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  • Top topics digest — the cards score the selected period against the prior 4 weeks.
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  • Outlet orientation strip / lean colours — context-only, drawn from the last 12 weeks of activity regardless.
  • Co-occurrence graph — recent-activity anchored, not picker-driven.
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Topic · social

Media Bias In Journalism

797 posts · 60,463 engagement · first seen 15 Aug 2015 · last seen 22 Jul 2026

The perceived or alleged tendency of New Zealand news organisations and journalists to favour particular political parties, ideologies, or narratives in their selection, framing, and reporting of political stories.

Stance breakdown

How the per-edge framings classify across 773 classified edges. Each framing is labelled by a small AI stance classifier; see the methodology page for details.

94%
Supportive 1 Critical 723 Dismissive 6 Neutral / explainer 3 Mocking 40

Sentiment breakdown

Whole-post emotional valence across 774 classified posts that reference this topic. Distinct from stance: a post can be supportive of the topic and still negative in tone (an angry supporter) — the two together capture the texture short-form posts compress into very few words.

90%
Positive 37 Neutral 43 Negative 694

Platform mix

Where the conversation is happening. Engagement is volume-weighted (likes + 2×shares + 3×replies); a small number of high-impact posts can outrank a high-volume but low-engagement platform.

  • facebook
    31 posts · 32,585 engagement
    32,585
  • youtube
    663 posts · 14,771 engagement
    14,771
  • twitter
    53 posts · 5,004 engagement
    5,004
  • reddit
    27 posts · 4,970 engagement
    4,970

Top posts by engagement

The most-engaged posts referencing this topic. Engagement is likes + 2×shares + 3×replies; the order matches the digest ranking on /social.