This piece critiques the media's handling of allegations against Labour leader Chris Hipkins, arguing that the coverage was overly deferential, downplayed the substance of claims, and failed to uphold journalistic accountability, particularly regarding gendered power dynamics and
How the framings classify across 5 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. 2 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.
Well, you know, it seems a lot, doesn't it, about um how to avoid answering questions. It was a media training type session, and uh for Aisha Beryl to sing in the way she did. I mean, a lot of people would have a good laugh, but uh I really don't want to hear it again.
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public scrutiny of journalist conduct and bias
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#BHN Epstein Files disaster for Trump | Labour want PM office investigated | Everlee Wihongi updateSocial-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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