Government, parliament 1News: Poll: 88% of Kiwis trust Government’s coronavirus response, vastly higher than other nations Henry Cooke (Stuff): Public surge in trust of Government during Covid-19 crisis Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Almost 90% of New Zealanders back Ardern government on Covid-19 – poll Jo Moir (RNZ): An election
“Police are appealing for information about a possibel fake private invesigator.“ I thought a ‘possibel‘ was a unit of sound pressure produced by a marsupial on your deck at 3 am. I have no idea what an invesigator is. If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please
Public health strategy, exiting lockdown Thomas Manch (Stuff): A path out of lockdown is being charted, but experts say New Zealand is not ready Nick Wison, Ayesha Verrall, Len Cook, Alistair Gray, Amanda Kvalsvig, Michael Baker (Public Health Expert): Testing for COVID-19 in NZ to Achieve the Elimination Goal
The caption of a photo of a Stuff article article is today’s stuff up of the day. “Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has affectively placed the blame for the daily testing capacity not being reached on clinicians.”. If you’re familiar with the noun ‘affect’, well, maybe it’s not
Dear Jacinda, You seem to operate under the old adage that if you tell someone something often enough they will believe it. May I politely ask, was this part of your communications degree? Again at your Sunday press conference, you stated that observing the trajectories overseas had helped the Government
Health minister demoted, Bridges defends commute 1News: ‘I got it wrong’ – David Clark says he’ll continue as Health Minister at PM’s discretion after breaking lockdown rules Newshub: Health Minister Dr David Clark has ‘no excuses’ for lockdown breach Thomas Manch (Stuff): Health Minister stripped of other portfolios after
Editors note: Due to technical issues yesterday that prevented our articles from being viewed by most of our audience I have made the decision to republish them today. What do you think dear readers? Is this a stuff up by Stuff or did they quote our PM verbatim and it
Editors note: Due to technical issues yesterday that prevented our articles from being viewed by most of our audience I have made the decision to republish them today. When William Blake wrote that “A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent,” he meant
Public health strategy Charlie Mitchell (Stuff): How hard, how early? The numbers behind New Zealand’s quick lockdown Michael Baker and Nick Wilson (Stuff): Five reasons why we must fight, and how it will make New Zealand better Dan Satherley and Emma Stanford (Newshub): NZ with a chance to be
Editors note: Due to technical issues yesterday that prevented our articles from being viewed by most of our audience I have made the decision to republish them today. The idea from Hardernurly’s (Jacinda Ardern’s) misleadia-managers to plagiarise the slogan ‘Test, test, test‘ in the Covid Catastrophe propaganda
Editors note: Due to technical issues yesterday that prevented our articles from being viewed by most of our audience I have made the decision to republish them today. It’s my own fault. Believing it was, surely, not possible to say anything more arrogant than her performance on March 19th
Exhibit 1: Siouxsie “Nice But Dim” Wiles Yep, and she is the go-to person for the luvvies at The Spinoff and other media. In January she said: An infectious diseases expert says New Zealand is likely to escape a coronavirus outbreak. The deadly virus has infected almost three thousand
What do you think dear readers? Is this a stuff up by Stuff or did they quote our PM verbatim and it was her that got the well-known idiom wrong? If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
When William Blake wrote that “A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent,” he meant it as an admonition. But the mainstream media seem to have taken it as an instruction. When they’re not straight-up lying, they obscure the truth with
The idea from Hardernurly’s (Jacinda Ardern’s) misleadia-managers to plagiarise the slogan ‘Test, test, test‘ in the Covid Catastrophe propaganda war has proven to be very bad advice indeed. She should have known better, communications degree ‘n all. It’s had some severe blow-back, denting her credibility,
It’s my own fault. Believing it was, surely, not possible to say anything more arrogant than her performance on March 19th when she declared herself and her administration “your single source of truth”, I hadn’t taken the opportunity to recalibrate my supersiliometer which carefully measures the contemptuous arrogance
