Simon Thornley covidplanb.co.nz In a recent interview with Radio New Zealand, a vaccine expert claimed that the risk of blood clot was 165,000 times higher after having covid-19, compared to the risk after having the AstraZeneca jab. This claim illuminates several misunderstandings of the nature of the
As the Derek Chauvin murder trial draws to its end, it’s worth noting just how egregiously the mainstream media have lied about it. Yes, shocking, I know: the mainstream media lie. That’s why you need independent media, like The BFD, to try and get to the truth when
Ihumatao unlawful government spend Henry Cooke (Stuff): Auditor-General rules the $29.9m the Government used to buy Ihumatao was unlawfully spent Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Housing Minister Megan Woods promises to ‘tidy up’ unlawful purchase of Ihumatao 1News: Unlawful Ihumatao payment another ‘messy chapter’ in the saga, 1News political reporter
James O’Keefe and his Project Veritas might have got off to a wobbly start but they have emerged as one of the best in the business of independent journalism. The very lengths that the mainstream media, government and Big Tech will go to to silence their investigations is testament
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As I recently wrote, the Wuhan plague has shown precisely why we need independent media. While the mainstream media have obediently parroted official lies and propaganda, independent journalists, often armed with nothing more than a mobile phone, a backpack and an internet connection, have been asking the hard questions and
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Dawn Raid Shame lives on- The above a Stuff heading re a grossly exaggerated unsurprisingly, RNZ podcast. The Stuff report opens with a blatant lie; “Nearly 50 years after the police started a crackdown on Pasifika people in Auckland…” The police did no such thing.
NZ-China relations: Mahuta Speech Alexander Gillespie (The Conversation): Without evidence of real progress, NZ’s foreign policy towards China looks increasingly empty Luke Malpass and Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): The taniwha and the dragon: Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta talks China in major speech Audrey Young (Herald): Nanaia Mahuta likens NZ-China relations
Retraction and apology to Campbell Barry and Jo Miller On 5 September 2020, Stuff published stories headlined “Controversy over Barry’s land purchase” and “The battle over a Hutt paradise”. The stories have been removed from our online platforms and we apologise for any distress or embarrassment our publication of
The 2004 comedy Anchorman opens with a voice-over speaking of “a time when people believed everything they heard on TV”. The gag, of course, is that hardly anyone believes anything they hear on TV any more, least of all the news. This isn’t just a cynical opinion: multiple surveys
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
Jeffrey Lord newsbusters.org Jeffrey Lord is a Contributing Writer for NewsBusters. Lord is a former White House political director in the Reagan White House and aide to HUD Secretary Jack Kemp. After graduating from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania he went on to work for the Pennsylvania
Perhaps Tim Flannery really is one of Australia’s most accomplished scientists. After all, it’s not many people whose name gets made into a vernacular verb, but an increasing number of Australians have taken to remarking that “It’s really Flannerying down”, when the weather turns wet. A “Flannery”
I wish to make something clear from the start. I don’t care what people want to call themselves. It is a matter of personal choice, even if some of us think these choices are strange. ‘Siouxsie’ Wiles is a good example. She obviously wants to be different – and her
Housing crisis Reuters: ‘Explosion of wealth inequality’ as housing boom leaves many behind – economist Dan Satherley (Newshub): Housing crisis: Price falls coming, but ‘nothing compared to’ how much they’ve risen – economists Miriam Bell (Stuff): What will happen if house prices fall? Tara Shaskey (Stuff): Poverty will cripple Maori if
