Media
Daily News Roundup – 14 August 2020
National Party suspicions around Govt response, conspiracy theories Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): National Party not constructive with conspiracy theories Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Government has well and truly stuffed this up Zane Small (Newshub): 50 New Zealand health experts urge political leaders to ‘resist temptation to scaremonger’ over
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
That’s very clearly is not a cruise ship of any type you’d like to vacation on. Stuff get it wrong…again. If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
Labour Aims to Win This Election on a Lie: Part 1
It will be a more close-run thing than most people imagine, but Labour is likely to retain control of parliament after the election and secure a second term. It’s difficult to say they will ‘win’ given the vagaries of the nonsense MMP system, and what happened last time
Daily News Roundup – 13 August 2020
Election date, parliament Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Judith Collins’ dangerous constitutional game Audrey Young (Herald): Jacinda Ardern holds all the cards in Covid election (paywalled) Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Let’s delay the election Andrew Geddis (The Conversation): By delaying the dissolution of parliament Jacinda Ardern buys time on
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
According to Stuff the very attractive and female Cameron Diaz has gone the full monty and is now a “he”. How progressive of him. If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
Climate Cultists Attack Another Inconvenient Truth-Teller
Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was a highly influential essay in the Philosophy of Science. As it has turned out, not always in a good way. While Kuhn introduced such now-common terms as paradigm into the scientific lexicon, he also argued that science should be defined
Daily News Roundup – 12 August 2020
Community transmission Ben Thomas (Spinoff): What the Covid resurgence means for the election campaign Luke Malpass (Stuff): In this new lockdown, Labour competence will be key Jason Walls (Herald): ‘Extremely disappointed’: National Party leader Judith Collins blasts Govt; says it let Covid-19 back into NZ Richard Harman (Politik): Covid’
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
From Stuff: A “body” is quite different from human remains. If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
A Challenge for Conservative Voices & Media. Are You Up for It?
June this year left-wing media site The Spinoff declared that they had reached 10,000 subscribers. That is quite some achievement, so well done to Duncan and his team at The Spinoff. Their model is a ‘pay what you can’ model but they’d prefer you to contribute $10
Daily News Roundup – 11 August 2020
Auckland Central Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Senior National Party figure accused of using secret alter ego ‘Merv’ to derail Auckland Central candidate RIchard Harman (Politik): “Merv” upsets Nats’ Auckland Central selection Luke Kirkness (Herald): National Party’s Roger Bridge accused of using ‘Merv’ alter ego to derail candidate Nuwanthie Samarakone
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
Perhaps Stuff can’t afford the ink to print every word needed for a sentence to be grammatically correct so they are saving money by leaving them out. If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
Daily News Roundup – 10 August 2020
Labour Party Henry Cooke (Stuff): Labour launch an extremely centrist campaign Audrey Young (Herald) Labour launch is a deliberately understated affair from Jacinda Ardern (paywalled) Audrey Young (Herald): Jacinda Ardern’s decision to ditch Labour manifesto carries risk (paywalled) Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Labour planning to revisit coalition Government policy
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
The journalist is reporting future news that hasn’t even happened yet. Either that or he meant to type Wednesday (the day the article was published) not “Thursday.” If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
Yes, well done Newshub, it was moving, during a pursuit! Gold Star for you. If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
