This piece examines a scandal involving offensive language exchanges between political journalists at a ministerial drinks event, the subsequent silence in media coverage, and allegations of state broadcaster legal intervention to suppress reporting — raising concerns about media
How the framings classify across 3 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.
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.
So he's washed you washed his hands of her. He's not even across being questioned in the media about it. I think you're 100% right. It sounds like he's talking about a tourist. Yeah, yeah.
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.
systemic, chilling, and unethical
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