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
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
The NZ Herald accidentally lets the cat out of the bag! Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover 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
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
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
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
NewstalkZB versus RNZ. RNZ wins. Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
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
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
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’
Remember our Business of the Day – Clairville Bakery? Wairarapa Age has a front-page article stating incorrectly that they are closed to diners. So they replied on Facebook. There is so much to take away (no pun) from what he says. Meanwhile….cronuts! WOW! If you have a great Youtube,
“The vaccine“…wait what? Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
The BFD provided its daily audience of 27,000+ readers with three slide shows of photos from the November 9th Freedom protest in Wellington, access to a live Facebook video of the march and the speeches and an Op-Ed from the group that organised the march. It was clear
One of the most disturbing turns on the slippery slope we find ourselves careering along at breakneck speed is the increasingly transparent push to normalise paedophilia. As reported previously, this isn’t just some fringe creeps, but the mainstream (which means the “mainstream left”) media: Salon, Slate, the New York
House Speaker Trevor Mallard has given a rare tribute to a journalist – Newshub’s outgoing political editor Tova O’Brien. “I want to acknowledge the media. I think they act with incredible integrity… probably with a couple of exceptions,” Mallard said in his final speech in Parliament for 2021. “I
