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Sunday Nightcap

Is it hard to simulate insanity? Brave journalist Nellie Bly was the first who proved it is not. And the conditions in an asylum for mentally ill shocked her. Nellie Bly was a pioneer of investigative journalism. She was born in 1864 and, unlike other women, wanted to have a

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Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff Up of the Day

Today’s Stuff up of the day is from ‘A Newspaper’, AKA the NZ Herald and shows that they do not have an eye for detail.

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Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff Up of the Day

Today’s Stuff up of the day is from Stuff and involves Simon Bridges’ personal pronouns. They could make up their minds whether to use his or him. This will be good news for Bridges and confidence in his leadership – a breach into the 30s would spell danger zone for

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Stuff Up of the Day *UPDATED

Stuff Up of the Day *UPDATED

Warning We got it wrong ( sad face) but we own our mistakes on the BFD so will not remove the evidence of our very own Stuff Up. Today’s Stuff Up of the day comes from the NZ Herald who clearly have Left-wing politics on the brain. The video

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Free Speech in Harm’s Way

Free Speech in Harm’s Way

The Free Speech Coalition has warned that we should be nervous about “a new strategy for the Broadcasting Standards Authority to focus on “harm” when administering the codes.” The new strategy is being developed along with a government review of ‘the legal approach to “hate”’. People, of course, will define

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Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff Up of the Day

We have heard the NZ Police Commissioner refer to some guns as being inherently evil so it should come as no surprise that a journalist on Stuff has called them…BOLD. Yep, those guns sure have a bad attitude…

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Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff Up of the Day

Today’s Stuff Up at Stuff shows that the left brain doesn’t know what the right brain is doing. Paragraph (A) […]  and for some reason that is not recorded in the police summary of facts on the case, Stent took issue with this group of revellers. Paragraph (B) […] In

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Transcript: Winston Peters Condemns Colmar Brunton

Transcript: Winston Peters Condemns Colmar Brunton

Duncan: The latest political poll has NZ First below the threshold to stay in parliament, the party dropping from 5% to 3.3% in this latest poll.  The same poll has National ahead of Labour by 2% points and joining us now is NZ First leader, Deputy Prime Minister, Acting

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Transcript: Simon Bridges Shows Some Spine

Transcript: Simon Bridges Shows Some Spine

Mike: So over a good couple of days, as we were saying earlier in the show, for Simon Bridges’ political party – the cancer care announcement I think went reasonably well over the weekend and you’ve got to argue that it was an extraordinary thing for an opposition party to

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Trump / Sanders Media Double Standard

Trump / Sanders Media Double Standard

Media Outraged Over Trump’s Tweets, Ignores Bernie Sanders Similar Statements. Over the past week we have been embroiled in another Donald Trump Tweet story pertaining to Elijah Cummings district in Baltimore and we know the media loves running wall to wall press about Trump’s tweets. Interestingly, however, Bernie

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Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff Up of the Day

The geniuses who make the Stuff quiz think that the first Tour de France was in 1803 – some 216 years ago! Considering that the bicycle wasn’t even invented until 1817, some 14 years later, I find their answer to be quite improbable (also the bike doesn’t look like

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Ardern Still in Training

Ardern Still in Training

By John Two good articles have appeared this week: Fran O’Sullivan in the Weekend Herald criticising the leader of the Labour party and Matthew Hooton doing the same to the leader of the National party. Neither could be termed complimentary. Far from it. Let’s look at Fran’s.

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Dying Legacy Media is all Snitches & Hit-Jobs

Dying Legacy Media is all Snitches & Hit-Jobs

The legacy media is fast degenerating into a dying morass of hacks who mistake activism for journalism, and vicious social media snitches. Enter Buzzfeed’s Joe Bernstein. When Bernstein interviewed comedian Sam Hyde, his first question accused Hyde of being “alt-right”. Hyde’s responded with bewilderment (“Is that some

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Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff journalists are time travellers, can see into the future, simply do not know what day of the week it is or publish week-old news. A headline on Stuff about a motor vehicle accident on the Paremata Haywards Road published on Thursday the 25th of July said that the

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Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff again. In this case the writer is confused between the meaning of inhabitable and uninhabitable. inhabitable adjective 1. suitable to live in; habitable.”soon we will run out of inhabitable space on the planet”synonyms:habitable, fit to live in, fit to occupy, usable, liveable-in, suitable for residential

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