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Why Are the Media Such Hamas Fangirls? [Updated]
Can we stop even pretending that the mainstream media are anything but deranged cheerleaders for the worst people on the planet? That much is clear from the Australian journalists’ union’s open letter calling to reject “bothsidesism” on Gaza. Meaning, in other words, that journalists only regard one side of
The BFD Stuff Up of the Day
Hey Stuff – in case you hadn’t noticed, trains don’t run to Auckland Airport. So why use a video of a train to suggest (incorrectly BTW) that public transport is the cheapest way to get there? If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons
Is the MSM Refusing to Publish Your Opinion Pieces?
Today, RNZ and both TV news channels lean well to the left, NZME and Stuff have both been captured by a radical interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, and the Otago Daily Times won’t touch a cartoonist like Garrick Tremain. Don Brash Conservative views are less and less welcome
Winston Peters Giving Media the Old ‘Treat Em Mean Keep Em Keen’ Treatment
Alex Hickey whakatakitimes.nz STRINGING THEM ALONG Winston Peters has revealed he’s applying lessons learnt as a teenage lothario in his latest dealings with the media. New Zealand’s new Deputy Prime Minister has wasted no time in taking aim at the media just days into the job, accusing
View from Your Window
**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this View from Your Window? This photo is after they built it back better. An appropriate placing of a Green Party billboard outside an abandoned house on
Winston Peters Has a Point
Ananish Chaudhuri Ananish Chaudhuri, PhD. Professor of Experimental Economics | University of Auckland ananishchaudhuri.com bassettbrashandhide.com Winston Peters has suggested that mainstream media were “bribed” by the previous Labour government. Members of the media are outraged. Peters, true to form, is being provocative. I don’t think Peters’ strident tone
The BFD Daily Opinion Poll
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Boom Times and Enduring Prosperity
Go back a century and visualise a nation. Until 1890 (at the earliest) the nation was seen as quite backward; little more than a pioneering frontier backwater, well behind the times compared with much of the rest of the world but things changed rather rapidly and it quickly became very
Winston Peters Sets a Change Agenda
Geoffrey Miller Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s geopolitical analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a learner of Arabic and Russian. He is currently working on a PhD at the University
How to Gift Someone a BFD Membership This Christmas
We have GREAT news. For many years readers have asked us for the ability to give a BFD membership as a present but we didn’t have the technology to do it. This Christmas we finally have what you have all been asking for. Gifting Our new system allows us
Who Will Own the Coastline?
In 2009 the John Key National-led Government stripped away Crown ownership of the coastline to make it easier for Maori to make claims. The tribal ownership of New Zealand by 2040, indicated in the He Puapua document, was a concerning issue leading into the election. The economy, education, crime,
What Sir Ian Should Be Worried About
The press pile on against the new Government goes on and on, literally and figuratively, and on. One of Saturday’s efforts was a long op-ed from Sir Ian Taylor expressing his buyer’s regret having voted blue for just the third time in his 70+ years. Sir Ian
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