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Three Great Reasons to become a Member of the BFD

A Thank you gift. You read The BFD every day and really appreciate a community where you can express your point of view in a respectful and polite environment. A membership is a thank you gift to The BFD for providing the community that you love so much. Speaking of

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Want More People to Visit Your Blog?

The BFD can help. we have done all the hard work and have already built a huge audience but what we are always looking for more of is quality NZ content. We want to help motivated,  professionally-minded writers who are already writing quality content for their own blog site’s

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Psst Want a Free Taste of Silver Membership?

Psst Want a Free Taste of Silver Membership?

If you don’t have a Silver level membership yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by writer John Black. Time to Be the National Party One of a few treasured photographs from my undistinguished university career

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This Is a Battle We Can Win with Your Help

This Is a Battle We Can Win with Your Help

Stuff has reported on the extent of media bludging from government troughs. It is eye-watering just how much taxpayer coin some media organisations have availed themselves of. Media companies large and small claimed funding from the Government’s media package last year. In April 2020, Broadcasting, Communications and Media Minister

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Bronze Members & above Have Access to PRIVATE Platform MyBFD
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Bronze Members & above Have Access to PRIVATE Platform MyBFD

Over the years we have often been asked to help readers communicate with each other by acting as the middle man so that they could swap e-mail addresses and other contact details. We created our second platform MyBFD to cut out the middle man and to allow BFD community members

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What Will Happen if Independent Media Dies?

Can you imagine a New Zealand in which independent media is gone and all that remains is a small group of large media organisations muzzled by funding from the government? It’s not some faraway dystopia. It is already happening. With the rapid corporate consolidation of traditional news outlets and

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Check Out Our New BFD Merch

Check Out Our New BFD Merch

Want to show everyone you love The BFD as your ‘one source of truth’? Well, now you can. This year we launched The BFD Merch store. We have t-shirts, sportswear, polo shirts, hats, jackets, shorts, sweatshirts, mugs and Sonovamin and Boomslang wall art, shopping bags and accessories. We do not

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Shop Our Merch

Want to show everyone you love The BFD as your ‘one source of truth’? Well, now you can. This year we launched The BFD Merch store. We have * t-shirts * sportswear * polo shirts, * hats * jackets * shorts * sweatshirts * mugs * Sonovamin and Boomslang wall art, * shopping bags * accessories. We do not hold stock,

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Sick of Ads Cluttering up the Page?

Introducing the BFD BASIC subscription. No frills just Ad-free viewing and faster loading times 16c a day $1.15 a week $5 a month $60 a year Grab a Basic membership today.

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Sign Up to our FREE Daily Digest

If you are a regular reader of The BFD the easiest way to get your daily fix is to sign up to our FREE daily newsletter called the Daily Digest. It contains all the day’s articles complete with a photo and the first paragraph of each article so that

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Help Us to Keep the Lights on at the BFD

Help Us to Keep the Lights on at the BFD

Unicorn farts cannot power our platform and our unique content cannot be paid for with fairy dust. We 100% rely on YOU our dear readers to fund our content and platform that you all enjoy so much. We know that you are a fan of The BFD and that you

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MyBFD Makes It Easier for Members to Interact

MyBFD is our second platform that we created to extend the BFD community and to make it easier for members to interact with other members away from the public glare of General Debate and Backchat. The community at MyBFD is open to all members with Bronze level and above. ( **This

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Propping up The Propaganda Press

Public Interest Journalism Propaganda has received an $18m boost with the announcement of funding for an additional 110 journalists across New Zealand with “a specific mandate to produce stories that keep New Zealanders informed and engaged, and support a healthy democracy”. Don’t you just love the Newspeak? War is

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Upgrade Your BFD Membership with One Click
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Upgrade Your BFD Membership with One Click

Do you want more than just ad-free viewing? Upgrade your Basic Membership to Bronze to access: * Our puzzles * Our cartoons * Our private platform MyBFD Do you want access to the above content as well as Insight articles? Upgrade your Bronze Membership to Silver. You can easily upgrade between subscription levels

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Volunteer Writers Wanted

The BFD is seeking motivated, concise, reliable, and professionally-minded writers. Ideally, we prefer articles of 400-600 words in length. If you feel that the subject requires a longer post please keep it under 1000 words, (ideally under 800). Local news stories are as welcome as anything to do with sport

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Re-activate Your Expired Membership Today
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Re-activate Your Expired Membership Today

We understand that there are many reasons why you may have cancelled your membership or simply let it expire. Perhaps today could be the day that you rejoin us? We miss your financial support and would really love it if you would re-activate your membership. To re-activate, upgrade or change

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