What does Fake News do when confronted with their own fake news? Well, they fake it, and by doing so descend from fake news to something lower. I know not what that may be called, maybe deep-fake-news or worse-than-fake, perhaps vandalised-news? Who knows? Maybe just
Last month a formal complaint was sent to NZME Radio after The BFD broke the story about Newstalk ZB trying to cover up the shocking behaviour of their on-air guest Mary Lambie. “If all Trump supporters injected themselves with disinfectant, it would not be a bad thing.” Mary Lambie
Prior to the ill-considered donation of $50 million dollars of taxpayers’ money to an already compliant media, there was the occasional lightweight criticism from journalists of the worst Government in a lifetime. Since receiving the gratuity, whether because of instructions from on high or not, there appears to be
Fresh water reforms, environment, conservation Richard Harman (Politik): Swimming together; the coalition agrees on freshwater reforms Collette Devlin (Stuff): NZ First claims win as Government softens freshwater reforms Jamie Morton (Herald): New Govt water reforms miss mark on nitrogen pollution, advocates say Science Media Centre: Action for Healthy Waterways – Expert
Sometimes an article just makes your blood boil. I am normally on a lukewarm simmer when I read about Ardern’s so-called kindness in reference to all the cruel and unkind decisions made by her government but an article yesterday…well let’s just say that if I was
“Leftital” – is that a hospital for broken snowflakes or just a reporter with a heavy Irish accent? If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
Mark Richardson from the AM show has criticised new National leader Todd Muller’s performance saying that he’s “failed every time he’s stood in front of the media”. Watch Muller’s performance below and decide for yourself if the criticism is justified or not. Please share your views
Having heard comments about how dreadful Jack Tame was and how terrible Todd Muller looked I thought it might be interesting so I went looking for it. The first thing that struck me was how uncomfortable Muller looked and how totally distracting his arms are. I’d noticed that in
National Party Tova O’Brien (Newshub): National sets up ‘intelligence unit’ to dig up info on political opponents during 2020 election campaign Claire Trevett (Herald): Todd Muller’s sink or swim introduction to Leader of Opposition (paywalled) Mark Longley (Newshub): Dear Todd, the honeymoon is over – welcome to political leadership
Thank goodness we have access to the vast “majorly” of New Zealand’s best journalism. If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
Welfare Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Former Green Party leader Metiria Turei puts Government on blast over new payment scheme Stuff Editorial: Question marks over new relief package Thomas Manch (Stuff): Government defends unemployment payments, says it’s considering ‘social insurance’ RNZ: Welfare advocates not happy with Covid-19 umemployment benefit Sarah
Stuff don’t seem to realise that Facebook and Twitter are different. If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
Redundancy scheme Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Opinion: Unemployment payment scheme shows Govt knows benefits insufficient Rachel Sadler (Newshu): Auckland Action Against Poverty says Government’s Income Relief Payments create ‘two tiers of unemployed’ people Steven Cowan: Two-tier welfare David Farrar: Two tiers of unemployment benefit Craig McCullough (RNZ): Green Party
They’ve been delivering umbrellas? Maybe they sallied forth with parasols? If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
All of a sudden the MSM is very big on conflicts of interest even if they were eventually declared. There has been a big pile-on and a concerted attempt to throw political commentator and lobbyist Matthew Hooton under a bus. Before I go any further, for the record I
National Party leadership change – commentary, analysis Richard Harman (Politik): Adams’ return signals what really lay behind Muller’s campaign John Armstrong (1News): Todd Muller is capable and qualified despite uninspiring opening as National leader Claire Trevett (Herald): Anatomy of a coup: How Todd Muller felled Simon Bridges and who helped
