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Our Readers Have Champagne Tastes but the BFD Has a Beer Budget

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

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Russian Media Nuked by YouTube

Autumn Johnson newsbusters.org Autumn is a practicing attorney licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia. When not working, Autumn enjoys reading, writing, playing video games, and spending time with her cats. YouTube blocked all Russian media outlets globally. Previously, YouTube only blocked RT and Sputnik’

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Some Hate Speech Is Ok

Nebojsa Malic rt.com Nebojsa Malic is a Serbian-American journalist, blogger and translator, who wrote a regular column for Antiwar.com from 2000 to 2015, and is now senior writer at RT. Information Opinion When is “hate speech” not hate speech? When it’s directed against the approved targets,

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

More new words from RNZ – He wought a good wight! 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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A Merger Made in Heaven?

Peter Thompson Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington The announcement of the government’s decision to merge RNZ and TVNZ into a non-profit “public media entity” was long anticipated but, coming in the second year of Labour’s second term, underwhelming in its lack of detail. Cabinet had

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

NZ Herald offering NCEA-type questions with answers. 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

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More Money for the Propaganda Press

More Money for 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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What Are “Fact-Checkers” Lying about Today?

What Are “Fact-Checkers” Lying about Today?

What are the “Fact Checkers” lying about, today? Ha, trick question: it’s easier to count what they’re not lying about. Because, as I keep reminding you, so-called “Fact Checkers” are in reality “Narrative Confirmation Machines”. None more so than Australia’s own taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda network

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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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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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Unvaxxed Staff Need Bosses to Say Sorry

Unvaxxed Staff Need Bosses to Say Sorry

I am putting my hand up and admitting that I never asked or wanted to know the vaccine status of any staff member.   I refused to be a ‘dickhead’ and follow such bad management and illogical policies put together by those so-called experts and then endorsed by that brain-

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Is RNZ adopting a Yorkshire dialect now? 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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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.

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