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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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Heading into Christmas More Monthly Memberships Please

Dear readers, while our advertising revenue is only a small part of our revenue compared to BFD memberships we do rely on it to pay for a lot of the basics to keep our site going. Over the holiday period, this drops significantly which is why we need more monthly

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Our Readers Enjoy Champagne on a Beer Budget

Our Readers Enjoy Champagne on a Beer Budget

Last year Stuff reported on the extent of media bludging from government troughs. It is eye-watering just how much taxpayer coin some media organisations have availed themselves of. Media companies large and small claimed funding from the Government’s media package last year. In April 2020, Broadcasting, Communications and Media

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Media Not Interested in Adverse Effects

Media Not Interested in Adverse Effects

Guy Hatchard hatchardreport.com Dr Guy Hatchard 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 PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. Information Opinion Researchers at Boston University

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Don’t Take the Guilt Trip

Don’t Take the Guilt Trip

The personal story told in that TV programme (No Maori Allowed) was very real to those telling it. That story is from a time in living memory. Where were all those other Maori of that generation not interviewed or part of that programme? If you enjoyed this article please share

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A Stuff Stuff-up

A Stuff Stuff-up

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A new name to me on Stuff’s website, Conor Knell, opened his reporting career this week with a spectacular blunder, so; “When Ricky Mitrov and his wife moved from Hawkes Bay to Dannevirke…” Conor you goose; Dannevirke is in Hawkes Bay. Indeed I recollect

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

More quiz idiocy by 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 experience more enjoyable click here to

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Bernadine Oliver-Kerby takes extended period of sick leave from AM due to Bell’s palsy Newshub What is Bell’s palsy? Bell’s palsy is an unexplained episode of facial muscle weakness or paralysis. It begins suddenly and worsens over 48 hours. This condition results from damage to the facial

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The NZ Herald obviously needs a map in the office. If you are North Korea, and fire a missile that lands 3000km east of Japan over Hokkaido – it wasn’t heading anywhere near ‘towards’ South Korea. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at

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Yesteryear

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Back in the 1990s when our once largest circulation newspaper Truth finally went belly-up. I bought the bound pre-war copies from the receivers for $15,000. These large volumes of broadsheet size papers make wonderful reading about an age when values were certainly different. For

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

What and where is When?  How does When enter the rising seas with the islands, when islands are already in the sea?  Who will let When know about its citizens? If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the

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The Platform Is Not the Resistance

The Platform Is Not the Resistance

Mark Hubbard Information Opinion I ran my own blog, Life Behind the Iron Drape, until 2015 when I stopped as I was merely repeating myself. So while still up, that blog is little read, and there is something I want to say. Sean Plunket’s The Platform is not the

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Well, which was it? 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 to browse

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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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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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The BFD Has a Beer Budget but Our Readers Have Champagne Tastes

Last year Stuff reported on the extent of media bludging from government troughs. It is eye-watering just how much taxpayer coin some media organisations have availed themselves of. Media companies large and small claimed funding from the Government’s media package last year. In April 2020, Broadcasting, Communications and Media

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