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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff gets it wrong again. It’s Brigham Creek Road. 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

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A Safe Haven or Big Brother?

A Safe Haven or Big Brother?

Janet Wilson commonroomnz.com Janet Wilson is a freelance journalist and communications consultant. This article was first published at The Common Room In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, the citizens of Oceania are watched everywhere they go through telescreens by the ruling Party’s omniscient leader Big Brother. To

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Credit Where Credit Is Due

Credit Where Credit Is Due

Yesterday I was awoken by many people messaging me about Nicky Hager getting an ONZM in the King’s Birthday Honours. They were wondering how I felt about that, asking whether or not I was outraged. My answer to them all left them bewildered and astonished. You see, I wished

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Apparently all copies were destroyed 13 years ago. 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

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Don’t Trust the ‘Jolly’ Pundits

Don’t Trust the ‘Jolly’ Pundits

Tim Graham Tim Graham is executive editor of NewsBusters and host of the NewsBusters Podcast. His career at the MRC began in February 1989 as associate editor of MediaWatch, the monthly newsletter of the MRC before the internet era. newsbusters.org Liberals can be really hateful people on television, and

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After Tiananmen: Quotes from the US Media

After Tiananmen: Quotes from the US Media

Rich Noyes Rich Noyes was research director at the Media Research Center from 2003 to 2021. Previously, he directed the MRC’s Free Market Project (1999 to 2003) and served as Director of Media Analysis for the MRC (2001 to 2003). From 1987 to 1999, he was Political Studies Director

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Can the Media Be Independent? Not Really

Can the Media Be Independent? Not Really

Vincent Geloso Vincent Geloso, senior fellow at AIER, is an assistant professor of economics at George Mason University. He obtained a PhD in Economic History from the London School of Economics. aier.org A small scandal has raised ire on social media after Twitter added the mention of “publicly funded

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Oh, So Now You’re Concerned?

Oh, So Now You’re Concerned?

After playing at being propagandists and Ardern’s little cheerleaders as she stomped all over our rights during Covid and after taking massive bribes in the form of funding from the Public Interest Journalism Fund, the legacy media are now all of a sudden concerned at the Government’s over-

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Hey Stuff, you nonces – it’s Brigham Creek Road. 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

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Will the Real AOC Twitter Account Please Stand Up?

Will the Real AOC Twitter Account Please Stand Up?

As I recently wrote, one thing authoritarians really can’t stand is being made fun of. Mockery is the great leveller. It cuts down kings, tyrants and dictators. The Nazis pursued people for training their dogs to mock the Hitler salute. Jokes about Stalin were a direct ticket to the

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The Hypocrisy of Big Tech and AI

The Hypocrisy of Big Tech and AI

PA Pundits – International papundits.wordpress.com Autumn Johnson Autumn Johnson is a contributing writer at the NewsBusters site, and she is a practicing attorney licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. When not working, Autumn enjoys reading, writing, playing video games and spending time with her

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WHO Wants to ‘Promote Desired Behaviors’

WHO Wants to ‘Promote Desired Behaviors’

Michael Nevradakis, PH.D ronpaulinstitute.org The World Health Organization (WHO) is proposing a set of recommendations for “social listening surveillance systems” designed to address what it describes as a “health threat” posed by online “misinformation”. The WHO’s Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threats (PRET) initiative claims “misinformation” has

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Just Censorship by a Different Name

Just Censorship by a Different Name

newsbusters.org Elon Musk’s Twitter stumbled into a censorship controversy this week as the platform initially limited the visibility and ability to share The Daily Wire’s movie What is a Woman just as The Daily Wire host Matt Walsh’s documentary made its debut on the Blue Bird.

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The only thing that is broken is Stuff’s proofreading. The term is actually “brake checking” (a deliberate act to force the vehicle following to brake hard and maybe take evasive action) If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom

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Fact-Free Tanties from Stan and His Fans

Fact-Free Tanties from Stan and His Fans

The fact-averse pearl-clutching by Stan Grant and his legacy media groupies continues unabated. As you may recall, Australia’s most famous tanning bed afficionado threw a massive tanty last week, in response to the backlash against his massive tanty the week before. He’s quite the taxpayer-funded

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