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A Response to Bryce Edwards’ Opinion Piece

J. Andrews A response to Bryce Edwards’ opinion piece Good afternoon Bryce, With regards to your recent OpEd thebfd.co.nz/2024/03/03/trust-needs-to-be-rebuilt Yes, indeed trust needs to be rebuilt. I found the 14+ comments on your article more interesting than what you wrote in the sense that

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The MSM Were the Other Losers

The MSM Were the Other Losers

Alia Bland voicesforfreedom.co.nz T There’s nothing quite like a quick watch of the infamous two different classes of people “yip, yip” video of our former leader, Jacinda Jackboot (thanks for the moniker, Lindsay Perigo), to get the old blood boiling! She might be gone, but I don’

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You Could Listen to Your Audience

You Could Listen to Your Audience

Despite their best efforts, missionaries to this beautiful group of islands didn’t manage to convince locals they encountered to end several of their more unpleasant cultural practices for many, many years. One of those was the widespread tangihanga (or mourning) custom among women to slash their face and breast

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Why Can’t He Show Strength Against the Media Onslaught?

Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com Our media just do not like Christopher Luxon. But of all the issues they could and should be attacking him

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Wouldn’t want to be thee. Where does the ball sit? If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading

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Is Musk Backsliding on Free Speech?

Gabriela Pariseau Gabriela is an Assistant Editor in the Media Research Center’s Free Speech America division. She is a graduate of Christendom College where she earned a BA in History. Gabriela has also contributed to The Catholic Register, Arlington Catholic Herald, Students For Life of America and Iowa Right

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And They Chortle No More

Paul Holmes once said the main quality for being a journalist was ‘to have lived’. By this he meant that you should have been around the block a couple of times, experienced highs and lows in life and struggled at something and come through the other side in one piece:

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No One Cuddles a Corpse Quite like the Media

No One Cuddles a Corpse Quite like the Media

The media are pretty much all cuddling up to the corpse of Newshub. It is unedifying and and as predictable as it is pathetic. There are some exceptions to that, however, and one is Heather du Plessis-Allan. She says it’s dead: let it go. We need to let Newshub

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Sorry, Stuff, not the right content to contend with. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more

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The Ministry of AI Truth

CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org Remember HAL, the homicidal Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey? Well, if you haven’t had the pleasure yet, let me introduce you to Gemini, Google’s “multimodal large language model.” Gemini hasn’t killed anyone yet – as far as

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Trust Needs to be Rebuilt

Trust Needs to be Rebuilt

Bryce Edwards I am Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington, where I run the Democracy Project and am a full-time researcher in the School of Government. democracyproject.substack.com Democracy is the loser whenever a major media company disappears. We’ve seen a total consensus about this

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff‘s stuff of stuff ups continues unabated. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more enjoyable

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Why This Data Is So Important

Why This Data Is So Important

Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11 – 13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1 – 13. alwynpoole.substack.

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The Cumeuppance of the 4th Estate

The Cumeuppance of the 4th Estate

I don’t feel sorry for mainstream journalists as they have brought this rejection onto themselves. Even the front-line teams that present the news are equally as guilty. They know that much of the political coverage and the climate change nonsense was untrue and slanted, yet like little wokish puppy

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