I am in Westport. We own three properties here. Westport is, as most of you know, on the mighty Buller River, but it also has a feeder river called the Orowaiti. Last weekend, with extremely heavy rains – one could accurately say biblical rains – both rivers flooded, but mainly the Orowaiti,
Melissa Lee National Spokesperson for – Broadcasting & Media| Digital Economy and Communications | Ethnic Communities I’m deeply concerned about the future of public interest journalism. The first tranche of Public Interest Journalism Funding has been announced and it’s clear to me that the fund won’t be supporting all
I have heard of Far Side comics but not a “Far Sale sign.” Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
We are essentially a lone voice in a sea of left-wing voices. Do you really want us to disappear or would you rather we powered up our voice? Cancel culture makes people and organisations vulnerable. Activists go after organisations’ ad revenue by complaining to their advertisers. They go after individual’
Stuff has reported on the extent of media bludging from government troughs. It is eye-watering just how much taxpayer coin some media organisations have availed themselves of. Media companies large and small claimed funding from the Government’s media package last year. In April 2020, Broadcasting, Communications and Media Minister
News media reported the other day that TVNZ cut way from its Olympics coverage to run an ad break instead. Here is how the NZ Herald reported it: TVNZ has decided to stay quiet after copping criticism for flicking to an ad break during a moment of silence in the
The latest 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’
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. Just yesterday The BFD copped a 30-day ban on Facebook for posting an article from the Sensible Sentencing
***Update: We appealed the 30 Day ban and won. For now, we are back on Facebook Yesterday we published an article from Darroch Ball of the Sensible Sentencing Trust about just how awful the Mongrel Mob are. The article explains how the Mongrel Mob have for 50 years used Nazi
Gibberish from the NZ Herald. ” They Are Us on hold, but critics of the mosque attacks film want to canned.” Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
Who knew that Aqua Man also played baseball? Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen Cardiff University Karin Wahl-Jorgensen is the author of three books, Disasters and the Media (Peter Lang, 2012; co-authored with Mervi Pantti and Simon Cottle), Journalists and the Public (Hampton Press, 2007) and Citizens or Consumers? (Open University Press, 2005; co-authored with Justin Lewis and Sanna Inthorn), and is
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