A roadside incident where motorists were allegedly threatened has led to police laying charges, highlighting concerns about aggressive conduct on roads and the need for public awareness and reporting.
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. 27 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.
I'll tell you what I have noticed though, heather. The last time I was there, which was on Sunday walking down the street, there were police a lot of police on the street and they're up talking to the people that are lying on the streets. Some of them were hurling abuse at me not long before the police came. There was a guy the other day standing across. I was pushing my baby in the pram. And this guy was uh uh he was obviously drugged out on something, and he is screaming the most profane obscenities at me as though I'd done something wrong to him. It must have been the way I looked at him, and I thought, block your ears, baby. I don't you to hear this. Uh and off he went down to some side street, no doubt got a fix on drugs again and came back and abused somebody else.
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.
citizen reports reflect deep frustration with street harassment
Barry Soper: Newstalk ZB senior political correspondent on National coming under 30 percent support in new pollSocial-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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