A critique of the practice of cancelling journalists for controversial statements, warning that it risks creating a culture of unchecked accountability that undermines free speech and media independence.
How the framings classify across 6 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.
How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.
How the news corpus has covered this same topic over the last 12 weeks. 6 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
Verbatim segments from politicians speaking on podcasts and radio shows about this topic. Sourced via the voice-reference library — each speaker has been confirmed manually from their voice clip. Click play to stream the original audio from the publisher, pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts.
It's 208 days until Kiwis hit the polls and vote for the next government. And despite campaigning not officially starting, the Prime Minister's performance has been called into question time and time again. Accusations range from Luxon leaning too much into the corporate speak and acting like a CEO to dodging questions and even dodging entire press conferences during a global... fuel crisis to open a stadium. With flubbed media interviews going viral, Chris Luxon's behaviour is being put under a microscope, so much so that there are whisperings of a potential coup. Can one man's public image impact an entire party? And who's been sent in to help National months ahead of election day? Today on the front page, NZ Herald editor at large... And media insider Shane Currie is with us to break down Luxon's trials and tribulations and how he might turn them all around.
Up to 12 framings spread across orientations. Each framing is a short phrase the topic extractor generated to characterise the piece's stance — not a quote from the source. Click through to read the original.
a moral tension between expression and accountability
Democracy Briefing: Maiki Sherman and the media that ate itselfSocial-media signal on the same topic, drawn from the social lens. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies, the same weighting used across the digest cards. View on /social →
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