I watched Liz Gunn’s Rumble video with joyful delight. At last, a person with some credibility and media training was standing up and saying what so many of us were thinking. She is respected, liked and generally well known. If anyone could lead us out of the vale of
Do you think Stuff is trying to tell us there are 94 cases? It’s deja vu all over again. 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 Debbie
KSK Stuff It Once Again, MSM Misrepresents Reality A Stuff article on 16 October by Northland reporter Denise Piper featured Northland Maori. She met with some of them from the small town of Moerewa. According to her Stuff profile, Denise Piper has been reporting in Te Tai Tokerau for more
This week’s column started out to be about the venality of most of what passes these days for New Zealand’s mainstream news media (MSM). Venality: noun – the condition or quality of being venal; openness to bribery or corruption. Bribery? Really? Well, take a look here. Is the Ardern
One News forgets the caption. Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
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
Karl du Fresne karldufresne.blogspot.com Cabal (noun): 1. A secret intrigue. 2. A political clique or faction. These are the two main definitions in my Oxford Dictionary. There’s a third, historical one which reveals that the word originated under King Charles II, who had a committee of five
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Pandora Papers beat-up revealed, not the terrible scandal the international group of newspapers behind the loudly proclaimed “revelation”, but rather the desperate state of the print media fighting for its survival. So Putin’s a crook with massive assets hidden behind a trust. For
The NZ Herald in the past attacked a popular NZ blog site for publishing articles that they described as “hit jobs”. They claimed that the articles were unethical because the author of the articles had allegedly been paid to write them. How then should we view this article by the
Are “nice” locations the best places to get the Wuflu? (Asking for a friend.) Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
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
Gosh, social media is now contagious. If you don’t want to catch covid log out quick smart. An ambiguous sentence from One News. Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
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. Last month The BFD copped a second 30-day ban on Facebook. Our first one was for posting
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
