If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed. Mark Twain There are thousands of independent journalists around the world who may help to broaden your horizons. Here are a few of my favourites… YouTube: * The Epoch Times – US-based, Chinese
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Liar, liar Tova should be on fire. What an absolute fib from ?@NewshubPolitics?. I have visited Hutt South with ?@cjsbishop? 3 times during our campaign, and Ms O’Brien was told that. Focus on what matters. The NZ economy is going into the worst time in 160 years. #TwoTicksBlue https:
Wealth tax Daniel Dunkley (Stuff): Tax the wealthy? I don’t think so Heather Du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): National’s ‘wealth tax’ assault isn’t working Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern’s absurd day in Christchurch, still battling the wealth tax Newshub: Revealed: How your wealth ranks compared to
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Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The above, an absurd Stuff website heading yesterday out of Australia. If it had a scintilla of truth we must assume Bolivians, Bulgarians, Taiwanese; I could go on listing the world’s 200 plus countries, were all comatose with shock. In fact 99.9% of
Consider this rubbish printed as an op-ed on one of its editorial pages by the New Zealand Herald, a newspaper once rated our country’s best: “We are fast running out of time to meaningfully address climate change and the other devastating impacts of mining on freshwater and ecosystems.
Scams are a regular occurrence in NZ media, obviously not absolutely everyone, but mainstream media can no longer be regarded as newsworthy simply because they don’t bother fact checking. Media assume we believe their lies: that global warming is to blame for worldwide extreme floods and fires; that Donald
Wealth tax, Labour-Greens coalition negotiations Tim Watkin (Pundit): What Else Apart From A Wealth Tax? The Shape Of A Labour-Greens Coalition Audrey Young (Herald): It takes two to tango in talks says Green Party’s James Shaw over Ardern’s wealth tax comments Scott Palmer (Newshub): Chlöe Swarbrick
Dear Editor Stuff has sunk even deeper into their political advocacy by publishing a 50-minute “documentary” and associated text article defamation piece against Billy Te Kahika (co-leader of the Advance party). They have been obviously a politically biased outlet for years, but this is the lowest I have
Do modern democracies even need a state-funded broadcaster, any more? The left would answer with a desperate “Yes!” Despite the dizzying plethora of viewpoints and services available at the touch of a screen, the left insists that state-funded broadcasters are necessary to combat the stranglehold of commercial media
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The increasingly shrill defenders of Victorian premier Daniel Andrews are often particularly outraged by references to “Dictator Dan”. If you can criticise the premier on Facebook, they shriek, you’re not in a dictatorship! Except that, as we see, Victorians criticise the premier on Facebook at their peril. Zoe Bruhler,
Election Graeme Edgeler (Democracy Project): How to vote, and how to think about voting John Armstrong (1News): Pressure on Collins to lift National votes, even in defeat Jehan Cassinader (BusinessDesk): Dull old-school election campaign in the online era (paywalled) 1News: Ardern, Collins vying for votes in tight seats of
Looks like the NZ Herald doesn’t like all of Judith Collins’ face. Let’s have an unbiased article on the upcoming debate….. not! If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
Ardern’s celebrity is a media construct, as was her Noble Peace Prize nomination which failed due to the Nobel Committee’s quaint insistence on substance over style. Style over substance rules and it was ever thus, but quadruple the effect in today’s superficial world of technology, devices and
