Media
Stuff’s Faux Offence, Trying to Create the Narrative Again.
Stuff have been busy trying to whip up extremist hysteria again. Nothing quite like creating your own stories so you can have something to write about! Auckland landlord’s ‘non-stir fry cooking’ ad is racial discrimination – TradeMe Stuff and Nonsense. Dec 16th I was excited to learn all about
Stuff Up of the Day
Today’s Stuff up is from the NZ Herald and it is a doozy! A “man show” by police? Did they go the Full Monty? “Blue light disco’s” aren’t what they used to be!
Don’t Let the Facts Ruin Your Day
The folks at Stuff are all tingley-legged over a ‘Fox News’ poll showing ‘record’ support for Donald Trump’s impeachment and removal from office. Since modern reporters can’t afford time away from their precious Twitbook screens for actual analysis it’s left to mere commoners to do the
The Media’s Disaster Addiction
The White Island volcano did what any volcano might do naturally, but the fact people were on it having a tourist experience when it happened was a terrible tragedy. The aftermath, however, is the MSM reviving the likes of Pike River, the Christchurch Earthquake, and the Christchurch terror attack whilst
In This Week’s DUBIOUS Tabloids: The Queen’s Worst nightmare, Prince Andrew Jailed & Royal Cosmetic Surgery Exposed
Boing Boing The Royal soap opera continues apace in this week’s tawdry tabloids, increasingly untethered from reality. “Dying Queen’s Worst Nightmare!” screams the cover of the ‘Globe.’ “Prince Andrew Arrested! Secretly held in remote tower. FBI grills royal over Epstein murder.” There’s so much fantasy to unpack
Stuff Up of the Day
Technically this one from Sun Media isn’t a stuff-up, it was deliberate. Perhaps they have gone barking mad?
Stuff Up of the Day
Perhaps not so much a stuff up as another sign of the appalling editorial standard in place at Stuff these days. An Auckland Airport spokesman said the incident on Thursday afternoon involved Air New Zealand flight NZ8109 from Auckland to Palmerston North. Airways spokeswoman Emily Davies said the pilot phoned
Hobson’s Pledge SMEARED as ‘an anti-Treaty rights’ group
Don Brash Co-spokeperson for the Hobson’s Pledge Trust On the 8th of December, in commenting on the decision by New Zealand First to vote against his Bill to entrench the Maori electorates, Te Tai Tonga MP Tino Tirikatene accused that party of pandering to anti-treaty rights group
Stuff Up of the Day
Neither the NZ Herald front-page headline nor the article itself showed an accurate conversion of 107 million quid. The NZ Herald Front page and article have both since been corrected to $208M.
Anthony Hopkins Dares Admit: Actors Are ‘Pretty Stupid’
In an age when, despite all the evidence to the contrary, celebrities imagine themselves the world’s moral and intellectual paragons, it’s refreshing to hear an actor admit the unspeakable: celebrities aren’t very clever. As I warned BFD readers many moons ago, celebrities aren’t very well educated
Stuff Up of the Day
“Budget 202” – I know the CoL are taking us back to the dark ages, but that seems a bit far.
Maori Place Name Debate Erupts into Call to Change NZ’s Name.
deja vu Amidst all the tragedy, suffering and loss of life, from the White Island eruption, Carmen Parahi has seen fit to insist that all place names in New Zealand should revert to their original names, and that includes dropping New Zealand for Aotearoa. Only Stuff would think it appropriate
Face of the Day
Greta Thunberg has been named Time’s 2019 Person of the Year, becoming the youngest ever recipient of the title. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7780825/Greta-Thunberg-named-Times-2019-Person-Year.