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Is the MSM Too Scared to Publish Your Opinion Pieces?

Today, RNZ and both TV news channels lean well to the left, NZME and Stuff have both been captured by a radical interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, and the Otago Daily Times won’t touch a cartoonist like Garrick Tremain. Don Brash Conservative views are less and less welcome

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We Have Three Copies of  A Jab in the Dark to Give Away

We Have Three Copies of A Jab in the Dark to Give Away

We are running another fantastic giveaway for our members. The prizes are three copies of A Jab in the Dark: Covid Vaccines and the new Health Dictatorship by Ron Asher. On the 1st of May, we will give away three copies to three lucky BFD members. We will use an

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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

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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Are You Missing Your Membership Access?

If you are missing having access to BFD content and services we would LOVE to have you back. It is EASY to reactivate your expired subscription. If your subscription has not automatically renewed it may be… * because you hadn’t ticked for it to automatically renew when you set it

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The BFD Has a Beer Budget but Our Readers Have Champagne Tastes

Last year Stuff 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

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Does Govt Funding of Journalism Support a Healthy Democracy?

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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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 Chris Trotter. The Facts Don’t Matter Explaining the loss of public trust and confidence in the mainstream news

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Express Yourself

Express Yourself

The BFD is seeking motivated, concise, reliable, and professionally-minded volunteer 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

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Mmm…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 Nathan Smith. The Great Reset Is Inevitable Imagine you are the RBNZ governor. Every time you look at the

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WANTED: Weekend News Quiz Volunteer

WANTED: Weekend News Quiz Volunteer

Dear readers The BFD needs a volunteer to take over the Saturday News Quiz. Training will be provided but it isn’t hard to do. The News quiz can be added to over the week or created all at once on a Friday. The questions need to be based on

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Money for Nothing and Their Editors for Free

Money for Nothing and Their Editors for Free

You will see from the information below that the Government is paying the salaries of MSM Editors so that the Media organisations themselves do not have to fund the positions themselves from their own revenue. This means that the minute the Government stops the funding the Editors will lose their

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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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