Imagine playing against a team that was split, inferior, and that had no clear strategy. And you still lose. Imagine also that the team says that you cheat and don’t play fair. And to prove them right you go ahead and cheat and play unfairly. And you still lose.
The Spinoff has the same size audience as The BFD but the similarities end there. The BFD is funded 95% by our 1500+ 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
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’
Wow, we have been under-estimating the motherly multi-tasking abilities of our Prime Minister! According to Newshub she “delivered her first” in parliament yesterday. Now we know that it isn’t her first baby, and we didn’t even know that she was pregnant again, but she manages to
I would like to take this moment, as an Australian, to thank Jacinda Ardern from the bottom of my heart. For months, the glaring spotlight of world media has been focused on Australia — and not in a good way. Covid camps in the outback, closed borders, and rubber bullets at
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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
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
The media and politicians are genuinely perplexed that people are expressing a deep loathing for them. But they shouldn’t be, they’ve brought it on themselves. Jessica Mutch-McKay wrote an opinion piece where she said that the protest she claims to be covering is ‘different’: In Auckland the
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As Guardian columnist Owen Jones recently noted, in a rare fit of clarity, the push by Britain’s political elite to “crack down on social media abuse of public figures” is less about any high-minded ideals and everything to do with insulating the political class from their own constituents.
FreeNZ Media Newsletter freenz.substack.com In response to the attacks on our colleague Liz Gunn by the NZ media, I would like to introduce the FreeNZ media/news company and to offer the NZ public some broad insights into who we are as an organisation, as individuals, and what
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’
New Zealanders are fed up with two years of government interference and are inspired by the success of the Canadian truckers’ freedom convoy’s pressure on authorities to ease and drop Covid mandates. This week the premiers of the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta announced plans to end several
