Information Opinion In March 2021 the letter copied below was printed in the Howick and Pakuranga Times. Now let that sink in. The letter you read was penned almost a year ago! Long before the current protests taking place in Wellington! Also, consider that the letter was copied widely – including
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
protesters are filling in the trenches they dug last night now that the sprinklers have been turned off. pic.twitter.com/C7wloneM9G — ?????? ? ? (@rahera_k) February 12, 2022 If you have a great Youtube, Rumble, Odysee or Vimeo video to share send it to videos@thebfd.co.nzIf you would like
Hey Stuff, I’ve looked on the map and I can’t find Nandi in Fiji. Maybe that’s because it is Nadi not “Nandi!” 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
The BFD is 95% powered by member dollars and the remaining 5% comes from ad revenue. The Spinoff doesn’t have genuine subscriptions because all their content is free to read. Take a look at the true source of their funding. Hint, it is not their readership. Last year The
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
Darryl Betts darryllrbetts.wordpress.com Darryl is a businessman and a post-graduate student in Philosophy at the University of Auckland, with particular interests in the philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, epistemology, logic, and AI. He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a BA in Philosophy, Logic and
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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