To feel a bit angry at the media at grenfell

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I have just watched Martin bashir ask a poor father what he thinks has happened to his missing family? F&&ok sake!! Really martin must he spell out the dread he is feeling ? to satisfy your need for some real emotional TV? Back off a bit please and show some REAL compassion

Seems to me as though a few reporters have been taking lessons at the Kay Burley School of Truly Shit Journalism and passed with flying colours.
It's sickening and YANBU

I am really disgusted at the BBC actually
For doing live broadcasts on front on the burning building where people were dying
I'm sickened at the media coverage
It has affected me

Where did HE crop up from??!!

Vultures, the lot of them

It really has been truly awful. But we live in a world of rolling news and social media and people seem to need an instant fix.

I turned the TV off and haven't put it on since it happened.

I am really getting angry at the media with this actually. The whole thing. From their live filming, the truly harrowing stories that they are broadcasting, and the whipping up of anger directed at Teresa May, almost specifically.

The media are just as guilty as everyone else involved in this awful tragedy of total indifference (at best) to the plight of the poor. Now it's all phoney righteous indignation.

The standard of tv reporting recently has been shockingly poor. The coverage of the terror attacks was appalling. Sticking microphones into the faces of obviously traumatised people and asking them questions they weren't ready to contemplate was just hideous.

Now the fire coverage has been just as hideous. That horrible man from ITV news (not sure of his name) asked a woman "What was your nephew's name?" the morning after the fire. Her face was just awful as she corrected him, but realised he might actually be right. She was, however, in no way ready be thinking about her nephew in anything other than the present tense.

I agree (and I am an ex journalist). But I also think some of the threads on Mumsnet are feeding into the same race to the bottom.

I am an immigrant to this country. And I've been shocked and appalled by the spite and divisiveness I see in the media. I come from a so-called Third World economy and trust me, the media here outstrips anything I've seen in my homeland and elsewhere...

I agree with AyeAmarok

It's a bit like when that Peston pillock, whipped up the banking crisis

On Tuesday one of the people who tried to help complained that the media helicopter got so close to people who were desperately waving out of the window. He said it was awful to give them false hope whilst trying to grab the most sensational images. I agree. Then the people who just want to be interviewed to get on the TV. I can't watch the news. I think its time we put a stop to live coverage because after 10 minutes they have nothing to say and just repeat conjecture. Id sooner have my normal programme interrupted when there is something to report.

Glad I'm not alone in thinking that the media coverage of this event has been absolutely awful. Insensitive, crass and intrusive. Plus, now is NOT the time to be trying to score political points - now is the time to rally round, contribute to immediate needs and leave these poor people alone to come to terms with what has happened.

Completely agree about some of the threads on munsnet - some people have been positively salivating.

The media when interviewing people after tragedy have, especially in this last decade, become increasingly intrusive and disgusting.

Yup, media coverage has been disgusting- I also watched the This Morning videos on youtube and they were really insensitive. And agree that mumsnet threads have been awful too.

The worst is when the media start trying to blame the victims, for being in social housing
Or pick on the guy whose flat seems to have been where the fire started

I hope that complaint from CH hospital is just a misunderstanding, that a Sun journalist posed as a relative or friend of the injured.
Surely even they wouldn't sink that low ?

Journalists should concentrate on the facts and investigate those who let this disaster happen, who chose to save money
Leave the survivors alone unless they want to be interviewed; even then be respectful and sensitive about what they ask

I watched a BBC gentleman ask someone why they were protesting at the council building. She turned round and told him what a stupid question and why did he think they were there. First time in a long time I actually said out loud to the telly "well said!"

I agree (and I am an ex journalist). But I also think some of the threads on Mumsnet are feeding into the same race to the bottom.

With the way journalism standards are slipping as we lurch further into a digital state, members of this forum can consider themselves journalists given the amount of quotes and threads that appear on their articles.

I've been watching the BBC rolling news coverage of the events outside Kensington Town Hall. I believe they are determined to help create a crisis from a tragedy -
Journalist to member of public 'are you determined to stay here until someone comes out and speaks to you?
Member of public ' er, yes'
Back to studio. journalist 'the crowd says they will not disperse until someone comes out and speaks to them'
you can feel the various journalists practically wetting themselves with excitement at the thought of public disturbances.

"On Tuesday one of the people who tried to help complained that the media helicopter got so close to people who were desperately waving out of the window."

:( :( :(

I hope that complaint from CH hospital is just a misunderstanding, that a Sun journalist posed as a relative or friend of the injured.
Surely even they wouldn't sink that low ?

YABU, of course they would. Their now ex sister newspaper NOTW hacked the voicemail of Milly Dowler hoping to get a 'scoop' on a story, leaving her parents hopeful that was was still alive because 'she' was checking her voicemail regularly when she had in fact been killed

There was one interviewer the other day, I can't remember what channel, was interviewing people who witnessed poor souls jumping and asked them things like "did they fall to the ground?", "did you see them hit the ground"?

FFS.

Jon Snow and Victoria Derbyshire have been more empathetic though.

I also agree. The way some of the BBC journalists were hounding relatives of those unaccounted for was completely inappropriate. One of them leant right into a woman's face, shoving the microphone at her and was trying to get her to speculate on what had happened to her relative. Made me turn off.

My sister works as a doctor at Charing Cross hospital, she had to show her security pass to enter the building because journalists had been trying to get into the burns unit. They are utter filth.

I think there has been a willingness of some media outlets to find angry people and build terrible events into mass hysteria. No-one can ever do enough in a situation like this because people cannot be brought back to life but we do know where the problems are likely to be and no-one, and that includes London MPs, mayors, Council's or the Government understood that combustible panel cladding should not be used. No party has updated the building regs. No party insisted on sprinklers. No-one ever talked about it before now - in any party.

Grieving people will be confused, angry and bewildered. Our press has been poor. Even the people combing the building are being criticised now for being too slow in exceedingly dangerous conditions. Some of the hot heads whipping this up are appalling.

I think Victoria Derbyshire seemed genuinely compassionate about what was happening. However I swear those fuckers that were reporting today were trying to whip up the anger and were drooling at the thought of a riot.