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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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Stuff Exposed

Stuff Exposed

voicesforfreedom.co.nz This week the VFF team received an email from Stuff’s Andrea Vance requesting an interview for a story she was writing. The email specifically stated that they weren’t prepared to submit questions in writing. Over the past two years, VFF has conducted almost all of

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A Threat to Freedom of the Press

A Threat to Freedom of the Press

Mark Freeman Supporters of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange gathered at Parliament grounds in Wellington on Saturday and called for his extradition to the United States to be stopped. The protest, attended by 35 people, was held in solidarity with an event in London, where supporters formed a human chain from

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The Sorry State of the NZ Media

dailytelegraph.co.nz Note: This article has been edited and a couple of sentences from the original article removed. Dr Greg Treadwell is a senior lecturer in Journalism at AUT. Writing this week in Newsroom, Treadwell was of the opinion that certain principles of the NZ Media Council’s Code

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Propping up The  Propaganda Press

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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Ardern on the Left’s Losses

Ardern on the Left’s Losses

Espiner: Well, it wasn’t a great weekend for Labour Party candidates in the local body elections and presumably not a wonderful weekend either for their most high-profile backer, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. She gave ringing endorsements for Labour-aligned Wellington candidate Paul Eagle and to Auckland mayoral hopeful Efeso Collins

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The American educational system fails again. 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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No Filters. No Spin.

One of the things that The BFD offers you that the MSM does not is unfiltered, unspun Political news straight from the horse’s mouth. 1. Political Party Press releases: The MSM re-write them and only publish the bits they want their audience to read. They filter the content and

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Why We Need Your Support

Why We Need Your Support

The landscape for conservative media is getting darker and darker. The BFD is faced with competitors that are hock deep in Government funded troughs and social media giants that stifle freedom of expression. Last year The BFD copped a second 30-day ban on Facebook. Our first one was for posting

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The Good News They Don’t Want You to Know

The Good News They Don’t Want You to Know

As I wrote recently, facts, as opposed to the lunatic conspiracy theories of BLM, show that America is one of the best places in the world to be brown. Contrary to the media-left narrative, seven of the wealthiest eight ethnic groups in the US today are non-white. “White privilege” is

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Fudging the Data in New Zealand

Fudging the Data in New Zealand

Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Information Opinion Updated: 9:40pm 07 October 2022 An article in the NZ Herald “‘Flood of Noah-like proportions’: The studies revealing Long Covid’s hidden toll in NZ” by Jaimie Morton predicts that Long Covid will cast a decades-long shadow over the health and economy of

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Resistance Kiwi ‘Interviews’ Greg Treadwell

Resistance Kiwi ‘Interviews’ Greg Treadwell

resistance.kiwi Warning Satire Dr Greg Treadwell Senior Lecturer in Communications Studies at Auckland University of Technology where he teaches journalism, says that the people of the Parliament occupation – targeted by the Stuff Circuit mockumentary Fire and Fury – shouldn’t have any right of reply because it could “pollute our

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Number of Trans Youth up 70 per cent: the Media Is at Fault

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg newsbusters.org Tierin-Rose grew up in a large Christian family on the coast of Connecticut. After high school she moved to Alabama to dance with a professional ballet company while attending Liberty University. In 2020, there were roughly 24,000 new diagnoses of gender dysphoria from kids aged

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

This Stuff writer needs to “try” harder. 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

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Do You Trust the BFD?

Do You Trust the BFD?

The findings on trust in media organisations is out and the left-wing dominated media have taken a flogging. It seems that the public is well attuned to their lying ways and are voting with their feet. Newsroom reports: Less than half the New Zealand public now professes ‘overall trust’ in

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