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One of the most damning indictments of the tobacco industry is that it for a long time it knew how harmful its products were – and lied about it. Which makes Facebook the New Big Tobacco. Because internal documents show that Facebook is well aware of how toxic its Instagram platform
The Next Group That Will Be Targeted by the Left: Hindus
Dark Jester The New Lynn shopping mall attack shows that despite our reassurances, there are Jihadist and ISIS linked elements in New Zealand. But what was interesting was the reaction on social media underneath. Many of the comments underneath the articles that covered the New Lynn attack would be considered
Cam’s Back on Insight!
Cam is back on Insight Politics with a brand new format of video/podcast called Politicast. We’ve worked long and hard to bring you this new format and we are confident you will LOVE it! The financial support of our 1000+ members has made this level of production possible.
NZ Herald Literally Running Propaganda Campaigns for the Government Now
The NZ Herald claims that they are independent media. They even had to tell us that. Of course, everyone reading The BFD knows that explaining is losing. Nonetheless the NZ Herald is now officially a state propaganda publication after announcing they are running a campaign to encourage everyone to meet
Let’s Pretend We Care about the Sham
It is nothing more than a sham, a stupid pretence that we all supposedly care about the Maori language when most of us don’t. The six o’clock lefty political news hour is bad enough without having a load of gobbledygook that virtually none of us understand. We even
Propaganda Campaign of the Week
New Zealand needs to get vaccinated now to beat Delta – and that’s why the NZ Herald and NZME are launching The 90% Project today. A very high vaccination rate is vital for us to make our population safe from serious disease, keep our hospitals running and gradually allow our
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
But hasn’t it already reached single figures? Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
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
There Is No ‘Code Red’ in IPCC 6
It’s not for nothing that the Royal Society’s motto is Nullius in Verba. “Take no one’s word for it.” Sadly, the Society itself rarely lives up to that motto any more, having long ago traded scepticism for right-on gullibility. Especially when it comes to climate change.
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
Every News Media Who Secretly Took Trudeau’s $61M Pre-election Pay-Off
You can see the list for yourself at RebelInvestigates.com — The list is 29 pages long. If I’ve counted right, there are 49 names on each page, and it’s 29 pages long. That means there’s nearly 1,500 news media took the bribe. It’s actually more
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
“Harvey Bob” Stuff up by Herald NZ (snigger). Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
Performing Flea ‘Showing National How It’s Done’
Helped by a fawning media keen to vilify National’s Judith Collins and glorify David Seymour, the Act leader, the ‘it’ boy of the moment, is the male version of Ardern with the addition of brain power and pragmatism, but sits at the other end of the spectrum, which may
The Double-Edged Sword of the $55M Government Journalism Fund Cuts Deep
Graham Adams Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Graham Adams is a journalist, columnist and reviewer who has written for many of the country’s media outlets including Metro, North & South, Noted, The Spinoff and Newsroom On Sunday morning, National’s Dr Shane Reti asked on
Unprofessional Face of the Day
It was short-lived leader Todd Muller who signed up media trainer Janet Wilson to be his chief press officer until the election. Previously she had been involved in media and election debate training for former Prime Ministers Sir John Key and Sir Bill English, as well as several other