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HDPA Makes an Awful Lot of Presumptions

HDPA Makes an Awful Lot of Presumptions

I don’t often read anything written by Heather Du Plessis-Allan, she kind of winds me up so I just don’t click on her articles. But her latest ‘Premium’ article in ‘A newspaper’ piqued my interest. I had been thinking about doing a post about the Woman Who

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Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff Up of the Day

This carelessness is getting beyond a joke and to me, it sends a clear signal that Stuff has abandoned any attempt at professionalism. This from today’s issue in an article entitled, “Long Balmy Days Ahead” (at 11:50.) According to Metservice meteorologist Andrew James are some fronts coming bringing

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Dear Mainstream Media

Dear Mainstream Media

The following letter has been sent to various MSM print outlets as well as CoL politicians. It was entirely predictable that we would get sensational alarmist reporting from the UN IPCC this week.  We get similar stories every year and especially before each convention where Al Gore and Leonardo Dicaprio

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Joe Biden’s Blatant Quid Pro Quo

Joe Biden’s Blatant Quid Pro Quo

The US mainstream media has shown itself to be totally biased, unreliable and dishonest, pushing a strong anti-Trump and pro-Democrat agenda since before the 2016 election. There seems to be no end to the outright dishonesty. Formerly reputable news organizations like CNN and other major TV networks, award-

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Letter to the Editor: Yet More Negativity

Letter to the Editor: Yet More Negativity

Dear Editor Spare my days. The long-suffering listeners of RNZ are just recovering from the endless Tuia 250 series of programmes and interviews. These belittled the achievement of Captain Cook in finding New Zealand in 1769 and his reporting of it to the post stone-age world. As if

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Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff Up of the Day

“Near the top of the agenda was a “table top exercise” centred on a scenario where a natural disaster strikes the fictional fictional nation of Becarra in the south-west Pacific.” stuff.co.nz/national/117557713/green-mp-questions-why-16000-military-exercise-held-at-skycity So, super made up

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Legacy Media: LYING by Omission

Legacy Media: LYING by Omission

There are many ways to lie and not all of them involve purely making things up. As Tolkien wrote, some of the most devastating lies are those which are seeded with a little truth. Another effective way of lying is lying by omission. As an infamous example goes, if someone

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Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff Up of the Day

***I have run out of Stuff Ups. Please send screenshots of Stuff Ups that you spot to sb at thebfd.co.nz I am asking for screenshots because some of you have sent me links to articles and by the time I view them the error has been corrected by

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Media Council Rules Against Waatea News

Media Council Rules Against Waatea News

A complaint against Waatea News by Rob Paterson has been upheld. Waatea News published an article on August 9, 2019 headlined Hobson’s Pledge tries to roll Tauranga land return. It reported Tauranga historian Buddy Mikaere saying that the local council needed to stand up to a campaign by Don

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We’re So Sorry, Darling Students …

We’re So Sorry, Darling Students …

We’re so sorry if we caused you any pain (With apologies to the Beatles) because last week, The Daily was not the paper that Northwestern students deserve. Apparently, on November 5, there was an utterly traumatic event perpetrated at Northwestern University in the US.  The college newspaper The Daily

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