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Media You Can Trust?

Media You Can Trust?

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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More Wasteful Spending from Govt

More Wasteful Spending from Govt

Today’s move to amalgamate RNZ and TVNZ is yet another wasteful and pointless move by the Government for the future of the media sector, National’s Broadcasting & Media spokesperson Melissa Lee says. “The Government has spent the last several years wasting millions of dollars on countless reviews, consultations

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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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Money for Nothing and Their Editors for Free

Money for Nothing and Their Editors for Free

You will see from the information below that the Government is paying the salaries of MSM Editors so that the Media organisations themselves do not have to fund the positions themselves from their own revenue. This means that the minute the Government stops the funding the Editors will lose their

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Is the NZ Govt Confused?

Is the NZ Govt Confused?

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. He was formerly a senior manager

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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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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Wow! HUGE increases to the tax brackets! 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

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Don’t Like Woke Media? What Are You Going to Do about It?

Don’t Like Woke Media? What Are You Going to Do about It?

Part of the reason conservatives are losing is that they don’t know how to fight the culture war. This is because critical theorists told their adherents that the only way to effect change was through culture. Gary Habermas wrote about one of the institutions of power being the public

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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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We Need a Better Understanding of the Limits of Expertise

We Need a Better Understanding of the Limits of Expertise

Ananish Chaudhuri is Professor of Experimental Economics at the University of Auckland and the author of “Nudged into lockdown? Behavioural Economics, Uncertainty and Covid-19”. The views expressed are his own. I saw recently that a media-friendly scientist has taken to commenting about sailing. I presume this was to highlight the

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

How do you file a climate policy? 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

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Your Sole Sources of Lies

Your Sole Sources of Lies

When it comes to railing against “covid-19 misinformation”, the mainstream media really might want to sit this one out. After all, they’re the ones who’ve lied, shouted down actual experts while promoting glorified lab technicians and scientists with unrelated qualifications as “experts”, and endlessly, endlessly hammered fear and

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Media Council Busts Stuff, Wiles for Lying

Media Council Busts Stuff, Wiles for Lying

Stuff have been bombarding readers with articles about how wonderful they are at halting the spread of misinformation. They attach statements like this to the bottom of articles: Except that the Media Council has just busted them twice for their dishonest spreading of misinformation. The first case was for an

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

I’m picking the residents of Chartwell will be wondering if the Government has changed the name of their suburb. 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

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Do You Trust the BFD?

Do You Trust the BFD?

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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