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Our Readers Have Champagne Tastes but the BFD Has 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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‘Digital Brownshirts’ at It Again!

‘Digital Brownshirts’ at It Again!

Catherine Salgado newsbusters.org Catherine Salgado is a Staff Writer with Media Research Center’s NewsBusters’ Free Speech America. She also has a column, Washington’s Bayonette, on The Rogue Review and her own SubStack newsletter, Pro Deo et Libertate. The Center for Countering Digital Hate, which previously classified Media

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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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Why We Are Not Happy

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science NZDSOS Information Opinion New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science (NZDSOS) has posted a well-referenced new article, this time on the latest appalling attempt to hide the devastating truth from the New Zealand public. The shot-that-shall-not-be-blamed is killing and maiming people, but these

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Make your mind up, RNZ, is it posing or posting a loss? 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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The Clown Show over the Ditch

The Clown Show over the Ditch

Another day, another round of japes, gambols and pratfalls in the clown show that is Australian politics. We’ve got the Amazing Albo the Backflipping Buffoon, Adam and his Disappearing Flag, and the magic of Lisa Wilkinson who rubs her ego and makes fair trials disappear. First off, the political

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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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How the ABC Funded a Capitol Ringleader

How the ABC Funded a Capitol Ringleader

It seems that hardly a day goes by without Australia’s taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda unit the ABC shrieking about the “threat of the far-right”. The ABC has also spent months regurgitating the US legacy media’s lies and conspiracy theories about the Jan 6 riot. Yet it has no qualms

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Five Things You Are NOT Paying For

Five Things You Are NOT Paying For

When you support The BFD your money is going towards the crucial basics such as internet service providers, content and Editorial services. It is not being spent on: Flash offices. The BFD has an online office where our staff from within NZ and Australia meet up every day to share

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What NZ Media Can’t or Won’t Tell You

What NZ Media Can’t or Won’t Tell You

It’s a sad fact of New Zealand under the crushing jandal of the Ardern government that its citizens are actively denied the right to be informed about the most momentous changes to their country’s governance in 182 years. The Fourth Estate is forbidden from upholding its duty to

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Must’ve been a big Crow if it needed dispersal. 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

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Newshub Most Biased NZ Media

Newshub Most Biased NZ Media

Two years ago a website was set up to measure media bias in New Zealand. Both Kiwiblog and The BFD  were mentioned and rated, as were left-wing blogs and all mainstream media. Back then Newshub was rated as the most biased (towards the left) of all the mainstream media. The

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I Prefer Health Advice from Doctors

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 Melissa Fleming is a

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Screenshot of NZ parliament MP’s contact page; an interesting way to spell details: 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

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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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