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Daily News Roundup – 15 September 2020
Alert level decision Luke Malpass (Stuff): Big questions linger after Covid-19 alert level decision Derek Cheng (Herald): Travel spike could thwart Government’s level 1 plans – Covid modeller Science Media Centre: Alert Level status quo stays a little longer – Expert Reaction Crystal Wu (Stuff): Public health, economic experts react
Boris Confirms End of Biased BBC Licence
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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
Billy Te Kahika is given a new name by TVNZ, “Billy Te Kahia“ If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
Daily News Roundup – 14 September 2020
Election Andrea Vance (Stuff): When these are the options, this is why I don’t vote Claire Trevett (Herald): Behind the leaders – the National and Labour campaign players and tricks (paywalled) Luke Malpass (Stuff): Labour lines up ducks to win big Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Labour’s policies sink
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
“Ensure the wasn’t”? 12,000 staff were ordered to help rule out where the outbreak came from? Are they all experts? The BFD. Stuff up of the day. If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
A Puzzle Worth Investigating
Using the Delayed-Matching-To-Sample (DMTS) test, animal psychologists have shown that dogs may remember an event for two minutes but a chimpanzee just for 20 seconds, whereas the average media trooper, trained and skilled (I am very sure), exhibits just under half that primate’s recall. This is
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
SkyNews Australia confuses marriage with the military. It is martial law NOT “marital law.” Also, it should read, under martial law NOT “in marital law” If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
Satirical Image of the Day
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Virginia Fallon & More Stuff(ed) Journalism
Olivia Pierson oliviapierson.org A staggeringly ill-informed, yet rather telling op-ed was published on Stuff this week by Virginia Fallon titled “Sometimes Politics Should Trump Friendships.” Fallon admits to not knowing any President Trump supporters in this country bar one, a friend of hers whom she describes as
A Political Slut and a RINO
Mike Hosking is one of the very few media who dares ask Ardern the hard questions but this week he disgraced himself. He joined other media subversives selling their souls by airing political vendettas instead of presenting the facts. Hosking fronted a very shoddy interview that spread Trump Derangement Syndrome,
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
From the NZ Herald online. Yesterday’s headline didn’t match the attached video. The content of the video is not even mentioned in the article The BFD. Stuff up of the day. Source: NZ Herald https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=
Facebook Tries to Bully the Australian Government
The Silicon Valley oligarchs are going to war with the Morrison government. At issue is the government’s efforts to force the tech giants to pony up some of their mountains of gold for the content they’ve been scraping for free for years. While it’s true that the
Apologies Due
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Our newspapers report without arousing any reaction, and I quote, “a surge in the number of people returning to New Zealand from India who have tested positive for coronavirus.” In the early extreme panic stages a few months ago, a young MP, Hamish Walker, was
Daily News Roundup – 11 September 2020
Election Audrey Young (Herald): Election battlegrounds – Political parties eye strategic seats (paywalled) Katie Scotcher (RNZ): An introduction to ‘The Outliers’: The political parties who aren’t in the daily headlines Tova O’Brien (Newshub): With two Government parties under threat of political obliteration, is it time to rethink MMP? Tim
David Farrier’s Obsession with Steve Elers Backfires
Columnist Steve Elers who has twice now been de-platformed from his MSM column by Cancel Culture poster boy David Farrier, yesterday morning announced to all his subscribers that he will be publishing a book in 2021. I am delighted to announce that my first book will be published in