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Disqus Hints and Tips
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Disqus Hints and Tips

It was suggested to me this week that it would be helpful to put together some hints and tips about commenting using Disqus on The BFD. Hints: 1. Disqus is a completely separate business from The BFD. 2. Don’t confuse your FREE Disqus commenting account with your paid for

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The Latest Media Bias Results

The Latest Media Bias Results

Last year a website was set up to measure media bias in New Zealand. Both Kiwiblog and The BFD were mentioned and rated, as were left-wing blogs and all mainstream media. Now that a year has passed I thought that it was time to compare how we are rated now

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73% Of Police Want to Be Armed

73% Of Police Want to Be Armed

A recent NielsenIQ-run biennial Police Association Member Survey of close to 6,000 constabulary members has revealed that 73 percent of them now believe they should be generally armed. That decision however is not in their hands. Commissioner Andrew Coster concedes the escalation in gun-related incidents is “worrying” and “unnerving”

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Ignorant Face of the Day

Ignorant Face of the Day

If you are going to prattle on about history as a justification for smearing the ancestors of many Pakeha New Zealanders then you should at least take the time to get your facts straight. Given that today’s ignorant face of the day is the Race Relations Commissioner it is

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Inconvenient Fact of the Day

Inconvenient Fact of the Day

It is an inconvenient fact that not only has the gun buyback from licenced law-abiding gun owners not made New Zealand safer, but the number of shootings in New Zealand since then has increased from maybe once a year (if that) to monthly if not weekly shootings being reported in

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One THOUSAND Subscribers

One THOUSAND Subscribers

Today we gained our 1000th customer Paddy! A HUGE thank you to our ONE THOUSAND supporters for putting their money where our mouth is. We couldn’t keep the lights on without you. A MASSIVE thank you also to our incredible team of volunteers who enable us to produce a

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Three Subscriptions to Go…

On Sunday we celebrated The BFD’s second birthday On the day we launched two years ago I set myself a target of growing The BFD from ground zero to 1000 subscriptions. I know many may have thought that my goal was too ambitious and perhaps even foolish but it

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Fake Headline of the Day

Fake Headline of the Day

The NZ Herald wins the BFD award for FAKE headline of the day with this doozy… Reading that headline objectively the average reader would expect the article to be about the deaths of six people from Covid-19. It is a deliberately misleading headline as not one of the six people

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It Has Been Two Years Already: Happy Birthday to the BFD

It is hard to believe that two years have passed since we first launched The BFD and what a wild ride it has been. I want to take this opportunity to sincerely thank our amazing BFD team. Without them, there never would have been a launch, let alone a brand

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An Experiment That I Am Willing to Try

An Experiment That I Am Willing to Try

Every now and then I get a request from a reader who wants to support The BFD but doesn’t want to use a credit or debit card or the payment platforms Paypal or Stripe. I am aware that due to the age demographic of our readership there are many

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Covered Face of the Day

Covered Face of the Day

Why on earth has Jacinda Ardern let today’s covered face of the day and her children into New Zealand? She won’t even name the terrorist who committed the Christchurch massacre yet she is welcoming with open arms a woman who was married to an ISIS terrorist who committed

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Today’s face of the day has been de-platformed in New Zealand in the past and is hoping that this year he will be allowed to enjoy freedom of speech. The philosopher, who has been recognised as the Australian Humanist of the Year and also labelled the most dangerous person

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BFD Subscriptions vs Mainstream Media Money

BFD Subscriptions vs Mainstream Media Money

Last week NZ Mainstream Media were the recipients of Government handouts and all the money came with strings attached. BusinessDesk reported on the winners of the first round of Government largesse that officially is described as the Public Interest Journalism Fund. The beneficiaries include: Stuff, who was given $300,000.

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Groundswell NZ Protests

Groundswell NZ Protests

The BFD staff attended as many of the protests on Friday as possible. We ran and updated this post continually throughout the day in order to keep those that couldn’t be there informed in order to highlight the magnitude of unrest around the country, and also to provide a

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