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This Is a Battle We Can Win with Your Help

This Is a Battle We Can Win with Your Help

Stuff has 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 Minister

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Covid-19: What Is the Truth?

Covid-19: What Is the Truth?

Maurice McGrath PhD New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Commentary: Maurice McGrath PhD Warning Long read. 1317 words. Dr Blaylock bears witness to the truth by offering a comprehensive summary of the orchestrated political unravelling of medical ethics and the traditions of science, in concert with the

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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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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

Just in case we missed it the first time, RNZ helpfully repeat themselves. 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

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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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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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Just the Facts, Man

Scholar Wilfred Reilly has noted that tv crime shows like “Law and Order” portray a grossly disproportionate picture of criminals as white, in complete contradiction of actual crime figures. YouGov surveys also show that public perceptions of America are vastly out of step with reality. For instance, Americans believe that

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Never heard of a man who is twice shirtless. 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 BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Shame. Even Stuff’s sports reporter gets it 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 ads to make your reading experience more

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Facebook’s Deal with News Giants

Brett Wilkins commondreams.org Press freedom and antitrust advocates on Friday derided both Facebook and corporate media beneficiaries of the tech titan’s multimillion dollar spending spree following reporting that the company is rethinking its investments amid increasing regulatory pressures and a shift away from news partnerships. “For years, Facebook

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

It’s a good job Stuff aren’t in the mapping business – Glen Eden isn’t even close to “central Auckland”. 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

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What Hosking Doesn’t Want to See

What Hosking Doesn’t Want to See

If the last two years have proved anything, it’s that the epithet “conspiracy theory” is almost completely redundant. As the saying goes, they’re not so much conspiracy theories as spoiler alerts. Covid came from a Wuhan lab? Crackpot conspiracy theory… until it wasn’t. Vaccines don’t prevent

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Social Media is the New Big Tobacco
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Social Media is the New Big Tobacco

On opposite sides of the world, two separate court cases have potentially massive consequences for social media. In one case, Australian journalist Avi Yemini has won a court injunction against an anonymous Twitter account that has repeatedly attacked and – he says – defamed him on the platform. Yemini intends to sue

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

“Seastern”? Have they renamed the area or is it yet another stuff up by the NZ Herald? 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

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Networks Refuse to Report on Biden Scandals

Networks Refuse to Report on Biden Scandals

Geoffrey Dickens newsbusters.org Geoffrey Dickens is the Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center. He currently writes for all of the MRC’s publications and outlets including MRC.org, Newsbusters.org, Notable Quotables and has contributed to past projects including MediaWatch and MagazineWatch. Warning Long read: 2393

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