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Tvnz Reporter Conduct

17 items · 11 aliases · peaked week of 26 Apr 2026 · first seen 30 Apr 2026

TVNZ reporters face potential temporary bans from Parliament after allegations of inappropriate conduct, including aggressive door-banging during an interview attempt, prompting a formal review by Speaker Gerry Brownlee and renewed scrutiny over a claimed slur.

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

Alias drift

How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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In the press Methodology →

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.

12-week press volume 5 articles
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Heard on radio

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.

  • It's, yeah, it's... I think it's one of those things that the analysis and the debate about it, like, we cannot have that now in an election year. It's too nitpicky. It's just going to go over people's head. So you get what you see on national social media channels of like, look at us, we've done two free trade agreements, one with the UAE and one with India. Fucking victory lap. And of course, there's no details there. Now, the UAE deal with the majority of that was done by Labour and National were just holding the pen at the end. And I think, you know, charitable to a lesser degree, that's true of the Indian free trade agreement as well. But the interesting thing is, look at those posts on Facebook. When they're talking about the Indian free trade deal, which they're doing a lot, there's I think six or seven posts that have come out of them specifically mentioning the free trade deal from India. Look at the comment section.
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Sample framings

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kiwiblog Right

outlets face scrutiny over factual error

BSA found TVNZ misrepresented Trump
21 May
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How the public reacted

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