The New Zealand government has announced the scrapping of the Broadcasting Standards Authority, citing a lack of relevance in the current media landscape and proposing self-regulation as an alternative.
How the framings classify across 11 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. 5 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.
Now let's talk about the BSA because the Broadcasting Standards Authority has decided it is now in charge of the internet, which means that it can now consider that complaint against Sean Plunkett's show on the... Oh, and the platform, Winston Peters is not happy.
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.
lacking transparency and democratic accountability
Democracy Briefing: The BSA is dead. Now what?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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