c mccoy Youtube Another great video from the NZ video editing talent C.McCoy. Without telling us what to think he cleverly uses his editing skills to show us what is going on, gently leading us down the path to forming our own conclusion. If you enjoyed this BFD article
Newshub Reid-Research poll Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern goes stratospheric, Simon Bridges is annihilated Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Politically Simon Bridges is a dead man walking Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Simon Bridges still confident he will lead National into election despite personal poll rating below 5 percent Jenna
“Swich” – Sounds like a new Swiss Cheese! Are they too busy? Do they not use Spell Check any more? Do they not care about getting it right? If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
Covid-19 coronavirus: Donald Trump’s laughable excuse for the scale of US outbreak NZ Herald headline Given the amount of US TV news I watch, how did that one get past me? What’s he said now that warrants being called a “laughable excuse”? Maybe it’s something new
Two articles in yesterday’s Sunday Star Times broached the sensitive topic of mass-media survival. Both had some points more relevant to a decade ago than today, such has the landscape changed in the period. One piece noted that the government had failed to ‘front up’ with a media
George I witnessed an extraordinary event last night, a whole news hour on TV1 without one item where the PM was featured. But in Stuff yesterday morning I was confronted with the breaking news that the PM had to wait for two minutes in a queue for a coffee at
Budget, economy John Armstrong (1News): Jobs, jobs jobs or spend, spend, spend? Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Political Roundup: A homecoming or still adrift – how radical is Labour’s budget? Audrey Young (Herald): National’s uphill battle on a Budget for a crisis (paywalled) Peter Dunne: An extraordinary but pedestrian budget
If you believe this face of the day’s tall tale then I have a bridge to sell you… Helped dye partners hair and gave daughter a haircut with scissors I bought at supermarket for $6. Remarkably both parties still talking to me. — Clarke Gayford (@NZClarke) May 17, 2020 Methinks
It’s quite rare to find a ‘Stuff Up’ at at this outlet! When “the” should be that. If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The NZ Herald recently highlighted the suicide of a young self-employed butcher who saw his life’s work go down the drain by the utterly insane edict that meat could only be purchased at supermarkets. The farcical rule was subsequently wiped but here’s
In this example, RNZ and Sunlive report that Jacinda wants to put funding into public houses. Hoorah, Free beer! Jacinda, I don’t think that “public houses” means what you think it means. The word “pub” comes from “public house.” In older times, the term signified someone’s house that
Yesterday Grant Robertson was supposed to be speaking to the Epidemic Response Committee but he failed to show in the end. Maybe it was because he read how the NZ Herald described his opinions: If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your
Budget – commentary and reactions Henry Cooke (Stuff):Grant Robertson isn’t using this crisis to transform the country Max Rashbrooke (RNZ): Robertson goes for repair, not rebuild Matthew Hooton (Herald): Grant Robertson conservative despite huge numbers (paywalled) Audrey Young (Herald): Simon Bridges vs Jacinda Ardern over $20 billion blank cheque
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This is a beauty. The repeater reporter means to say “Marae”, but instead says “Mare“, and then at the bottom we have an add begging us to pay for “New Zealand’s best journalism”. That’s got to be a Gold Medal winner right there! If you enjoyed this BFD
