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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

And it’s a stuff-up of its own – dated 21 months before the latest information it contains. 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

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The Battle Against Media Bias

PA Pundits – International Tim Graham papundits.wordpress.com Tim Graham is the executive editor at NewsBusters, and he is the director of  media analysis at the Media Research Center. His career at the MRC began in February 1989 as associate editor of MediaWatch, the monthly newsletter of the MRC before

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Propping up The Propaganda Press use Make a copy

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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Zuckerberg Explains the Censorship of the Laptop Story

Zuckerberg Explains the Censorship of the Laptop Story

Patrick Carroll fee.org Patrick Carroll has a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Waterloo and is an editorial fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. In a recent Joe Rogan podcast, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained the chain of events that led Facebook to censor the Hunter

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Rebel News Reacts

Rebel News and Avi Yemini have now published their article and video regarding our revelations this morning that the NZ Police sought any information they could use to enforce a decision that they’d already made to stop Avi Yemini and Rukshan Fernando from coming to New Zealand. The Platform

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Leaked: Police Begging Interpol for Intel on Avi Yemini

Last week Australian journalist Avi Yemini was prevented by Immigration NZ from entering New Zealand. Media at the time suggested that the decision was made by Immigration NZ, but an investigation by The BFD suggests that it was in fact the NZ Police who were acting to stop both Avi

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Comedy Gold from the Grauniad

Comedy Gold from the Grauniad

You know, I often say that I read the Guardian so that you don’t have to, but maybe you really should read it occasionally. After all, why deprive yourselves of comedic gems like this? For several years, Brian Stelter’s Sunday show on CNN, Reliable Sources, has been a

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

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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

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Is It Really All over for Dugongs?

Are dugongs really “functionally extinct” in China? That was the big environmental news, this week. But, as I always warn: When an article claims, “science says…” or “new study shows…”, assume that it doesn’t until proven otherwise. That means you should always try and go to the original source,

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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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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

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

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Is CNN Trying to Not Go Broke at Last?

Is CNN Trying to Not Go Broke at Last?

If the decline and fall of the legacy media had a human face, it would probably be Brian Stelter. Stelter was the woke-left media personified: a smirking, hyper-partisan hack whose bias was so blatant and undeniable that even his colleagues called him the “hall monitor”. He used his

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What the NZ Media Aren’t Telling You

What the NZ Media Aren’t Telling You

Family First staff writers familyfirst.org.nz Why is our mainstream media silent on the risks of puberty blockers and other gender transitioning treatments, especially since UK medical reviews have found that “puberty blockers put children at considerable risk”? This topic is being widely reported by international media (including Australian

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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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