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VFF Lodges Formal Complaint with Media Council

VFF Lodges Formal Complaint with Media Council

voicesforfreedom.co.nz On September 9, VFF filed a formal complaint with Stuff regarding their Fire and Fury opinion piece. The complaint was filed on a Friday and by midday Monday we received the following reply from the Stuff Editor-in-Chief, Janine Fenwick. Given this response was unsatisfactory and failed to

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Why the Press Peddle Hate

Why the Press Peddle Hate

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Information Opinion Paula Penfold’s publicly-funded mistreatment of earnest and politically savvy people protesting extreme government overreach has had a few positives. The parliamentary protest hit piece itself was actually a while coming but its timing was perfect – for freedom-loving people

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Government Spending More than RNZ and TVNZ Are Worth

Government Spending More than RNZ and TVNZ Are Worth

Melissa Lee asked a good question in Parliament about the more than $300 million spending on the merger of Radio New Zealand and TVNZ. It turns out that the Government is planning on spending more on the merger than the combined value of what both companies are worth. Worse still,

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One School Condemned the Other Celebrated

One School Condemned the Other Celebrated

Clay Waters newsbusters.org Clay Waters was director of Times Watch, a former project of the Media Research Center. His self-published whodunnit? is Death In The Eye. A massive two-year New York Times’ investigation condemning Jewish yeshiva schools appeared on the front page on Sunday, September 11. The core accusation

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Apart from mangling the titles, it should be Wessex, not Essex. 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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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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Shock! ABC Almost Tells Truth

Shock! ABC Almost Tells Truth

Well, I’ll be buttered on both sides! The ABC is almost telling the truth about “renewables”! No, they’re not telling the truth about the massive pollution in developing countries caused by mining and manufacturing components for windmills and solar panels. And no, they’re not telling the truth

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Does Govt Funding of Journalism Support a Healthy Democracy?

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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The Story That Made the Washington Post Care about Balance

Tim Graham newsbusters.org 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. The Washington Post and its journalism lecturers like Margaret

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Petals Dish It Out, Can’t Take It

Petals Dish It Out, Can’t Take It

Allow me to introduce New Zealand’s young people to a couple of wise old sayings that will serve them well. First: If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Second: If you’re going to talk the talk, walk the walk. Both of these sayings

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Russell Brown

Can Russell Brown Tell the Truth?

Over the weekend urban cyclist, pannier bag and lamb chop recipe aficionado, Russell Brown, decided to enter into the debate about crime on his Twitter feed. He rather gloatingly declared victory over his detractors and published this tweet: A keen observer will note that Russell Brown is only publishing nine

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

How cruel is that? Two Mondays in one week. Thanks BoP Times. 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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Comparing Apples with Apples: The Spinoff and The BFD

The Spinoff has a similar-sized audience to The BFD but the similarities end there. The BFD is funded 95% by our 1600+ members and 5% by our advertising revenue. The BFD serves a broad church of political views that includes libertarian, centre-right, and conservative readers of whom the majority are

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Trust Us to Inform and Entertain You

Trust Us to Inform and Entertain You

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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Mother of the Day

Mother of the Day

Year 12 student and media contact for School Strike for Climate Wellington, Izzy Cook, spoke to RNZ’s “Morning Report” on Friday. Newstalk ZB’s Heather du Plessis-Allan rang Miss Cook for an interview on Friday evening. By Sunday evening Izzy’s mother, Rose Cook, had composed a reply and

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

I don’t see a crow, much less an Imperial State Crow. 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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