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Hawaii fans who watched ABC’s “The Bachelorette” Jillian Harris bid aloha to Reid Rosenthal after their romantic date on Maui will be seeing a lot more of the Hawaiian Islands as season five of the hit romance reality show from Warner Horizon Television wraps up on Hawaii’s Big Island in a two-hour season finale on July 27.

“The feedback from viewers who watched the Maui episode has been incredible with many sharing their excitement about the beautiful scenery, the impressive diversity of activities, and how they now want to visit Hawaii,” said John Monahan, president and CEO of the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau, the State of Hawaii’s marketing agency for North America who had a major role in bringing this show to the islands. “Hawaii’s Big Island will be a notable contrast with its rich lava landscape, and prominent beachfront resorts. Being home to all but two of the world’s main climate zones, viewers will see just how huge, diverse, and exciting the Big Island really is.”

Jillian and the final two bachelors – Ed Swiderski and Kiptyn Locke – find themselves on incredible final dates that take them across the Big Island highlighted by an aerial tour of Kilauea volcano’s active lava flows with Sunshine Helicopters, landing beside a secluded Hilo waterfall for a private barbecue with KapohoKine Adventures, and discovering a remote black sand beach with Captain Zodiac Rafting Adventures.

After exploring the diversity of the island, the couples continue their dates with dinner and alone time at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, and The Fairmont Orchid, Hawaii resorts on the legendary Kohala Coast, the sun-soaked northwest side of the island that was once a popular retreat for Hawaiian royalty.

A private oceanfront estate within Mauna Kea Resort provides the setting for what could be a life changing moment for Jillian as she makes her final decision. As the largest of all of the main Hawaiian Islands combined and home to Maunakea, the world’s tallest mountain, Hawaii’s Big Island is a perfect symbol of the enormous decision to be made there.

Hawaii has been named the top destination for weddings, honeymoons, and romance many times over the years by the readers of the nation’s top bridal publications, news and travel websites, and travel suppliers. Viewers will get a glimpse of the Aloha State’s natural beauty and relaxing atmosphere via two hours of prime time national television.

Does Jillian find her soul mate? Tune in to ABC’s “The Bachelorette” on July 27 for the season finale. For information about the show, visit ABC.Go.com/Primetime/Bachelorette. For information on Hawaii, the Islands of Aloha, visit GoHawaii.com or call toll-free 1-800-GOHAWAII.

Flush with the record-setting audiences sucked in by the FOX network’s “American Idol,” KHON announced today that the latest Nielsen Survey showed all of its newscasts at the top of the local news heap. Although the station was the last of the local stations to introduce a 5 p.m. local news show, the broadcast came in first for the first time between April 29 and May 26. KHON has already long dominated the ratings for its morning programming and 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts, both weeknights and weekends.  DISCUSS

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Unionized employees at the Honolulu Advertiser held a lunch-hour rally outside the newspaper building yesterday to call attention to the fact that, as of Monday, they have been working without a contract for a year. They also withheld most of their bylines in yesterday’s edition. Gannett, the paper’s owner, is reportedly seeking a wage freeze on top of other concessions, despite reporting $1.16 billion in profits last year — a 40 percent increase.

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Hawai`i Rep. Ed Case is part of a bipartisan campaign in Congress to reverse last week’s controversial decision by the Federal Communications Commission to remove longstanding restrictions on media ownership. Case is a cosponsor of H.R. 2052 and H.R. 2212, two bills among many in both the House and Senate directed at the FCC. The first bill would revise the Communications Act of 1934, and the second would force the FCC to comply with the act’s original mandate “favoring diversity of media voices.”

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The owner of Hawaii’s largest daily newspaper has acquired a series of magazines geared toward tourists and its associated website, according to a report in today’s Pacific Business News. Gannett — one of the nation’s largest media conglomerates and stakeholder in the Hawaii.com portal — has bought the “101 Things to Do” guides and website from their longtime publisher, Gregg Gardiner of Kaua`i.

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Today she’s 39 years old, but she still finds it hard get out from under the shadow of what happened to her when she was 13. Kaua`i resident Samantha Geimer — then Samantha Gailey — was the ostensibly anonymous statutory rape victim of filmmaker-in-exile Roman Polanski, then 43. After years of relative obscurity and few media appearances, the controversial Academy Awards nomination of Polanski’s “The Pianist” has put her back in the spotlight. Today’s Honolulu Star-Bulletin features a rare interview with Geimer, in which she says Polanski’s Oscar chances shouldn’t be hurt by what he did 26 years ago.

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The U.S. media is “becoming more and more an echo chamber” of the Bush administration and not asking hard questions about possible war in Iraq, a network news veteran said Wednesday. “If it’s unpatriotic to ask questions, we’re in terrible shape,” said Sander Vanocur, who joined NBC news in 1957 and went on to become White House correspondent. “It’s not treasonous to voice our concerns.”

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The “24/7 media culture” that dominates TV news today will be tested if America goes to war with Iraq, an associate editor and op-ed columnist for The New York Times said recently in Honolulu. Frank Rich said journalists may very well “march in lock-step” with the Bush administration’s view of events.

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In a series of articles published today in The Sacramento Bee, travel editor Janet Fullwood gives West Coast readers an overview of Honolulu attractions that can save a rainy day. She provides an extensive write up of Bishop Museum and `Iolani Palace, and a rundown of several weather-proof destinations, from the new Hawaii State Art Museum to Doris Duke’s Shangri La. Of `Iolani Palace she writes, “From a symbolic point of view, Honolulu’s `Iolani Palace is as important to Hawaii as Buckingham is to Britain.” Her recent trip also provided fodder for a piece on airport security screeners.

In a series of articles published today in The Sacramento Bee, travel editor Janet Fullwood gives West Coast readers an overview of Honolulu attractions that can save a rainy day. She provides an extensive write up of Bishop Museum and `Iolani Palace, and a rundown of several weather-proof destinations, from the new Hawaii State Art Museum to Doris Duke’s Shangri La. Of `Iolani Palace she writes, “From a symbolic point of view, Honolulu’s `Iolani Palace is as important to Hawaii as Buckingham is to Britain.” Her recent trip also provided fodder for a piece on airport security screeners.