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Daily News Roundup – 21 May 2021

Daily News Roundup – 21 May 2021

Budget: Benefits increase Audrey Young (Herald): If not now, then when for beneficiaries? (paywalled) Max Rashbrooke (Stuff): Labour’s years of caution are finally paying off Stuff: Editorial – Revenge on the ‘mother of all Budgets’ Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Ruth Richardson calls Jacinda Ardern and Grant Robertson’s budget attack a

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

How many ooooos do you need to make a point? Perhaps one too many in this Stuff article. Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.

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The Anti-Israel Bias of the ABC

The Anti-Israel Bias of the ABC

On those occasions where I punish myself by listening to ABC radio, it’s like entering a parallel dimension. It’s a Twilight Zone where socialism has never failed, Jacinda Ardern is the most competent leader in the history of the world, and Donald Trump competes with Scott Morrison to

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We Are David They Are Goliath

We Are David They Are Goliath

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

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Daily News Roundup – 20 May 2021

Daily News Roundup – 20 May 2021

Budget 2021 Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Budget 2021: Newshub-Reid Research poll shows Kiwis are on board with expected benefit increase Jane Patterson (RNZ): Budget 2021 set to deliver more money to NZ’s poorest and those hardest hit by Covid-19 Rachel Sadler (Newshub): Budget 2021: Benefit increases, rent reforms needed

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Do You Trust the BFD?

Do You Trust the BFD?

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’

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Daily News Roundup – 19 May 2021

Daily News Roundup – 19 May 2021

Budget 2021 Kate C. Prickett (The Conversation): NZ’s second ‘Well-being Budget’ must deliver for the families that sacrificed most during the pandemic Praveen Menon (Reuters): New Zealand’s recovery budget seen focusing on targeted spending Jason Walls (Herald): Maori housing and child poverty initiatives likely to be biggest Budget

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How Believable Is the Newshub Poll?

How Believable Is the Newshub Poll?

What an unbelievable Newshub poll. After all the bad news the Government has had, particularly over the past few weeks and before, Tova O’Brien managed to report on a poll that was right up her alley. The only thing she failed to report in her orgasmic presentation was that

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Ambiguous headline of the day. Are we talking about a woman of easy virtue or a long walk in the bush Stuff? Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.

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We Can Win This Lopsided Battle with Your Support

We Can Win This Lopsided Battle with Your Support

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

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Netanyahu Calls Out AP Lies about Hamas Facility Getting Bombed

Netanyahu Calls Out AP Lies about Hamas Facility Getting Bombed

Nicholas Fondacaro newsbusters.org Nick grew up in East Stroudsburg Pennsylvania. He graduated from Binghamton University in 2013 with a degree in Political Science. While at Binghamton he served as the Speaker of the Student Assembly and wrote for the Binghamton Review, where his love for journalism started. In a

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