Good morning; fellow right-wing nut-jobs. Today it is my duty to remind all oldies to imbibe your falsehoods, which, according to the good and great people at Stuff, is what we do. Repeating a claim first used less than a week ago, the organ announced in an editorial
When a comedian opens with jokes about Anthony Bourdain’s suicide, you know the show ain’t going to be no safe space. Dave Chappelle’s Sticks and Stones is about as un-safe a space for modern audiences as could be imagined. For just over an hour, Chappelle pokes
Newstalk ZB week on demand Monday 9 September 7:15-7:30 am audio begins at 1:55 By the way, this piece of reading I had over the weekend – and please read it if you are interested in the subject, because it’s a very comprehensive piece written by
In this video Steve Turley begins by discussing the latest US cable TV audience viewing stats. He then moves to a general discussion about the “media society”, and how our access to media is changing, and that (in the US at least) there is a move away from the leftist
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” In other words, if you get tricked by someone once it means they’re an a**ehole. But if you get tricked twice it means you’re a sucker. This handy saying came back to me amid the
Labour’s disgraceful handling of complaints about sexual abuse among its staff and volunteers are now finally being picked up by the mainstream media and not before time. Andrea Vance and Alison Mau, both of whom can rightfully be considered to be supporters of this current government, have banded together
A group of neuroscientists have tapped into the brains of Kiwis to find out how they respond to reading a newspaper. A Newspaper The BFD conducted its own highly scientific study to find out how our readers respond to reading the BFD by getting a volunteer to wear one of
There are few clearer illustrations of the yawning void between the left elite and the hoi polloi than Rotten Tomatoes. For those unfamiliar with it, Rotten Tomatoes is a ‘review aggregator’ site which provides averages of movie critics ratings, alongside an audience score. The divide between the two is often
On the same day that my article Coverage of Free Speech Trial Illustrates Media Bias was published, Karl du Fresne on his blog tackled the same topic. His article had the headline Activism disguised as journalism, and it analysed the Radio NZ hit jobs against both Pregnancy Counselling Services and
The definition of sought is a person or thing that has been looked for or requested. 1. She eagerly slid into his embrace and welcomed the warm lips that sought hers. 2. Starting to panic, Deidre sought some escape route. 3. He sought you out? 4. Some had escaped, though
Dieuwe de Boer Right Minds Liam Hehir, Stuff’s token moderate, has decided to call it quits. His reasons are fairly noble: he wants to spend more time with his family, and having to write a weekly column is too much pressure to balance against a real career and family.
Radio NZ Morning Report Corin: Well the National party says the government has broken its promise by scrapping its KiwiBuild targets. Yesterday the new minister, Megan Woods, ditched the target of building 100,000 homes over ten years saying “the pressure of meeting that target is partly to blame for
Today’s Stuff Up of the day was spotted by Sir Bob Jones in the NZ Herald. He observes that it has been “8 months since the NZ Herald website first ran an item titled “The Life and Tragic Death of Sonny Fai”.” By all accounts he was “promising” in
It is quite depressing to live in a country where there is such hostility towards free speech. A Radio NZ article covering the Free Speech trial in Auckland did not even try to hide its bias. One of the people involved in the trial who is standing up for free
