The death of New Zealand-born actor Sir Sam Neill, best known internationally for the Jurassic Park franchise, including public tributes, confirmation of his cause of death as pneumonia, and mourning of his legacy as a Central Otago community figure and cultural icon.
How the framings classify across 3 articles. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.
Up to 12 framings across outlets and orientations — each a short phrase the extractor generated to characterise the piece's editorial angle (not a quote). Filter by lean to see how each bloc is spinning the story; click through to read the original.
settler identity rooted in colonial symbolism
What defines a ‘Kiwi’ – and who is allowed to bear the name?tragedy of environmental activism
MEDIAWATCH: Sean Plunket fanned the Shane Jones attack on Sam Neill but is criticising ME for not weeping over a war monger?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. 26 articles from RNZ, Stuff, NZ Herald, ODT, 1News, Newsroom and The Spinoff. Click through to the press view for the full panel.
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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