Dear readers if you ever laboured under any illusions that the NZ Herald was a professional, reputable and trusted source of journalism, let me disabuse you of that notion. But before I go into the story let me first let you all know the background. My husband Cameron Slater is
Michael Cook MercatorNet Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet Tomorrow is Trans Day of Remembrance, “an annual observance on November 20 that honours the memory of the trans lives lost to acts of transphobia and discrimination”. It’s an international event. One headline summed up gruesome international figures: “Murdered,
Can we please have a definition of “domestic travel”? Does it include walking from the bedroom to the bathroom? Travelling from home to the supermarket? Travelling from the South Island to the North Island? The BFD. Stuff up of the day. Source: NZ Herald If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff
As the battle for the White House grinds on, the mainstream media are not even bothering to try and hide their bias any more. The media are going all-in for Biden and are outright lying to their rapidly-dwindling readership. The mainstream media’s Big Lie du jour is that there
Q & A’s Jack Tame is currently cooling his heels in the US waiting for the disputed results of Election 2020 to play out. While waiting he interviewed high profile New Zealander Chris Liddell, the boy from Matamata who grew up to work and speak with President Donald J
Wow! The Pumas “bet” the All Blacks. I wonder if the NZRFU took a slice? If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
The NZ Herald, like legacy media everywhere, is trying to get creative in order to increase their revenue. I received the following email from them yesterday. Hi Juana Commenting is back on nzherald.co.nz and our Apple and Android apps! As a Registered user, you’re able to join
Housing Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern won’t stage Reserve Bank intervention as Government loses grip on house prices Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): One-in-four property speculators dodging housing tax Jane Patterson (RNZ): Government under pressure across political spectrum over inflated house prices Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Reserve Bank finds itself at the
Housing Alice Wilkins (Newshub): Tax reform needed to solve New Zealand’s housing crisis – economist Henry Cooke (Stuff): Housing crisis: Green Party urge prime minister to reverse ruling out taxing property wealth Henry Cooke (Stuff): Housing crisis: Judith Collins reluctant to push for change to Reserve Bank’s mandate RNZ:
However the 2020 presidential election pans out, once the lawsuits and investigations are done, there is one clear loser of this election night: the mainstream media. Of course, trust in the media has been falling for decades, but the trend went into hyperdrive during the Trump presidency, when the mainstream
An easy mistake? A correction for the ages, by Brazilian news magazine Veja "The candidate likes to spend his free time reading Tolstoy, and not watching Toy Story, as originally reported" https://t.co/qKcKbsyFYw — Cleuci de Oliveira (@CLEUCl) September 7, 2018 If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff
Their ABC – Australia’s taxpayer-funded leftist propaganda outfit – is at it again. Where once, perhaps, the ABC occasionally remembered how to do polity-shaking investigative journalism, now it mostly does hysterical propaganda and grubby mud-slinging. The nadir of the ABC, perhaps, has been its unhinged witch-hunting of Cardinal George Pell. Even
Denis Muller University of Melbourne Joe Biden’s victory in the US presidential election raises a perennial question about what Rupert Murdoch does when the candidate he has opposed wins. Answer: He adapts and he waits. Electoral cycles last three, four or five years. Murdoch has been wielding power for
The definition of a ‘peaceful protest’ seems simple enough to the average person but apparently, appearances can be deceiving. So what does our local Government-owned TV network think about peaceful protests? Fortunately, we found out the answer to that question thanks to TVNZ 1 News at Six hosted by Melissa
Housing Liam Dann (Herald): House price surge just getting started – Westpac Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Social pressure from renters may force Govt to implement wealth tax: Westpac Michael Cullen (Stuff): Time for a monetary policy rethink Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Reserve Bank fuelling housing boom with printed money says former Finance Minister
