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Snobby ABC Journo Gets Sniffy About Booze

I have to say, I’m at a loss to understand what the point of this long-winded Jeremiad from Australia’s taxpayer-funded left-wing behemoth really is. In sum, they seem to be bitching about the fact that big retailers are selling booze that looks just like the hoity-toity stuff the

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff is so pleased with their cruise ship story on Feb 19th that they repeat whole sections of it. 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

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The Challenges Luxon’s Govt Faces

The Challenges Luxon’s Govt Faces

Michael Bassett Political historian Michael Bassett CNZM is the author of 15 books, was a regular columnist for the Fairfax newspapers and a former Minister in the 1984-1990 governments bassettbrashandhide.com Unless you were present to hear the Prime Minister deliver his State of the Nation speech on 18 February

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The only thing King-like about Kainga Ora is the right royal pig’s ear of a mess it is in. 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

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What Would You Like With Your News?

How thick is the collective New Zealand media industry? Thick as a brick? Think tons of bricks. Yes, they’re that stupid. With mainstream news publishing racing downhill fast, like a runaway jalopy, how stupid would you have to be to step on the accelerator – twice? You remember the first

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Well-Funded Groups Working Behind the Scenes

Graham Adams Graham Adams is a freelance editor, journalist and columnist. He lives on Auckland’s North Shore. bassettbrashandhide.com Last week, Mihingarangi Forbes made an extraordinary claim while interviewing David Seymour on Mata Reports, a taxpayer-funded current affairs programme which, she says, looks at events through an “indigenous lens”

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Another new word created by Stuff. 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 click here

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All Smoke, But No Fire

All Smoke, But No Fire

The Labour Party is desperate to light a fire under the Government’s tobacco excise increases. Unfortunately they have a very weak person on the job. It’s the former Health Minister Ayesha Verrall, who, going by her performances in the House, would be hard pushed to light a cigarette,

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

I must have missed WWI finishing within the last five years… hell of a long war! 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

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Soros and His Media Influence

Soros and His Media Influence

Tom Olohan Tom Olohan joined the Media Research Center as a staff writer for MRC Free Speech America and MRC Business in April 2023. Previously Tom worked for America Rising as a field researcher and media monitoring associate and interned with Heritage Action and AIPAC. He graduated from the University

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Nope, Nothing to See Here

Nope, Nothing to See Here

Curtis Houck Curtis Houck currently serves as the Managing Editor of NewsBusters after almost two years as a news analyst in the Media Research Center’s News Analysis Division. During that time, he served as the sole evening news analyst, chronicling the best and worst of the network evening newscasts,

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Looks like Auckland has a new street. 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 click

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Gaza: Hands up Who Isn’t in Hamas

Gaza: Hands up Who Isn’t in Hamas

Is there anyone in Gaza who isn’t a member of Hamas? So far on the Hamas payroll have been UN workers, medicos, ambulance drivers, photojournalists, Palestinian day workers, not to mention its (voluntary or otherwise) army of “martyrs”, as well as sundry head-choppers, rapists, baby-killers and rocket-launchers. So much

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Media Are Not Doing Their Jobs

Media Are Not Doing Their Jobs

Allon Lee Australian Jewish News aijac.org.au Allon Lee is a senior policy analyst with the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council Fewer things are more exasperating than the media ignoring basic facts and context. Scandals plaguing UNRWA, the main agency for Palestinian refugees and their millions of descendants,

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