30/06/2017 Newswatch

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Hello and welcome to Newswatch. Coming up: A clash with Andrea

Leadsom on Newsnight. Are the BBC presenter is guilty of being too

negative and interrupting ridley? Is this government minister being given

too harder time on BBC News? As the aftermath of the West London fire

continues to dominate the news, it has been a difficult week for the

housing minister. He was on Victoria Derbyshire when he was faced with

residents from the Grenfell Tower. I want permanent accommodation. Do not

give me temporary accommodation. I work hard and I had a good house. Do

not give me temporary accommodation, I will not excepted. What we will

come to, I promised... Some viewers felt that Victoria

Derbyshire lost control. One fewer send this e-mail:

we mentioned last week another BBC item about the fire at Grenfell

Tower that some viewers complained about. An interview with the Prime

Minister. The Newsnight presenter has done a number of interviews, and

she recently interviewed Andrea Leadsom. It was a year since Britain

voted to leave the European Union and the preparations for Brexit were

under discussion. You have a negotiating position that is

unclear, you are hearing that from the president of the EU Parliament,

we have to call system that is unstable, the economy is unfair,

living standards are following. What is going well? European politicians

are very keen that we keep a strong relationship going forward and that

is what we are going to do. It is the elected politicians who are

important here. You do not even have a deal with the DUP on the table.

They are laughing at us. That is not true. Angela Merkel said it was a

good start. Various different EU politicians, the elected ones,

saying it is a good start. It has been a year. If broadcasters were

willing to be a bit patriotic, the country took a decision and this

government... Are you accusing me of being unpatriotic for questioning

how negotiations are going and whether you have a position of

strength? Andrea Leadsom denied calling her on patriotic that some

viewers that the general point being made by the former Conservative

leadership candidate was there. Another viewer recorded this video

for us with his thoughts. Please, BBC, can you rain in your presenter.

She needs to learn how to hold a civil conversation. Most of her

subjects are subjected to higher insulting interjections. I do not

like politicians but I have to commend them for holding the

temperature during one of her interviews. She interrupts so much

that no one ever gets there and to write. That does not allow the

viewers to make a judgment of what they are trying to say. The

interview is therefore pointless. The editor of Newsnight is here with

us. The reference that Andrea Leadsom made two patches -- made to

patch it is is that some people say they coverage has been negative. I

thought it was an excellent interview. I'm sure some viewers

would agree with these complaints that the majority of people who saw

it will think that calling an interviewer unpatriotic when the 's

awkward questions is somewhere between hilarious and sinister. It

happens in Moscow and Beijing but not really in a place with a free

media. Andrea Leadsom went on to say that she was not calling her

unpatriotic. You only have to watch it. The viewers that you have

reported the complaints off would make the point that it was fair to

call Emily unpatriotic. Newsnight is good at turning around these

interviews as a social media clip to go viral, watching it back on the

whole, do you not see why many viewers felt it was heavy-handed? If

you are making a point about partial extracts from an interview and how

some of those can gain circulation outside the context of an interview,

that is an interesting one and one we need to think about because

sometimes you will have a minute long fragment from an interview they

get seen by many people outside the context of the interview. This was a

classic accountability interview. It is on a momentous issue. It is about

the future shape and relationship of the country on the continent and it

is right that she conducted a tough accountability interview. We

understand that people need to be brought back to and so the question,

but there was a lot of interrupting there. One viewer said it was

frustrating not being able to hear Andrea Leadsom finish her and

service. Interrupting is a berry fine line. I have sympathy with the

viewers that feel that sometimes we enter up to much. We're all subjects

if fairness of allowing them to set out their case. There are lots of

interviewees who come into an interview with the aim of

filibustering their way through it and sticking to two or three

homilies. In this case it was supposed to be a 15 minute interview

to do with when she was able to start it, but ended up only being

7-8 minutes. The interviewer is under pressure to keep the interview

moving along and to address all the questions they are trying to address

in the interview. There were complaints about another interviewee

Emily did with the Prime Minister. Here is a clip. We are yet to find

out what the costs of the fire was. You could have stopped it spreading

by spending ?2 more on the cladding. The Fire Service are looking at what

the cause of the fire was and it is important we find out what happened.

You were sent information about this and 2013. The coroner said that you

could stop but the sprinkler system. She seemed to be pitting blame on

Theresa May, in terms of using the word you, that was seen as unfair.

The figure of speech was, you could do this, like one could do this...

You could have spent... It is the same way as you say, you can get

up... Some of that focused anger should be directed at the right

people. The Prime Minister is the leader of the Conservative Party, it

is a conservative borough, there are responsibilities that they have is

the leader of the party that runs the council. In that particular

case, don't think the Emily that she personally close the cladding...

What you think she said is not what viewers think they got out of it.

Some viewers construed it differently but I do not think they

are the majority. Town is very important in many viewers said it

came across as angry and emotional. Should they not remain calm and

measured? It often is. One of the responsibilities is to channel the

questions that the viewers would want Aston a particular situation.

On Friday, Emily brilliantly channelled the questions and the

mood around the handling of the aftermath of that disaster. There

were two very good interviews there. There was plenty of coverage across

the BBC last weekend of the Glastonbury Festival and it made it

onto BBC News, courtesy of an appearance by Jeremy Corbyn. Read 14

minutes of the speech given by the Labour and was covered live on the

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