Hey ho — another round of NZ on Air funding, another orgy of indulging the government’s bought-and-paid-for media. Of course, that’s not how the government are so blatant as to put it. Instead, they dress it up with fluffy piffle about “diversity”. Audience-focused content that meets the needs 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’ in
Michael Flinn BFD writer Lushington D Brady expressed his opinion recently that professing Christian Scott Morrison should stop trying to cater for the woke lefties around him. He should just man up about his views and be done with it. I’ve been thinking about that in relation to the
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
Stuff again. Was it one or several leaders? Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
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. Recently The Spinoff
Karl du Fresne karldufresne.blogspot.com Karl du Fresne is a freelance journalist and blogger living in the Wairarapa region of New Zealand. Many readers will have seen this picture. It shows three political journalists sprinting across the forecourt at Parliament. My first thought on seeing the photo was that
Sunlive miss the “ed” off one word and put it somewhere else where it doesn’t belong. Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
You will see from the information below that the Government is paying the salaries of MSM Editors so that the Media organisations themselves do not have to fund the positions themselves from their own revenue. This means that the minute the Government stops the funding the Editors will lose their
As you should all be aware, Lushington Dalrymple Brady is a nom de plume, and it’s a lot more interesting than my real name, believe me. But, despite its ordinariness, it’s amazing how many people manage to misspell it. Especially baristas. Mostly, this just amuses me. But, according
The mainstream media like to pretend that they “speak truth to power”. The reality is that they do nothing but speak lies for power. The mainstream media also like to pretend that they are standing up to “the corporations” — when, in fact, they’re just another corporation. And they behave
The BFD provided its daily audience of 25,000+ 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 from
Graham Adams Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer who has written for many of the country’s media outlets including Metro, North & South, Noted, The Spinoff and Newsroom The question of whether National made the right choice last
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’ in
Wouldn’t “loosens” be better? Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
