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NZ Still Hiding under the Bed

NZ Still Hiding under the Bed

Mary Media reports on opposite sides of the Tasman on the same day illustrate the stark contrast in treatment of the reporting of covid infections and hospitalisations.  While Australia is moving slowly to living with covid, New Zealand appears intent on milking every last drop of fear out of the

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They Don’t Even Have to Pay Their Editors!

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

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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

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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

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Open Letter to the Chief Editor and Management of the NZ Herald

Rosalie Ashby **This article has been republished. It is one of the most popular articles from 2021. Dear Murray I and all my family and associates have remained consistent supporters of the NZ Herald. We all have always trusted your independence and objectivity. There is now widespread disquiet and deep

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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

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

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Admit It: The Pandemic Is Over

Admit It: The Pandemic Is Over

It was obvious soon enough with Delta. With Omicron it’s now absolutely undeniable. The pandemic is practically finished. Cue panicked screaming from the mainstream media, medical bureaucrats and politicians. Despite all the hysterical headlines, the evidence was pretty clear that the scary “Delta variant” was more virulent, but much

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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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Omicron Weaker than All the Rest

Omicron Weaker than All the Rest

When the head of the South African Medical Association, a physician called Angelique Coetzee, noted that she had seen patients with a new variant of the coronavirus called Omicron, within hours politicians in many countries began planning elaborate and highly punitive new measures against their own populations. If you enjoyed

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This Is Why You Need the BFD

This Is Why You Need 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

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The Dom-Post versus the Herald

The Dom-Post versus the Herald

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Stuff bragged recently that their website has pipped the Heralds in visitor numbers. That was deceitful. What they didn’t point out was their site is free while the Herald’s has a costly pay-wall. What Stuff could have justifiably boasted about and indeed

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