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The Latest Media Bias Results

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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From the Horse’s Mouth

From the Horse’s Mouth

One of the things that The BFD offers you that the MSM does not is unfiltered, unspun Political news straight from the horse’s mouth. 1. Political Party Press releases: The MSM re-write them and only publish the bits they want their audience to read. They filter the content

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Is David Fisher Wrong?

Is David Fisher Wrong?

Information Opinion David ‘Tainted‘ Fisher, hack journalist for ‘A Newspaper‘ and all around (allegedly) duplicitous scumbag, has been paid (presumably) to write a piece for his employer where he waxes lyrical about the probability (he wishes?) that there will be a domestic terrorist attack in our fair land some time

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Fact Checking the RNZ Fact Check

Fact Checking the RNZ Fact Check

covidplanb.co.nz Radio New Zealand has recently criticized a Facebook live conversation between former National MP Matt King and epidemiologist Dr Simon Thornley. While people should undertake their own research, we provide some comments related to the media’s critique. The evidence related to covid-19 policy continues to

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(Yet More) MSM Lies About Freedom Protests

(Yet More) MSM Lies About Freedom Protests

As the Freedom Movement grows and thousands of peaceful protesters take to the streets of Melbourne, what are the media to do? They can’t just pretend that tens of thousands of people didn’t march on Melbourne’s parliament. They can’t even find a few isolated nongs to

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

1News screws up again. They failed to put in the headline text: ” Virtual Signalling Prat in a T-shirt.” Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.

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COVID ‘Fact-Check’ Dodges the Issue

COVID ‘Fact-Check’ Dodges the Issue

As I’ve warned many times, “Always assume that “fact-checkers” are trying to bullshit you”. I’ve also complained many times about the dire state of so-called “science journalism”. The “Explainer” column of the Sydney Morning Herald, penned by an award-winning “science journalist” no less, is a

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Do You Trust Us?

Do You Trust Us?

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’

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Backlash against the News Media Unsurprising

Backlash against the News Media Unsurprising

Karl du Fresne karldufresne.blogspot.com Karl Du Fresne is a freelance journalist and blogger living in the Wairarapa region of New Zealand. He grew up in the farming town of Waipukurau and still considers it his turangawaewae, although he can walk the length of Ruataniwha St these days and

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Dom-Post Drivel

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com One of Wellington’s delights/horrors, depending on your mood, is reading the Dominion-Post, copies of which are sprayed about and thus free. Consider this week’s Monday issue. It contains a short interview with a local cricketer, Luke Georgeson, who is asked what

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Letter of Complaint to NZ Herald

Letter of Complaint to NZ Herald

The Freedoms & Rights Coalition Team To the NZ Herald Editor We wish to make a complaint about the article that the NZ Herald ran yesterday that was written by David Fisher. A copy of this article is also attached in its original form, in case any changes have since

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

David Fisher: There’s a High Chance of a Domestic Terror Attack before 2022 Ends A domestic terror attack is likely before the end of 2022. If it comes, it will be connected to the protest movement that has grown around Covid-19 issues. The terrorist, if it happens, will

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Saddle up It’s Time to Join the BFD Posse

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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The Blinkers of the Left

The Blinkers of the Left

Arthur The hidebound ideologues of the left and their mindless followers have one theme that runs through their thinking. They are so smugly self-righteous and sure of how right they are on all issues. They are deaf, dumb and blind to all counter views. They will jump and wriggle

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