The podcast discusses the decision to shut down the Broadcasting Standards Authority, framing it as a response to the rise of digital media and the declining relevance of slow, institutional oversight in an age of rapid content consumption.
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. 1 article 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.
I'm sure there will be plenty, but not huge. I mean, there were 90 complaints, according to the annual report last year. So we're not talking about huge numbers. And the point is that there's got the media council, which will be there to uphold journalistic standards if people want to do it. But ultimately, the biggest thing is media are vying for attention with other things such as TikTok and Facebook. The primary value is that they can demonstrate that they've found independent journalism adding some value. That's what's going to survive in modern business, not some process that takes a long time through an independent BSA, I think. If you're wanting to...
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.
criticised for inconsistent standards
Watchdog without a leash: How Queenstown’s Crux Media became a ‘one-man crusade’Social-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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