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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

I don’t think that they meant to put the “e” on the end of quit! nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-delta-outbreak-papakaio-school-bus-drivers-quite-over-vaccine-mandate Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.

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Global Warming Is Too Big to Fail

Global Warming Is Too Big to Fail

Greta Thunberg, Prince Charles, David Attenborough, Leonardo DiCaprio and our very own James Shaw may be disappointed their quasi religious hysteria at COP26 failed to generate a tsunami of fear; instead media coverage is akin to the normal ebb and fall of a predictable tide, now receding. By the time

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Incompetence

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com It’s long overdue for the Dominion-Post to take on competent sub-editors. A blaring headline last week, spread over two pages boldly claimed, “Nitrates In Water Kill 40 Kiwis A Year: Study”. The accompanying story by the paper’s Science Writer Amber Allott,

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Basic error from Stuff. “to directly elected” It should read to directly elect. Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.

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Today’s Messages from the MSM

Today’s Messages from the MSM

Today we look at the MSM messages about the latest polls. The first one comes from Matthew Hooton who in his article Poll slide a warning to PM Jacinda Ardern – and it could get even worse hits Judith Collins hard (despite an increase in National’s numbers) while stating what

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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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Why the Media Are Copping Flak

Why the Media Are Copping Flak

Several media people are expressing outrage that media, all of a sudden, are experiencing open dislike for them in public. Mihingarangi Forbes is one such liberal media hand-wringer: And Henry Cooke: And Jason Walls tweeted up a storm about the tennis ball attacks: Then followed that up with a

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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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Today’s Messages from the MSM

Today’s Messages from the MSM

Yesterday I put together a post about the negative messages the MSM had made about the Freedom March. In almost complete lockstep they told their audience that both the Freedom March and its message was dangerous and violent and the protesters were nasty anti-vaxxers. Today those same negative messages

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Misinformation

Misinformation

Let me take you back to September when the great Siouxsie Wiles was caught out breaking Level 4 lockdown rules by sitting on a beach with a friend, who then went swimming. In spite of there being a video of these very events, Wiles responded by warning people about ‘misinformation‘

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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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This Is Why You Need the BFD

This Is Why You Need the BFD

Yesterday The BFD provided its daily audience of 25,000+ readers with three slide shows of photos from the 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

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