The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
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Govt Decides What Publications Can & Cannot Publish
Free Speech Coalition New Zealand’s political and economic events of the last eight days have been the biggest seen in our lifetime. Among the decisions taken on what businesses can and cannot operate, the Ministry of Culture and Heritage has decided what publications can and cannot publish for the
Daily News Roundup
Compliance and enforcing the lockdown Catriona MacLennan (RNZ): An open letter to the police in a time of Covid-19 Grant Illingworth (Herald): The need for legal clarity in a pandemic world (paywalled) John Hopkins (Stuff): The rule of law matters even more during an emergency 1News: Three people arrested
Trust Us They Say, We Are the Only Source of Truth
The Prime Minister told us all that you should believe no one but them as the source of truth in this disaster. That would be fine if they were actually telling us the truth. I’ll give two examples. On Sunday we were told that 56 people have recovered from
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
Stuff fails to proofread a headline. It should read ‘silver-tongued‘ If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
Commentators Going Easy on Ardern in Life or Death Crisis
In A Newspaper, Matthew Hooton informs us that Jacinda will get us through. Chris Trotter gets poetic with his ‘the incredible lightness of being Jacinda’, appearing to have taken leave of his senses. And then Paul Little’s warm and fuzzy ‘I’m glad Jacinda’s got our backs for
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
Sometimes things are just unintentionally funny such as the placement of these two NZ Herald headlines… If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
Headline of the Day
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How China Built a Twitter Propaganda Machine Then Let It Loose on Coronavirus
Jeff Kao Mia Shuang Li ProPublica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Kalen Keegan, a college student at the University of Nebraska Omaha, immediately noticed when her Twitter account unleashed a torrent of posts in Chinese. “My other account got hacked??,” the soccer player posted on a replacement
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
I am all for the use of alliteration especially in a headline but what exactly is a Cedding? If you enjoyed this BFD Stuff up of the day please consider sharing it with your friends.
Shut Up, You Dumb, Hysterical Hacks
I thought the legacy media lost their remaining shreds of sanity when Donald Trump was elected. Turns out I underestimated them. Impossible as it might seem, with the outbreak of the Chinese Virus, they’ve gone even more barking mad. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, like US President Donald Trump,
Government Should Kick ‘Stuff’s’ Butt and Hard
The below Stuff headline is totally inaccurate, irresponsible, misleading and scaremongering in the extreme and Fairfax media should be ashamed. “New model shows coronavirus could kill 80,000 Kiwis without lock-down ” Henry Cooke – 17:44, Mar 26 2020 “It also shows that the lockdown may have to last far
Media Are Losing the Trust War
As the Joker exclaims in Tim Burton’s Batman, “And now, folks, it’s time for ‘Who do you trust!’” Well, voters in Australia and America are telling pollsters who they trust. Cue sad trombones for the legacy media. One-third of people in the latest Guardian Essential survey believe
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
The NZ Herald – not once, but three times! It’s “Quantitative Easing” What is the difference between quantitative and qualitative data? Quantitative data can be counted, measured, and expressed using numbers. Qualitative data is descriptive and conceptual. Qualitative data can be categorized based on traits and characteristics. google.com If