23/06/2017 Newswatch


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much indeed. Over 800 households being evacuated from Camden, that

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just being announced in the last hour. More on that on the ten

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o'clock news, but now it is time for Newswatch.

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Hello and welcome to Newswatch. Many questions remain

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after the Grenfell Tower fire, but some viewers questioned

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whether BBC news coverage served to incite anger amongst residents.

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You could stop it spreading by spending ?2 more...

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The interview Emily Maitlis conducted with Theresa May last

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Friday seemed to unfairly lay all blame for the fire personally

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How Huw Edwards occupied himself for the first four minutes

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In the very early hours of Monday morning, the sound of multiple

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police sirens was heard again on the streets of London.

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And the BBC's overnight news service reported the facts,

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We start with breaking news this hour.

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A number of people have been injured in North London after a vehicle

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The Muslim Council of Britain has said that worshippers were hit

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by a van as they left prayers at the Finsbury Park mosque.

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One eyewitness has told the BBC that at least three people

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Some hours later, it emerged that one man, Makram Ali,

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died in the attack and that another, Darren Osborne, had been arrested

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on suspicion of attempted murder and terror offences.

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Before that, though, a number of viewers objected

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to the way the incident had initially been

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One of them rang Newswatch with his thoughts.

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I am calling about your recent coverage of the

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I just don't understand why the mainstream media right now

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is not calling this out as a terrorist attack.

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At the moment, which is very disappointing.

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Considering that, if it was a Muslim, you would be

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very quick to point out that it is a terrorist attack.

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But for a white guy or anyone else who's running people

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over, for some reason, you have a different way

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Well, we put that view to BBC News and they told us...

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Last Friday afternoon, the distress and anger which had

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been building up in the wake of the Grenfell Tower

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Here is Jeremy Cooke reporting on that night's News at Six.

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A crowd storms Kensington Town Hall demanding action.

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How could this tragedy have happened, on this scale?

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That evening and through the weekend, BBC reporters heard

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many appeals and complaints of that kind from residents of the estate

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I just want to know how many people have died.

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Why are people being rehoused outside London?

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These are fundamental questions and only, we are days

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It is always the public that runs to rescue.

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Those questions were heard many times on camera

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And others were put to the Prime Minister on Friday.

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That was in an interview by Emily Maitlis of Newsnight.

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There were two types of material that could have been used

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used in the cladding - one was flammable

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and one was fireproof, and the fireproof one cost ?2 more.

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We have yet to find out what the cause of the fire was.

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You could have stopped it spreading by spending ?2

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The Fire Service are looking at what the cause of the fire was.

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And it is important that we get to the bottom of this, that we find

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But you were recommended this, in 2013.

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You were in government, then, and the coroner said you could have

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stopped this with a sprinkler system in every block.

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And the government has taken action on the recommendations

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Lots of reaction from Newswatch viewers to that interview.

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Typical was Ian Whitehouse, who recorded his thoughts

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We all have the utmost sympathy and sadness

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However, nothing can justify the appalling

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viciousness of the haranguing of the Prime Minister

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It was more like a kangaroo court diatribe, based on assumptions

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of responsibility and guilt which hadn't yet

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even been discussed, let alone proven.

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Other viewers contacted us with their concerns about reporting

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And the allegations and emotions expressed by residents.

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Here are the views of David Shute and Alan Cummings.

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The BBC was on the spot for immediate eyewitness accounts,

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in competition with rivals which reached fever pitch, recently.

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And because of that their obligations for broadcasting

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accurately and with accountability is being compromised.

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They have proved, in the event, to being totally inaccurate,

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highly emotive and often personally influenced accounts broadcast

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I think that in the recent Grenfell Tower tragedy we saw

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reporting which was actually starting to incite violence,

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incite further trouble, which is not what reporting is about.

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Another viewer who got in touch on the subject was Jon Brookes,

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and he joins us now from our Ipswich studio.

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Jon, there were lots of concerns about coverage

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Last week a number of viewers commented on it being used

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as a backdrop to news bulletins when it was still burning.

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There was no real need to have somebody on the scene standing

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It seemed as though you were dwelling on...

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In a way, it was a type of hysteria, because in the end it wound a lot

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of people up to make protests when they might

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The BBC need to realise that perhaps they were part of the megaphones

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talk by a lot of people, including politicians,

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who incited those people to behave like that.

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In filling the air time in the days after the disaster,

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did you have views about people discussing what might have

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Normally, when this happens anywhere, in any factory,

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the health and safety people come in, the police

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and the inspectorates, and they decide what's caused it.

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But the speculation on there was massive.

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It may well be, that it was the panels, it

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seems to be the case, but speculation without

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One of the other issue you wanted to raise and some other viewers did,

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was about interviews with the Prime Minister

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and the way she was treated in relation to the fire.

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Mrs May, I'm not one of her supporters, but

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how could she be held responsible or blamed for what's happened there?

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Now we know that those panels are in place all over the UK

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and that is down to planning people making sure that they are

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She can't be responsible for that, and yet, some people

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You think the BBC was doing interviews in an irresponsible way?

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I don't think you helped matters by allowing those people to say

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what they were saying, particularly outside when they were

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Well, as you know, we did want to talk to someone from the BBC

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And they have given us this statement.

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Any thoughts in response to that statement,

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particularly when they talked about accountability in interviews?

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Yes, how can you judge accountability when you have no

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facts to back up the claims that it was the cladding?

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I've never heard a producer admit he is wrong about anything.

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They can waffle all they like but, in this case,

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To accentuate it to the degree that they did.

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After all, there was no need to have them there every day

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And I just think that people who had relatives in there,

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how do you think they must have felt?

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Finally it has been an extremely busy news period,

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most of it very bad, so it is understandable

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if some of the audience, perhaps even some of the journalists

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wanted it all to occasionally just calm down and stop.

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On Tuesday night it did just that as those watching the ten o'clock

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evening bulletin on News Channel were treated to this...

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There followed four minutes of Huw Edwards waiting patiently,

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checking over his script and taking notes, all interspersed with some

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Viewers on BBC One only had a bit of that before the presentation

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announcer took over with a holding message and some music.

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Apparently the BBC News technical system crashed seconds before ten

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o'clock and although Huw Edwards wasn't told he was on air

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for a couple of minutes, having heard pandemonium

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in the background, he thought he would take the conservative

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approach and just sit there, quietly.

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The glitch prompted a flurry of reaction on Twitter.

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Thank you for all your comments this week.

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Please send us your thoughts on BBC News and current affairs.

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And you can catch up on a programme any time you have missed it. We were

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back to hear your thoughts about BBC news coverage this time next week.

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Goodbye.

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