: Mai Time Morphs to I Am TV
Sir Ed's Legacy: Himalayan Trust Upgrades
Schools
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LEAD STORY
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Media/Politics: Campaigning Journalism Hits
Fact Speed Bump - The Coalition for Open
Government is delighted that the Press Council has upheld
its complaint against the NZ Herald's Electoral Finance Bill
campaign. The Press Council found that the Herald's
front-page editorial last year contained a "mis-statement of
fact", which the paper should have promptly corrected. This
is the first time the Press Council has ruled that such a
prominent, vigorous and sustained campaign by a newspaper
contained a significant inaccuracy. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0804/S00282.htm
NZ POLITICS
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Cold
Hearted: EPMU Says Company Has Lost 'Its Soul' Over
Closure - Fisher & Paykel is closing its plant
in Dunedin because it wants cheap labour, says the
Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union. More
>> [1]
ALSO:
- Scoop Full Coverage - More >> [2]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0804/S00267.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00276.htm
Patches:
Turia Plays Holocaust Card - New Zealand First
law and order spokesman Ron Mark says the Maori Party should
apologise for Tariana Turia's remarks likening legislation
banning gang patches in Wanganui to the targeting of Jews in
Nazi Germany. More
>> [1]
ALSO:
- Maori Party - Turia: Wanganui Gang Insignia Bill [2]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00447.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0804/S00432.htm
BUSINESS SCIENCE & TECH
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Antarctica: Wind Power For Scott Base
- Antarctica New Zealand and Meridian Energy
are about to embark on a project to build the southernmost
wind farm in the world. More
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[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC0804/S00046.htm
WORLD
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Fiji:
Statement By Fiji PM On Steps Needed To Reform Electoral
System - Bainimarama said that the two
independent Commissions had indicated that while Fiji wishes
to return to democracy by holding elections in March, 2009,
this is impossible under the current electoral system as
this system itself is undemocratic. More
>> [1]
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00191.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00204.htm
Fisheries:
Greenpeace Takes Action To End Overfishing Of Pacific
Tuna - Greenpeace is in the Pacific to defend
the pockets of international waters between Pacific Island
Countries as marine reserves from rapacious fishing fleets
intent on fishing out the world's last tuna stocks - the
world's favourite fish. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00192.htm
East
Timor: As Timorese Leader Returns, UN Envoy Calls On
Nation To 'Pull Together' For Peace -
'President Horta's return is an opportunity for Timorese
society to pull together with renewed determination for the
future of Timor-Leste. Sustained peace depends upon the
commitment of everyone.'' -- UN Envoy Atul Khare. More
>> [1]
ALSO
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00195.htm
[2]
- http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00182.htm
Burma:
Junta Detain 20 Pro-Democracy Activists -
Burma's brutal junta has detained more than 20 political
activists as they marched through the northwestern city of
Sittwe earlier this week in a peaceful rally against the
military proposed constitution. Also arrested was Myo Nyunt.
More
>> [1]
ALSO
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00189.htm
[2] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0804/S00163.htm
COMMENT
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Bill
Berkowitz: Is a Ten Commandments Weekend in your
future? - House resolution congratulates the
Ten Commandments Commission and its supporters for their
`key role in promoting and ensuring recognition of the Ten
Commandments as the cornerstone of Western law'... More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00275.htm
LIFESTYLE
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Scoop Review Of
Books: Weekly Newsletter 18 Apr 08 - The
Sixth Man by James McNeish is reviewed by Mark Derby Paddy
Costello's Russian-Jewish wife Bella, we are told, 'had in
her beauty and sadness the sadness of small Jewish towns
hemmed in by curses'. More >> [1]
[1] - http://books.scoop.co.nz/
On The Box: Mai Time Morphs to I Am TV -
Set to hit your television screens this weekend is TV2's new
creative content-driven youth show, I AM TV. Gabrielle
Paringatai and Olly Coddington, former presenters for
long-running TV2 programme Mai Time, will be the key
reporters. More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0804/S00189.htm
Sir Ed's Legacy: Himalayan Trust Upgrades
Schools - Chalk and blackboards are still the
order of the day at the schools set up by Sir Edmund
Hillary's Himalayan Trust, but not for much longer More
>> [1]
[1] - http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0804/S00195.htm
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