Hideo Kojima is a demigod for computer gamers and perhaps the only game creator to be hailed as an auteur. His Metal Gear series are benchmarks of the genre. On the other hand, The Last of Us 2, the latest release from developers Naughty Dog, is plumbing the same depths
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PM Jacinda Ardern’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week just keeps rolling on – in significant parts of the Australian media, at least. Australian journalists are also having to learn a whole bunch of foreign names. The only name that normally shines bright and clear on their dim consciousness
Forbes this week without explanation has memory-holed an article by award-winning climate activist Michael Shellenberger, in which he apologizes “for the climate scare we created over the last 30 years.” At The BFD we like to shine sunlight on content assigned to the memory hole by MSM publishers
Fishing industry Michael Morrah (Newshub): Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash blames pressure from NZ First for delay in fishing boat cameras in recording Herald: NZ First blamed for delay in fishing boat cameras by Stuart Nash in leaked recording Scott Palmer (Newshub): Winston Peters launches attack on Newshub journalist Michael Morrah
“Sites” instead of “sights” So they had the crim on Police construction “sites”? Appalling. If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
Tuesday 30 June 2020 News: South Taranaki’s Parihaka community gets $14m from Provincial Growth Fund stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/121969410/south-taranakis-parihaka-community-gets-14m-from-provincial-growth-fu Warning over Northland tapu sites: Taratara Mountain sacred and off limits nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?
It’s hardly surprising that the New Zealand media remain firmly besotted with Jacinda Ardern – for reasons of both ideology and survival. The latter, increasingly so as Ardern dangles a juicy financial carrot in front of dying legacy media outlets. It’s also not particularly surprising to see the endless
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com In their typical pack-running imitative practise, our media have had a field-day slamming the Health Minister David Clark for allegedly, “throwing the Director of Health, Ashley Bloomfield, under the bus”. This is rubbish. The failure of the checking system fell squarely on Bloomfield’
Greens Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Taxing weath: a necessary step, or unachievable pipe dream? Dave Armstrong (Stuff): Greens’ wealth tax will appeal to Labour’s Left-wingers Richard Harman (Politik): Ardern shuns Greens’ wealth tax; Nats mount scare campaign Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Is the Greens’ poverty plan a flight of
I wonder what the NZ Herald means by “notched protocols”? If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
2016 should go down in history as The Year Journalism Died. But this was no murder. This was a suicide. To be sure, journalism had had its head in the oven for decades, but 2016 was the year it finally cut its wrists and jumped in the bath clutching a
Election Tracy Watkins (Stuff): Elections are meant to be a contest of ideas, but 2020 is in danger of being hijacked by the intolerant mob Bryce Edwards (Guardian): We are in a period of great political volatility – the New Zealand election is far from decided Audrey Young (Herald): National is
A journalist who doesn’t understand the difference between “know” and now. Sad. Just sad. If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
