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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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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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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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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

This article doesn’t have the usual byline of whose opinion it is. Did Grant Robertson write it or was it dictated to a journalist? Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.

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

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Self Appointed Guardians of the Vax

Self Appointed Guardians of the Vax

Devotees of the vaccination cult are enthusiastically dragging the unvaccinated over barrels until they succumb to the jabs: for the tardy recalcitrants it’s not a personal choice, it is imperative; they are ordered out of sight and told not to come back until they have been jabbed. “Leaning heavily

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Head-Cracking Copper Suspended

Head-Cracking Copper Suspended

“Democracy dies in darkness”, says the Washington Post. They’d know: they’ve been doing their best to draw a suffocating sackcloth over American democracy for years. What the media choose not to say is often more important that what they do. Hunter Biden’s laptop, for instance. Or the

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A Childhood Where Maori Was Spoken

A Childhood Where Maori Was Spoken

We really enjoyed doing one thing to annoy the local policeman.  The opportunity to truly piss him off only presented itself maybe once, maybe twice a year.  The wind had to be due west.

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Vaxhole of the Day

Vaxhole of the Day

Hilary Barry has publicly stated that we should discriminate against and bully each other based on people’s personal health choices. Extremely ironically she is an advocate for standing up against bullies yet has used the TV show Seven Sharp on TV1 to tell others to be bullies themselves by

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The Five Most Censored Hunter Biden Scandals of 2021

The Five Most Censored Hunter Biden Scandals of 2021

Geoffrey Dickens newsbusters.org Geoffrey Dickens is the Deputy Research Director at the Media Research Center.  He currently writes for all of the MRC’s publications and outlets including MRC.org, Newsbusters.org, Notable Quotables and has contributed to past projects including MediaWatch and MagazineWatch. Since January 20, 2021 (President

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