Failed editor, hard-left writer, and cycling aficionado Simon Wilson tweeted a Rod Emmerson cartoon from the NZ Herald:

Oh we all laughed and chortled with Simon Wilson…until one of our moderators spat in Wilson’s coffee with some facts:

It is as clear cut a case of plagiarism as you’ll ever find.

No doubt the NZ Herald and Rod Emmerson will simply ignore it. But it is yet another case of The BFD and our contributors getting to ideas and news ahead of the moribund and intellectually deficient mainstream media.

Little wonder trust in media organisations like the NZ Herald is plummeting.

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As much at home writing editorials as being the subject of them, Cam has won awards, including the Canon Media Award for his work on the Len Brown/Bevan Chuang story. When he’s not creating the news,...