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

Well said Op and other pps. I'm sick of reporters sticking microphones in the faces of distressed people. Perhaps it would be best to switch off the news but then I would feel guilty for ignoring a tragedy which is still unfolding IFSWIM.

The reporting of the recent terrorists attacks was awful enough but this has just been barbaric.

Shoving a microphone into the face of someone who is traumatised is not journalism. It's a disgrace [anger]

I was hounded by the media after the riots. I was extremely vulnerable and i felt I had to do interviews even though I wasn't up to it. Sky News paid my train fare to come back from family (alone) before I was ready so they could get a scoop. Someone in their accounts dept fucked up and because I was homeless they started accidentally paying supplier invoices without addresses into my bank account in £10 increments so I didn't notice with everything that was going on. A year later I owed them £3000 on top of having lost everything I owned.

Perspicacia,

"Often people really want and need to talk (repeatedly) about overwhelming experiences, but you see them on TV apologising for not being able to string their thoughts together coherently, shaking, shocked. They should be talking in a safe space, with time and a caring listener, not on camera being beamed to a billions devices."

Exactly. Perfectly put.

Alba,

Jeez. Hope things improved for you?

It's sickening and I can't help but feel their presence is whipping the residents up even more than is necessary. They are already angry (and rightly so), but it's as if they're being goaded by the media. It'll end in riots.

The reporting on Radio 4 at this very second is just awful.

"Many people are angry, you can hear it around you, you can smell it"
What the actual fuck does he mean by that?!

Thalia well we just floated around until we could get our ID back and rent again. We were refused the compensation that was intended to stop anyone being 'out of pocket' so we just had to get on with things ourselves. I fought for everything we got alone. This has brought back my anger that's for sure.

Radio 5 has been worse than Radio 4! Just awful.

Alba,

Am angry on your behalf now. What a further ordeal to put you through at such a time. No wonder you have empathy for those caught up in the Grenfell media scrum.

I could not agree more. The reporting I've seen on the BBC has been awful. An interviewer questioning a distraught family and asking "so you don't know where your relatives are?" Then practically running after them when they rushed off. Extended news programmes, rolling news and nothing to say and an awful lot of speculation, which is really not helpful. It's made me really cross this week. We don't really need to see distressed people to know what an appalling tragedy this is.

I haven't seen a lot of the reporting on TV as I've been at work. I do think it's right that the press hold people to account and show the human cost of political/societal failings.
There are right and wrong ways of doing that though.

The media has a lot to blame for in this country in general, they cause so much division and destruction with their competition for ratings and readers.

The people who are going through such a traumatic time will have a lot of grief and anger and some of it is quite rightly directed at the media.

Well Daily Mail in true form now publishing pictures of some empty houses owned by the rich.....talk about handing it on a platter to squatters who will no doubt go and break into them. Shesh its appalling.

I spoke to two of the residents this morning on the BBC, they weren't home when it happened thank god but they're homeless now. Whenever this happens the victims are used as headlines and then forgotten about and it makes me sick. Journalists will send you emails pretending to have empathy but you miss this deadline? You could've poured your heart out and they won't even dignify you with a response.

I've set up a survivors group on FB to at least try and be of some use to people in sharing my experience of dealing with insurance and other things that stop you processing the trauma. Advocacy is all I have to give them really.

And I just read that some guy was arrested for opening up a body bag and taking pictures and then posting it on facebook....its a sick society we live in.

YANBU... they're vultures with no shame. This was the great response ever by one of the firefighters (apparently) who was approached by the Sun newspaper

If you want to complain here is the link. If enough of us do it might improve. Maybe. www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/how-to-report-a-complaint/a-programme-i-saw-or-heard

The daily mail also posted photographs of the person who's freezer allegedly exploded on the 4th floor. Absolutely hateful rag.

That's it , I'm not watching it any more it's too upsetting and those journo ghouls should be ashamed. They're literally goading the people and repeating how angry everyone is. Fuck off out & leave the locals to look after each other. My prayers go to all those poor families, may god help them to get through this.

I really wish some awesomely powerful person would just sweep in and destroy Dacre and the Faily Mail! I loathe that rotten rad! It is corrupting the people of Britain and is actually EVIL.

Rag!! It is anything but rad!

I hate the media coverage and don't understand how a towerblock fire is TM's fault. She didn't build the tower block, approve the recent modifications or start the fire. It could have started under any government.
We need to have an investigation in to it to ensure it doesn't happen again and the residents need rehousing.
The braying media fuelled mob wanting TM's blood and instant answers to what is obviously a complex problem is just horrible.

2rebecca - it isn't TM's fault but she hasn't handled this situation well (or hasn't been advised well). Stating 'security issues' as a reason for not speaking with residents when the Queen manages to visit isn't exactly endearing the public to her. It's as if she can't do unscripted / unstaged. She's the leader of the country and this isn't leading.

She didn't build the tower block, approve the recent modifications or start the fire. It could have started under any government.

Disingenuous. Her party has cut council funding by 40% since 2010. They have no money for the upkeep of these building, but manage to fund the cladding of the outside with pretty-but-flammable material - but no funds for sprinkler systems or proper evacuation procedures or fire alarms. The Maintenance Company who managed the £10M renovation to this building last year didn't take fire safety too seriously - but certainly saw fit to award themselves 6 figure salaries.

372 Tory MP's voted against regulations that required landlords to maintain properties to be 'fit for human habitation'.

72 of those Tory MP's who voted against this legislation are also landlords who make £10k+ per annum from rental income. (Based on an FOI request to parliament).

Know how many labour and libdem MP's voted against this legislation? Zero.

Sorry to wade in on your excellent point but here's the link.

Only found it because I wanted to read it for myself.