A commentary piece argues that Maiki Sherman, TVNZ’s political editor, must resign due to allegations of using a homophobic slur and the subsequent political leverage gained by the government, framing the issue as a breach of media ethics and a threat to journalistic independence
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.
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.
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.
disgusting and effective right wing troll activity
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MEDIAWATCH: You would crucify Maiki Sherman in this manner of you wanted to privatise TVNZSocial-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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