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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

More targeting of a readership aged three or younger from Stuff. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading

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Political Journalists

Political Journalists

Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The most futile job in New Zealand right now is that of a political columnist. With four weeks to go to the election, they pretend the outcome is uncertain when they know full well the election is done and dusted. That’s because this is easily

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Here’s What You Need To Know

Here’s What You Need To Know

Erica Mealy University of the Sunshine Coast Late last week, Google announced something called the Privacy Sandbox has been rolled out to a “majority” of Chrome users, and will reach 100% of users in the coming months. But what is it, exactly? The new suite of features represents a fundamental

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Someone hasn’t been paying attention. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more enjoyable click here

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The News Media Need to Keep Up

The News Media Need to Keep Up

I have news for the news media. They are flogging a dead horse. Their favourite nag, the Labour Party, has broken down. It’ll be lucky to get near the starting gates, never mind start. The hurdle to jump, the election, is a jump too high. All bets are on

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Only in NZ

Only in NZ

Only in New Zealand are the media concerned about protecting the families of criminal gang members. Listen here then discuss it on The BFD. If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more enjoyable click here to browse our

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Oh dear, NZ Herald. To see what? Oh, I sea: it’s a typo. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to

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Do You Believe In Coincidence?

Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior

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Can Hearts Change Minds?

Can Hearts Change Minds?

Juan S. Morales Wilfrid Laurier University theconversation.com Social media use has been shown to decrease mental health and well-being, and to increase levels of political polarization. But social media also provides many benefits, including facilitating access to information, enabling connections with friends, serving as an outlet for expressing

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

He may well have been reverent, Stuff, but I’m certain the title here should be Reverend. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove

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Get the Ads off the Front Page

Get the Ads off the Front Page

Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com The Media Insider column on the New Zealand Herald website each week is a column, funnily enough, about the media.

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

From a reader: I don’t often go to the Herald, but their journalistic standards seem even worse than those of Stuff – which I doubted was possible. This one article has so many basic errors. Did the constable’s head really “stumble several feet” and if so, how did it

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff gets brought and “bought” confused. No one paid for her Stuff. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your

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Claire Trevett Trying to Keep Chippie Crisp

Claire Trevett Trying to Keep Chippie Crisp

Claire Trevett, if her article in the Weekend Herald is anything to go by, seems to think Labour are still in the game. I hate to give her the bad news re Chippie, but the chips are down and the man and his party are gone-burgers. She says the

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Media Averted Gaze for Six Years

Media Averted Gaze for Six Years

When Amanda Luxon gets gifted thousands in public money in 2024 to create a reality TV show which will be shown on NZ’s taxpayer-funded TV in prime time, the media will avert their gaze and pretend there is “nothing to see here”: like they did when Clarke Gayford

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