Speaker Trevor Mallard’s rape allegations Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Trevor Mallard should never have been appointed as Speaker Barry Soper (Herald): Why House Speaker Trevor Mallard should resign Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): How can Labour preach kindness, yet support Trevor Mallard? Amelia Wade (Herald): Rules quietly changed so
People of the Year? Persons of the Year? Hopefully this will not age well… Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
If you’ve been following the US election you will know that Fox News has committed business suicide. Lou Aguilar from The Spectator explains. Trump broke every other news entity even before he took office in 2017. CNN, MSNBC, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the rest have
If you don’t have a Silver level subscription yet you are missing out on our Insight Politics articles. Today is a FREE taste of an Insight Politics article by John Black that was first published 10th November 2020. The Idiocy of Experts The apparent victory of Joe Biden in
Some people might think that confusing Stan Lee and Spike Lee was the stuff up but The Gisborne Herald also stuffed up the winner of the “people’s choice award for dogs that look like their owners.” Please share this BFD Stuff up so others can discover The BFD.
As asked on The BFD recently, why can’t the media admit that they got it wrong on the Cardinal George Pell case? Australia’s taxpayer-funded media in particular, pursued Pell with a venom we hadn’t seen since they decided Lindy Chamberlain was too frumpy-looking to be innocent. Whether
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Acclaimed dressmaker Dame Trelise Cooper recently designed a formal dress comprising six overlapping layers of material and dubbed it “Trail of Tiers”. Why? Because in its overlapping layers it forms a perpendicular trail. Let’s get the language cleared up. A tier is a layer.
Royal Commission into terrorist attack Chris Trotter: The Royal Commission’s recommendations on hate speech will unite the right Paul Moon (Stuff): Silencing ‘disharmonious speech’ will not be golden Peter Dunne: NZ’s membership of the Five Eyes club contributed to the intelligence failures of the Christchurch terrorist attack Thomas
Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya aier.org The media relish negative news. “If it bleeds it leads” still holds, and perhaps it’s never been truer than in the COVID-19 era. Every day the news highlights the spread of the virus and tells the sad stories of some of its victims. And
Australia is set to pass world-first laws to force tech giants to pay for the content they’ve so far been scraping for free from media companies, as well as sharing their data-collection methods. Is this the last gasp of a dying legacy media – or the first push-back against the
At least spell the Queen’s name right. How hard is that? Pretty darn hard says the NZ Herald. P.S It is women not “woman.” P.P.S It is powerful not “popular.” Oh dear. Mistake number #4 It is Harris not “harris.” Please share this BFD Stuff up
Speaker Trevor Mallard’s rape allegations Jason Walls (Herald): MPs challenge House Speaker Trevor Mallard over timing of his false rape accusation apology Zane Small (Newshub): Speaker Trevor Mallard comes under fire from National, ACT over ‘rape’ comments Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): MPs call for a vote of no confidence in
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Senior journalist Andrea Vance, who should know better, writing about housing affordability said a house is everyone’s human right. No it’s not Andrea. You just made that up. Homes don’t fall out of the sky like raindrops. They have to be built
Royal Commission into terrorist attack: Commentary and analysis Luke Malpass (Stuff): Lots of apologies for March 15 terror attack, but no-one to blame Audrey Young (Herald): Christchurch mosque shootings: Royal Commission avoids simple answers about mass surveillance (paywalled) Richard Harman: The confusion of the state; what went wrong with our
