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Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff Live updates on that fire. Projects are escaping into the harbour…  Not just projects but projects OR combustion so double stuff up. How about, “Products of Combustion.”

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My Dirty Little Secret

My Dirty Little Secret

Love Island Australia is addictive and appealing for all the wrong reasons. A bunch of gorgeous, virile boys and girls draped over the designer indoor/outdoor furniture at a luxury villa with instructions to couple up or stay single and risk elimination. No one wants to be sent home from

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Radio Hauraki: 1966

Radio Hauraki: 1966

By AHNZ Today in New Zealand history, 23 October 1966, Radio Hauraki’s ship Tiri set out to bust the State’s monopoly on radio broadcasting. The State has a very long history of controlling the news media in New Zealand.  The ‘news’ pathway of all radio news passed through

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Poll Results: World Cup Viewing

Poll Results: World Cup Viewing

The majority of The BFD readers polled watched Rugby World Cup via delayed coverage on TV One, closely followed by the Spark sports app. The majority would NOT use the Spark sports app again to watch the Rugby. The majority of those polled did not have the Spark Sports app

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Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff Up of the Day

From the NZ Herald. A dude bassed someone to death! What, he hit him with a speaker? A guitar? They even spelt the guy’s name wrong in the photo, it should be Vickery.

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Your Tax Dollars Hard at Work

Your Tax Dollars Hard at Work

Good morning. Just a thought for the day: be grateful. Because while you were sleeping, your ‘paltry’ $14,500,000 tax dollars were hard at work inside the deep recesses and cavities of Radio New Zealand to bring you this gem: an ‘explainer’ titled “What’s propaganda decolonisation?” Maybe they

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Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff Up of the Day

I hope the Fire Service didn’t rely on the map in ‘A Newspaper’ to find the fire. Albert St is actually Hobson St; Queen St is actually Albert St and they have pinpointed the fire in the bus terminal!

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TVNZ On Air Creates an Affront to our Nation

TVNZ On Air Creates an Affront to our Nation

Press Release: New Conservative New Conservative deputy leader calls for the immediate cancellation of the seven-part documentary funded by NZ On Air, Land of the Long White Cloud. “Following on from the tragedy that occurred in March this year, New Zealand was applauded for standing united against hatred. In

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Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff Up of the Day

Samuel Marsden arrived in New Zealand in  1814 but the article below which is from the Marlborough Express seems to think that more than a hundred years after he arrived he was out planting grape vines!

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Not Much Value for Taxpayer’s Money

When Australia’s legacy media huffed and puffed about “press freedom” this week, many readers were quick to point out their hypocrisy. Not least is the fact that, when the Gillard government tried to impose an unprecedented press regulation system, much of Australia’s media were not just shamefully silent,

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