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Raise Your Glasses to the BFD

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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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff doesn’t appear to have the “bightest” proofreaders. 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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The Merger of TVNZ and RNZ
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The Merger of TVNZ and RNZ

Alexander Gillespie Claire Breen University of Waikato Alexander Gillespie works primarily in international law, with specialties in international environmental; and the laws of war/international humanitarian law. Dr Claire Breen holds a BCL from the National University of Ireland (University College Cork). She also holds an LLM (International Law) 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 Plank in Stuff’s Eye

The Plank in Stuff’s Eye

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Information Opinion NZDSOS stands behind Dr Ate Moala and Barrister, Lisa Hansen who were recently accused of being involved in conspiracy by yet a further hit piece in Stuff. Our Rebuttal To Stuff’s Conspiracy Accusations Erin Gourley on Dr Ate

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Smeared by Govt and Media

Smeared by Govt and Media

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. In her post Cabinet press

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Hipkins Squirms and Makes like He Is Sgt. Shultz

Yesterday it was the turn of the Police Minister, Chris Hipkins, to face scrutiny over the overreach of Police reaching out to Interpol to dig dirt on Avi Yemeni. He made out like a slimmer version of Sgt. Schultz professing to not know anything. Given this story is now reaching

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A NZ Herald Beat-up

A NZ Herald Beat-up

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Last Sunday’s NZ Herald ran a lengthy article ripping into the Korean Christian outfit Shincheonji which has opened in New Zealand. I read the article twice and frankly it sounded fairly benign compared with say the Catholics. Precisely why The Herald called it a

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The Fight to Protect Youth From Social Media

Carolyn Moynihan mercatornet.com Carolyn Moynihan is the former deputy editor of MercatorNet. Is social media harmful to kids? Some people are still sceptical about this: a few experts, the American Civil Liberties Union and Big Tech itself, of course. Put a smart little device in the hands of teenagers,

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NZ Herald Attacks Freedom of Press 

NZ Herald Attacks Freedom of Press 

Information Opinion In a recent article it was revealed that the NZ Police had conspired with Interpol and NZ Immigration in order to dig dirt on two Australian journalists so as to defame and slander them and block them from entering New Zealand. It was also revealed that the NZ

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Biden’s Nasty Speech, while MSM Ignore Hunter

Biden’s Nasty Speech, while MSM Ignore Hunter

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. President Biden gave a nasty primetime speech on Thursday

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A Lament for Godzone

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 One of my favourite

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No Longer Trust

We Simply No Longer Trust Them

On Friday we saw just how committed the NZ Herald is to defending democracy. They aren’t. Instead their dark forces have been marshalled to act as state agitprop. They were deployed, not to welcome a whistleblower shining light on the scuttling cockroaches in our police and government, but rather

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Volley of the Day

Volley of the Day

Grab your popcorn. We have media doing their damnedest to protect the Government and their propaganda, aaand we have media doing their job. Yesterday, RNZ published this article on police withholding OIA information and misleading parliament on police spending on contractors and consultants. Police withheld the 2020 report from RNZ

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

In the NATO phonetic alphabet (radio communications), ‘Z’ is Zulu, so all these answers are wrong. 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

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No Filters. No Spin. Straight from the Horse’s Mouth

No Filters. No Spin. Straight from the Horse’s Mouth

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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