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With Your Help We Can Win a Lopsided Battle

With Your Help We Can Win a Lopsided Battle

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

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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’

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

So who is to appear in Court? The felon, or the Police Officer? 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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The Media’s Shameless About-Face on Zelensky

The Media’s Shameless About-Face on Zelensky

My, what a difference a year and a war make. According to the media-political narrative, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is the hero of the age. The new Churchill. The leader of “the cause of all free people”. Which is a very different tune than they were singing, less than

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Let’s All Play Nicely in the Sandpit

Let’s All Play Nicely in the Sandpit

Andrea Vance, Senior Journalist at Stuff has penned an opinion piece entitled “The culture of nastiness: insults have replaced arguments in political debate“. Andrea suggests that this needs to change and says, quite rightly, that being rude does not help: In my small way, I am breaking the cycle. Being

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Saddle up It’s Time to Join the BFD Posse

Cancel culture makes people and organisations vulnerable. Activists go after organisations’ ad revenue by complaining to their advertisers. They go after individual’s jobs by complaining to their employers. Last year a Youtuber in New Zealand lost his job after a concerted effort by activists including Maori Party co-leader

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff can’t even get their quiz answers right. 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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If “Trans Men” Are a Thing, Why Not Catgirls?

If “Trans Men” Are a Thing, Why Not Catgirls?

We all know that teenagers, girls especially, are faddists. We also know that they don’t know much: that’s why we send them to school. Science also tells us that teenagers have under-developed brains, are driven to seek social acceptance, and are physically incapable of thinking things through

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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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All Hail Our New Overlords

All Hail Our New Overlords

Thomas Harrington brownstone.org Thomas Harrington, Senior Scholar at the Brownstone Institute, is an essayist and Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College in Hartford (USA) where he taught for 24 years. He specializes in Iberian movements of national identity Contemporary Catalan culture. Social and political elites have long

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Govt Paid NZ Media for Puff Pieces

Govt Paid NZ Media for Puff Pieces

Last year New Zealand hosted the APEC online conference. Unbelievably for a wholly online conference, it still came with a price tag of $76 million dollars. We can at least tell you where $93,000 of that $76 Million dollars went. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs paid  Stuff and the

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff reports not only the absence of intervention but also the absence of “of.” 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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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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Why I Can No Longer Trust the NZ Police to Keep Me Safe

Why I Can No Longer Trust the NZ Police to Keep Me Safe

Jane Morgan FreeNZ freenz.org Information Opinion I have always had the utmost respect for the New Zealand police. The men and women of the force who have sworn to serve and protect us, uphold the Law, assist in matters of justice, and keep us safe so we may sleep

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What Sort of Doctor Do You Want to See?

What Sort of Doctor Do You Want to See?

An important question now arises: What sort of doctor do you want to see? One who is obeying orders (of the pharmaceutical companies and government patsy’s) or one who you can truly trust and has your best interests at heart? If you enjoyed this article please share it using

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

It must be Sunday after a big night out. How else could you explain this? 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

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