15/07/2017 Newswatch

Hello and welcome to Newswatch with meets Amira Ahmed. Wimbledon fans

have been glued to television screens this past fortnight,

butchered tennis take priority of the news? And would have mail

politician be asked if he had shed a tear on election night? We are

coming to the end of the Wimbledon fortnight, an annual treat the

tennis fans. But the source of frustration for authors never mind

the many hours of live action on BBC One and BBC Two, the tournament has

beat it strongly over the past two weeks on breakfast, the news channel

and news bulletins. The have the features and the famously long queue

for spectators to get into Wimbledon, the condition of Andy

Murray's. Dodgy hip and discussion of the baby his wife is on the way.

A number of injuries sustained by the players during matches, the

state of the grass on court and of course, the progress of our great

British single hopes. All lapped up by like strobe losing cream by a

fishy Arnos. But not by Josh who wrote...

On Tuesday night it was not so much a question of tennis beating in the

news as instead of the news, specifically some local news

bulletins as it came up to six o'clock the British number one woman

was battling out on Centre Court in her quarterfinal and it was decided

to keep showing that much on BBC One instead of the scheduled news at

six. Meanwhile, and BBC Two they have abandoned their plan Wimbledon

coverage for unscheduled repeat as rain meant no other matches were

being played, confused, John Wilson certainly didn't understand the

logic e-mailing... Another viewer Pat Brown was also

annoyed by this and record this video to explain why. Hello

Newswatch, we have been subscribers to the radio time the many a year.

But, come Wimbledon fortnight perceptually might as well go out of

the window. Prime example was on Tuesday, when at six o'clock the

news was turned over to BBC Two, can't Wimbledon fans clip that

channel? Perhaps not. Capping it all, no London News whatsoever that

night. Why was that? Not very good BBC. The London news was in fact

shown that evening later than scheduled, but another part of the

UK such as Scotland and Northern Ireland the early evening regional

bulletin. Altogether. We hope to discuss the reasoning behind this

with someone from BBC television but no one was available, instead they

gave as the statement. It has been a month now since the

fire at Grenfell Tower in London in which at least 80 people died. Of

Wednesday morning there was a report on the impact of the disaster has

had on the local community, particularly in children. All the

children here have witnessed unimaginable horror, we asked for a

show of hands for those who knew someone who had died. This is the

beginning of the healing progress, but we know that feeling will take

years, very long time. Having watched that, once you have this to

say... And Justin Pannell contacted us with

some general thoughts on coverage of the Grenfell Tower one month on...

And another report on the aftermath of Grenfell Tower came from Mark

Easton on Wednesday's news at ten. It began like this. A black nail

hammered into London's conscience. Grenfell Tower demands your

attention. In its shadow the faces of the missing are everywhere. On

trees and walls and bus shelters, unblinking it is hard to whole of

the accuser Tory gaze. Several reviews posted their responses on

twitter. One viewer wrote... And one viewer made the same point

on camera. , BBC this is a serious news item, why did I have to have

dramatic build-up music more akin to a drama such as Silent witness or

Hollywood movie? This is the BBC is not Fox News, it was unnecessary

trivialises a serious news item. On Wednesday MPs debated the abuse

and intimidation of Parliamentary candidate after a cross-party report

said the Sergeant, racism and bigotry was on the rise. Politicians

such as Diane Abbott described the repeated online abuse they had been

subjected to. Theresa May has ordered an enquiry into the subject.

William McNulty rang me with these thoughts. If you know that the

Labour Prime Minister is addressed all Alli or Jeremy Corbyn is

addressed, by members of Newsnight the media in general is aggressive

in their tone against politicians and unfortunately I think this

translates to members of the public. I think the media, certainly the BBC

although they alone, have contributed to the levels of abuse

that politicians have to put up with today. On Wednesday's daily politics

the Labour MP came to discuss the scale of personal abuse directed at

politicians. I think it's been getting worse, I don't get that much

XXX. It comes overwhelmingly from the

right, but it does not matter where it comes from it is unacceptable and

anyone who practices that is wrong. I think you had not use abusive

language is. And sometimes it is appropriate. I feel very strongly.

Understand but don't use it again. In that live discussed in they were

unable to bleep out the ten used by the MP which led to this response

from Mr Thomas. I do not want to be sitting here with my grandchildren

listening to people come out of disgusting language. There are

little children about at this time of the day. Another political

interview cause more controversy this week, conducted by Emma Barnett

on radio five live she asked the Prime Minister how she reacted on

election night when she saw the exit poll. Did you have a cry? I felt,

devastated, really. Devastated enough to shed a tear? Yes, a little

tear. At that moment. At that moment yes. That the mission was headlined

throughout the day, it is worth bearing in mind that interviews like

this on a range between the Prime Minister's offers and the programme,

but some viewers felt a line of questioning and the prominence given

to it played into gender stereotypes.

Finally, back to tennis and the defeats of Britain's great hopes

Andy Murray and joke onto. Here are the headlines from the News at six

on Wednesday and Thursday. And Andy Murray crashes out of the

quarterfinals at Wimbledon and finally admit he was injured. And

the end of a dream for Britain's Konta as she crashes out of the

Wimbledon semifinals. One viewer wanted, -- one viewer wondered...

Thank you for all your comments this week, if you want to shake your

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all, we will be back to hear your thoughts about BBC News coverage

again next week. Goodbye. Hello, so far not so good for the

weekend whether there is some others brightened up on