Last week NZ Mainstream Media were the recipients of Government handouts and all the money came with strings attached. BusinessDesk reported on the winners of the first round of Government largesse that officially is described as the Public Interest Journalism Fund. The beneficiaries include: Stuff, who was given $300,000.
Only those with a dirty mind (or sexy imagination) will notice what is wrong with this headline. Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
On Thursday night I had the misfortune to watch a TV One News attack piece on the planned protest by farmers. It was very strongly implied that farmers are a threat to the environment and therefore must change their ways. The inference was that it is the farmers who are
NZ Herald runs a story on the anti-Government protesters in Cuba and uses a photo of the pro-Government counter-rally, complete with 26 July Movement flags. Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
16th July 2021 The incarceration of journalists continues, which helps to explain some of the difficulty in getting reports from Myanmar. The military is trying to put a stranglehold on the flow of information from the country and is repressing as much of the media as it possibly can. Nearly
The BFD is 95% powered by subscriber dollars and the remaining 5% comes from ad revenue. The Spinoff doesn’t have subscriptions because they don’t need them. Take a look at who pays for them to do what they do. Hint, it is not their readership. Recently The Spinoff
The New Zealand Government is getting ready to hunt people down if they do not submit to the experimental covid-19 vaccinations (and the upcoming booster shots). New Zealand’s Minister for COVID-19 Response, Chris Hipkins, is openly saying it now: The government will “go out and find you”
When “feelings” trump facts. The story of NZ in the 21st century! But the positives of the country’s pandemic personal finances had a dark flipside, with 32 per cent of renters saying they felt poorer than before the pandemic struck. A similar proportion of non-investors, who missed out
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
Finally, some mainstream media reporters are catching on to what we’ve been reporting for more than a year: lockdowns do not work. Yes, I know I’ve said this before, but clearly I’ve got to keep saying it until the slow kids on the government benches catch on.
We are essentially a lone voice in a sea of left-wing voices. Do you 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’
Next time maybe they should hold an accident meeting. You know, to keep people safe. Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
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
Superwoman Tova seems to get a “stunned mullet” reaction from interviewees on Newshub Nation. This week it was “big fish” Paul Hunt, the Human Rights Commissioner, who was squirming out of the fry-pan trying to avoid Tova’s taser like beam. He, like Justice Minster Faafoi, couldn’t or
Weather forecaster Philip Duncan has expressed his “disappointment” in New Zealanders who did not like him calling New Zealand “Aotearoa.” Duncan said it is disappointing that many New Zealanders are still showing resistance to embracing te reo Maori. He jokingly suggested that those who had felt compelled to air their
In the classic Beyond the Fringe sketch. “The End of the World”, a millenarian cult await a predicted apocalypse. When it fails to materialise, one of the cultists shrugs, “Never mind, lads – same time tomorrow. We must get a winner, one day.” That’s the thing about cultists: they’ll
