:00:00. > :00:00.rights. That is all from me. We will be back
:00:00. > :00:13.at 10pm with a round-up of the news. First it is time for Newswatch.
:00:14. > :00:24.Hello and welcome to Newswatch. Coming up: A clash with Andrea
:00:25. > :00:29.Leadsom on Newsnight. Are the BBC presenter is guilty of being too
:00:30. > :00:40.negative and interrupting ridley? Is this government minister being given
:00:41. > :00:44.too harder time on BBC News? As the aftermath of the West London fire
:00:45. > :00:51.continues to dominate the news, it has been a difficult week for the
:00:52. > :00:56.housing minister. He was on Victoria Derbyshire when he was faced with
:00:57. > :01:10.residents from the Grenfell Tower. I want permanent accommodation. Do not
:01:11. > :01:16.give me temporary accommodation. I work hard and I had a good house. Do
:01:17. > :01:32.not give me temporary accommodation, I will not excepted. What we will
:01:33. > :01:36.come to, I promised... Some viewers felt that Victoria
:01:37. > :02:02.Derbyshire lost control. One fewer send this e-mail:
:02:03. > :02:09.we mentioned last week another BBC item about the fire at Grenfell
:02:10. > :02:17.Tower that some viewers complained about. An interview with the Prime
:02:18. > :02:23.Minister. The Newsnight presenter has done a number of interviews, and
:02:24. > :02:29.she recently interviewed Andrea Leadsom. It was a year since Britain
:02:30. > :02:33.voted to leave the European Union and the preparations for Brexit were
:02:34. > :02:37.under discussion. You have a negotiating position that is
:02:38. > :02:42.unclear, you are hearing that from the president of the EU Parliament,
:02:43. > :02:46.we have to call system that is unstable, the economy is unfair,
:02:47. > :02:53.living standards are following. What is going well? European politicians
:02:54. > :02:58.are very keen that we keep a strong relationship going forward and that
:02:59. > :03:02.is what we are going to do. It is the elected politicians who are
:03:03. > :03:08.important here. You do not even have a deal with the DUP on the table.
:03:09. > :03:20.They are laughing at us. That is not true. Angela Merkel said it was a
:03:21. > :03:24.good start. Various different EU politicians, the elected ones,
:03:25. > :03:33.saying it is a good start. It has been a year. If broadcasters were
:03:34. > :03:41.willing to be a bit patriotic, the country took a decision and this
:03:42. > :03:44.government... Are you accusing me of being unpatriotic for questioning
:03:45. > :03:51.how negotiations are going and whether you have a position of
:03:52. > :03:56.strength? Andrea Leadsom denied calling her on patriotic that some
:03:57. > :03:57.viewers that the general point being made by the former Conservative
:03:58. > :04:48.leadership candidate was there. Another viewer recorded this video
:04:49. > :04:54.for us with his thoughts. Please, BBC, can you rain in your presenter.
:04:55. > :05:04.She needs to learn how to hold a civil conversation. Most of her
:05:05. > :05:08.subjects are subjected to higher insulting interjections. I do not
:05:09. > :05:12.like politicians but I have to commend them for holding the
:05:13. > :05:17.temperature during one of her interviews. She interrupts so much
:05:18. > :05:22.that no one ever gets there and to write. That does not allow the
:05:23. > :05:27.viewers to make a judgment of what they are trying to say. The
:05:28. > :05:33.interview is therefore pointless. The editor of Newsnight is here with
:05:34. > :05:43.us. The reference that Andrea Leadsom made two patches -- made to
:05:44. > :05:48.patch it is is that some people say they coverage has been negative. I
:05:49. > :05:51.thought it was an excellent interview. I'm sure some viewers
:05:52. > :05:56.would agree with these complaints that the majority of people who saw
:05:57. > :06:02.it will think that calling an interviewer unpatriotic when the 's
:06:03. > :06:06.awkward questions is somewhere between hilarious and sinister. It
:06:07. > :06:13.happens in Moscow and Beijing but not really in a place with a free
:06:14. > :06:18.media. Andrea Leadsom went on to say that she was not calling her
:06:19. > :06:24.unpatriotic. You only have to watch it. The viewers that you have
:06:25. > :06:30.reported the complaints off would make the point that it was fair to
:06:31. > :06:35.call Emily unpatriotic. Newsnight is good at turning around these
:06:36. > :06:39.interviews as a social media clip to go viral, watching it back on the
:06:40. > :06:45.whole, do you not see why many viewers felt it was heavy-handed? If
:06:46. > :06:52.you are making a point about partial extracts from an interview and how
:06:53. > :06:58.some of those can gain circulation outside the context of an interview,
:06:59. > :07:02.that is an interesting one and one we need to think about because
:07:03. > :07:06.sometimes you will have a minute long fragment from an interview they
:07:07. > :07:15.get seen by many people outside the context of the interview. This was a
:07:16. > :07:20.classic accountability interview. It is on a momentous issue. It is about
:07:21. > :07:26.the future shape and relationship of the country on the continent and it
:07:27. > :07:32.is right that she conducted a tough accountability interview. We
:07:33. > :07:38.understand that people need to be brought back to and so the question,
:07:39. > :07:42.but there was a lot of interrupting there. One viewer said it was
:07:43. > :07:47.frustrating not being able to hear Andrea Leadsom finish her and
:07:48. > :07:53.service. Interrupting is a berry fine line. I have sympathy with the
:07:54. > :08:00.viewers that feel that sometimes we enter up to much. We're all subjects
:08:01. > :08:10.if fairness of allowing them to set out their case. There are lots of
:08:11. > :08:13.interviewees who come into an interview with the aim of
:08:14. > :08:18.filibustering their way through it and sticking to two or three
:08:19. > :08:25.homilies. In this case it was supposed to be a 15 minute interview
:08:26. > :08:32.to do with when she was able to start it, but ended up only being
:08:33. > :08:38.7-8 minutes. The interviewer is under pressure to keep the interview
:08:39. > :08:43.moving along and to address all the questions they are trying to address
:08:44. > :08:46.in the interview. There were complaints about another interviewee
:08:47. > :08:53.Emily did with the Prime Minister. Here is a clip. We are yet to find
:08:54. > :08:58.out what the costs of the fire was. You could have stopped it spreading
:08:59. > :09:02.by spending ?2 more on the cladding. The Fire Service are looking at what
:09:03. > :09:08.the cause of the fire was and it is important we find out what happened.
:09:09. > :09:14.You were sent information about this and 2013. The coroner said that you
:09:15. > :09:20.could stop but the sprinkler system. She seemed to be pitting blame on
:09:21. > :09:29.Theresa May, in terms of using the word you, that was seen as unfair.
:09:30. > :09:35.The figure of speech was, you could do this, like one could do this...
:09:36. > :09:42.You could have spent... It is the same way as you say, you can get
:09:43. > :09:49.up... Some of that focused anger should be directed at the right
:09:50. > :09:55.people. The Prime Minister is the leader of the Conservative Party, it
:09:56. > :09:57.is a conservative borough, there are responsibilities that they have is
:09:58. > :10:05.the leader of the party that runs the council. In that particular
:10:06. > :10:13.case, don't think the Emily that she personally close the cladding...
:10:14. > :10:18.What you think she said is not what viewers think they got out of it.
:10:19. > :10:24.Some viewers construed it differently but I do not think they
:10:25. > :10:28.are the majority. Town is very important in many viewers said it
:10:29. > :10:38.came across as angry and emotional. Should they not remain calm and
:10:39. > :10:44.measured? It often is. One of the responsibilities is to channel the
:10:45. > :10:51.questions that the viewers would want Aston a particular situation.
:10:52. > :10:57.On Friday, Emily brilliantly channelled the questions and the
:10:58. > :11:08.mood around the handling of the aftermath of that disaster. There
:11:09. > :11:11.were two very good interviews there. There was plenty of coverage across
:11:12. > :11:16.the BBC last weekend of the Glastonbury Festival and it made it
:11:17. > :11:21.onto BBC News, courtesy of an appearance by Jeremy Corbyn. Read 14
:11:22. > :11:24.minutes of the speech given by the Labour and was covered live on the
:11:25. > :11:42.news channel, wanting one viewer to comment : thank you for all your
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:12:06. > :12:07.back to hear your thoughts about BBC coverage again next week.