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Fake News of the Day

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The ABC Left-Splains the Freedom Movement

The ABC Left-Splains the Freedom Movement

I love watching old documentaries on youth cultures from the 1950s and 60s, with rockers and hippies, into the 1980s with punks and goths. The earnest cluelessness of the “squares” as they try to keep Mr and Mrs Suburbia clued in on “what the young people are doing today” is

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Omicron Hysteria Exposes Lying Media. Again.

Omicron Hysteria Exposes Lying Media. Again.

What a weird, contradictory time to be alive. We live in an age of readily-available information — and an avalanche of lies and mistruths from those who fancy themselves the “gatekeepers of truth”. One need, of course, look no further than the mainstream media’s reporting of all things pandemic to

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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. This month The BFD copped a second 30-day ban on Facebook. Our first one was for posting

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The Most Biased NZ Media

The Most Biased NZ Media

Last year 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. The BFD

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A Concerning Anti-free Speech Trend

A Concerning Anti-free Speech Trend

Freedom of speech and movement are fundamental rights in a liberal democracy and many New Zealanders fought and died so that we may continue to enjoy them. The lockdowns have seriously challenged these rights and we largely accepted these without question until the Prime Minister chose to use daily media

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Comparing Apples with Apples: The Spinoff and The BFD

Comparing Apples with Apples: The Spinoff and The BFD

The Spinoff has the same size audience as The BFD but the similarities end there. The BFD is funded 95% by our one thousand plus 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

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Knock, Knock who’s there? Omicron

Knock, Knock who’s there? Omicron

Thanks, to an increasingly irresponsible media—Omicron has now terrified the civilised world, setting off cries for more lockdowns and general harum-scarum, even though the international “death toll” of this bug is so far a grand total of… one (maybe).  Omicron is a very mild strain of Covid 19 and

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The Latest Payout to the Propaganda Press

The Latest Payout to 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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In Full: Journalist Maria Ressa’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

In Full: Journalist Maria Ressa’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

Hong Kong Free Press hongkongfp.com Hong Kong Free Press is a new, non-profit, English-language news source seeking to unite critical voices on local and national affairs. Free of charge and completely independent, HKFP arrives amid rising concerns over declining press freedom in Hong Kong and during an important time

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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. This year a Youtuber in New Zealand lost his job after a concerted effort by activists including Maori Party co-leader Debbie

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Dodgy Hit Job on Tross Publishing Continues

Dodgy Hit Job on Tross Publishing Continues

It takes a special kind of chutzpah to accuse others of “inaccuracy”, “disinformation” and “writing with an agenda” when those are exactly the tools you’re using to attack them. But then, this is the New Zealand mainstream media and left-cultural establishment we’re talking about. These sorts of deceitful

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