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Go Woke Go Broke

Go Woke Go Broke

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No News for Boomers

No News for Boomers

JD As a Boomer I have been conditioned, throughout my life, to watch the six o’clock news, which usually meant the TV1 bulletin. Then, about eighteen months ago, growing tired of the increasingly pro-Labour, leftist tenor of their reporting, I switched to TV3. Imagine my disappointment when I found,

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CNN’s Arab Staff Want Bias Not Balance

Tim Graham Tim Graham is Executive Editor of NewsBusters and host of the NewsBusters Podcast. His career at the MRC began in February 1989 as associate editor of MediaWatch, the monthly newsletter of the MRC before the Internet era. newsbusters.org The far-left website The Intercept was very excited on

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Tell us, Stuff, how did the Office of Births, Deaths and Marriages let their parents get away with names like that? 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

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MSM Say the Quiet Bit Out Loud

MSM Say the Quiet Bit Out Loud

bobmccoskrie.com In quite an incredible admission, the previous head of TV3 news Mark Jennings confessed that senior journalists around the country discussed the possibility of the media not reporting Winston Peters if and when he spoke about the Labour government’s $55m public interest journalism fund. But it’s

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Meta’s Refusal to Pay for News

Peter Greste Professor of Journalism and Communications, Macquarie University When we speak of media freedom, we generally mean it in terms of freedom from unnecessary legal restrictions, so journalists and their sources are not threatened with prosecution for exposing the misdeeds of governments. But yesterday’s announcement by Meta (Facebook’

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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

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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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