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much indeed. Over 800 households being evacuated from Camden, that | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
just being announced in the last hour. More on that on the ten | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
o'clock news, but now it is time for Newswatch. | :00:08. | :00:13. | |
Hello and welcome to Newswatch. Many questions remain | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
after the Grenfell Tower fire, but some viewers questioned | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
whether BBC news coverage served to incite anger amongst residents. | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
You could stop it spreading by spending ?2 more... | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
The interview Emily Maitlis conducted with Theresa May last | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
Friday seemed to unfairly lay all blame for the fire personally | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
How Huw Edwards occupied himself for the first four minutes | :00:38. | :00:47. | |
In the very early hours of Monday morning, the sound of multiple | :00:48. | :00:57. | |
police sirens was heard again on the streets of London. | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
And the BBC's overnight news service reported the facts, | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
We start with breaking news this hour. | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
A number of people have been injured in North London after a vehicle | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
The Muslim Council of Britain has said that worshippers were hit | :01:13. | :01:18. | |
by a van as they left prayers at the Finsbury Park mosque. | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
One eyewitness has told the BBC that at least three people | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
Some hours later, it emerged that one man, Makram Ali, | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
died in the attack and that another, Darren Osborne, had been arrested | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
on suspicion of attempted murder and terror offences. | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
Before that, though, a number of viewers objected | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
to the way the incident had initially been | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
One of them rang Newswatch with his thoughts. | :01:41. | :01:48. | |
I am calling about your recent coverage of the | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
I just don't understand why the mainstream media right now | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
is not calling this out as a terrorist attack. | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
At the moment, which is very disappointing. | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
Considering that, if it was a Muslim, you would be | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
very quick to point out that it is a terrorist attack. | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
But for a white guy or anyone else who's running people | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
over, for some reason, you have a different way | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
Well, we put that view to BBC News and they told us... | :02:16. | :02:41. | |
Last Friday afternoon, the distress and anger which had | :02:42. | :02:43. | |
been building up in the wake of the Grenfell Tower | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
Here is Jeremy Cooke reporting on that night's News at Six. | :02:47. | :02:56. | |
A crowd storms Kensington Town Hall demanding action. | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
How could this tragedy have happened, on this scale? | :02:59. | :03:18. | |
That evening and through the weekend, BBC reporters heard | :03:19. | :03:29. | |
many appeals and complaints of that kind from residents of the estate | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
I just want to know how many people have died. | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
Why are people being rehoused outside London? | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
These are fundamental questions and only, we are days | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
It is always the public that runs to rescue. | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
Those questions were heard many times on camera | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
And others were put to the Prime Minister on Friday. | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
That was in an interview by Emily Maitlis of Newsnight. | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
There were two types of material that could have been used | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
used in the cladding - one was flammable | :04:19. | :04:20. | |
and one was fireproof, and the fireproof one cost ?2 more. | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
We have yet to find out what the cause of the fire was. | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
You could have stopped it spreading by spending ?2 | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
The Fire Service are looking at what the cause of the fire was. | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
And it is important that we get to the bottom of this, that we find | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
But you were recommended this, in 2013. | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
You were in government, then, and the coroner said you could have | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
stopped this with a sprinkler system in every block. | :04:47. | :04:48. | |
And the government has taken action on the recommendations | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
Lots of reaction from Newswatch viewers to that interview. | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
Typical was Ian Whitehouse, who recorded his thoughts | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
We all have the utmost sympathy and sadness | :04:58. | :05:06. | |
However, nothing can justify the appalling | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
viciousness of the haranguing of the Prime Minister | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
It was more like a kangaroo court diatribe, based on assumptions | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
of responsibility and guilt which hadn't yet | :05:20. | :05:28. | |
even been discussed, let alone proven. | :05:29. | :05:29. | |
Other viewers contacted us with their concerns about reporting | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
And the allegations and emotions expressed by residents. | :05:32. | :05:44. | |
Here are the views of David Shute and Alan Cummings. | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
The BBC was on the spot for immediate eyewitness accounts, | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
in competition with rivals which reached fever pitch, recently. | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
And because of that their obligations for broadcasting | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
accurately and with accountability is being compromised. | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
They have proved, in the event, to being totally inaccurate, | :05:58. | :06:02. | |
highly emotive and often personally influenced accounts broadcast | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
I think that in the recent Grenfell Tower tragedy we saw | :06:05. | :06:14. | |
reporting which was actually starting to incite violence, | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
incite further trouble, which is not what reporting is about. | :06:18. | :06:25. | |
Another viewer who got in touch on the subject was Jon Brookes, | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
and he joins us now from our Ipswich studio. | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
Jon, there were lots of concerns about coverage | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
Last week a number of viewers commented on it being used | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
as a backdrop to news bulletins when it was still burning. | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
There was no real need to have somebody on the scene standing | :06:42. | :06:56. | |
It seemed as though you were dwelling on... | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
In a way, it was a type of hysteria, because in the end it wound a lot | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
of people up to make protests when they might | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
The BBC need to realise that perhaps they were part of the megaphones | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
talk by a lot of people, including politicians, | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
who incited those people to behave like that. | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
In filling the air time in the days after the disaster, | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
did you have views about people discussing what might have | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
Normally, when this happens anywhere, in any factory, | :07:27. | :07:35. | |
the health and safety people come in, the police | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
and the inspectorates, and they decide what's caused it. | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
But the speculation on there was massive. | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
It may well be, that it was the panels, it | :07:44. | :07:50. | |
seems to be the case, but speculation without | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
One of the other issue you wanted to raise and some other viewers did, | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
was about interviews with the Prime Minister | :08:01. | :08:02. | |
and the way she was treated in relation to the fire. | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
Mrs May, I'm not one of her supporters, but | :08:10. | :08:18. | |
how could she be held responsible or blamed for what's happened there? | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
Now we know that those panels are in place all over the UK | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
and that is down to planning people making sure that they are | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
She can't be responsible for that, and yet, some people | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
You think the BBC was doing interviews in an irresponsible way? | :08:31. | :08:37. | |
I don't think you helped matters by allowing those people to say | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
what they were saying, particularly outside when they were | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
Well, as you know, we did want to talk to someone from the BBC | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
And they have given us this statement. | :08:49. | :09:23. | |
Any thoughts in response to that statement, | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
particularly when they talked about accountability in interviews? | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
Yes, how can you judge accountability when you have no | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
facts to back up the claims that it was the cladding? | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
I've never heard a producer admit he is wrong about anything. | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
They can waffle all they like but, in this case, | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
To accentuate it to the degree that they did. | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
After all, there was no need to have them there every day | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
And I just think that people who had relatives in there, | :09:53. | :10:02. | |
how do you think they must have felt? | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
Finally it has been an extremely busy news period, | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
most of it very bad, so it is understandable | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
if some of the audience, perhaps even some of the journalists | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
wanted it all to occasionally just calm down and stop. | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
On Tuesday night it did just that as those watching the ten o'clock | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
evening bulletin on News Channel were treated to this... | :10:21. | :10:45. | |
There followed four minutes of Huw Edwards waiting patiently, | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
checking over his script and taking notes, all interspersed with some | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
Viewers on BBC One only had a bit of that before the presentation | :10:54. | :11:02. | |
announcer took over with a holding message and some music. | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
Apparently the BBC News technical system crashed seconds before ten | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
o'clock and although Huw Edwards wasn't told he was on air | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
for a couple of minutes, having heard pandemonium | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
in the background, he thought he would take the conservative | :11:17. | :11:23. | |
approach and just sit there, quietly. | :11:24. | :11:24. | |
The glitch prompted a flurry of reaction on Twitter. | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
Thank you for all your comments this week. | :11:31. | :11:41. | |
Please send us your thoughts on BBC News and current affairs. | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
And you can catch up on a programme any time you have missed it. We were | :11:45. | :12:08. | |
back to hear your thoughts about BBC news coverage this time next week. | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
Goodbye. | :12:12. | :12:16. |