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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

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How Sincere Were Murdoch’s Ideological Beliefs Really?

How Sincere Were Murdoch’s Ideological Beliefs Really?

Bruce Drushel Miami University theconversation.com When businesspeople retire at an advanced age, it seldom makes headlines. But when 92-year-old Rupert Murdoch announced in September that he was stepping away from his multicontinent media empire and turning it over to his son Lachlan, it was breaking news that generated countless

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Trying to Avoid the Facts

Trying to Avoid the Facts

A crisis brings out the best and the worst in us, and Christopher-Get-Boosted-Bishop is an excellent example: he was completely wrong about Covid vaccinations and boosters but is spot on about Hamas being a terrorist organisation. So why did Get-Boosted’s leader get Hamas so wrong? Luxon was asked about

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Kiwis Stop This Nonsense

Kiwis Stop This Nonsense

So what went wrong? I guess it all started back in the 1980s, with the Lange Government, which introduced the settlements, creating a culture of grievance. Helped along in 1995 by Doug Graham of National whose abysmal negotiating skill and lacking any foresight to this nonsense set the agenda for

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

They didn’t hit the brakes on this spelling error. 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

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

I know in the modern game, rugby players have to be able to cover more than one position, but I’ve never heard of a 130kg tight-head prop being selected as a blindside flanker! If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top

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Is Govt Owned Media a Good Thing?

Is Govt Owned Media a Good Thing?

Without the necessary analysis of government ownership of media, the answer is probably ‘yes and no’. There are pros and cons. How they play out very much depends on the guidelines put in place by the government of the day. Other questions come into play. Should there be a level

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Top Stories From the UK and Israeli Media

BICOM BICOM provides accurate, timely and balanced information that is read by officials, experts, journalists and many others. The Economist publishes on the choices Israel has to make, saying “The first war aim is to destroy Hamas. Over the past three weeks that has come to mean eradicating the group’

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The wannabe ranger must have been very annoyed with the people walking their pets (calling them fur babies makes me want to vomit, but hey-ho) to throw boiling water over them. He could’ve just given them a good telling-off… If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

They misspelled Rachin Ravindra’s surname, and got “fencing” and “fending” mixed up 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

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How Far Have We Fallen?

How Far Have We Fallen?

I came to New Zealand in the 1980s, and it was a very decent place to live back then. At a time when Britain was starting to deal with race riots due to immigration, New Zealand was a broad contrast. The people were great, the culture was familiar and, above

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Why the Media Are Hurting

Why the Media Are Hurting

Karl du Fresne Karl du Fresne, journalist and former Dominion editor blogs here bassettbrashandhide.com I sometimes wonder whether political reporters ever pause to think how precious and entitled their behaviour looks to outsiders. I doubt it. They are too self-absorbed. Right now, members of the parliamentary press gallery are

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Stuff thinks that if we beat Argentina in the semi-finals of the RWC, we’ll make it to the… semi-finals! 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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Washpost Tries to Flip Off Musk

Washpost Tries to Flip Off Musk

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 Liberal reporters really hate how Twitter isn’t a

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We Must Be Responsible

We Must Be Responsible

voicesforfreedom.co.nz Last weekend, many watched a video from NZ go viral globally. The video contains several claims regarding the mRNA injectable and clustered, time-related deaths of New Zealanders. VFF has raised concerns about the safety and efficacy of this product since it began testing in 2020. There is

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