other viewers agreed, including heidi morgan, who recorded this video. martine croxall s behaviour on october the 23rd must be viewed as unacceptable by the industry and by viewers. stories need to be reported on in an unbiased manner. journalists are not to side with any individual or party. in my view, croxall s behaviour shows poorjudgement and contradicts neutral reporting and possibly breaches the code of conduct on journalism as well. there were also defenders of martine, such asjenny bradley: bbc news were unable to provide someone to talk about this while the matter was being investigated. instead, they pointed us towards this statement, which was issued on monday. we mentioned last week, the concerns of some of you that a sequence of vox pops featuring those who wanted borisjohnson back as prime minister was not representative of the public s views, or editorially justified. well, there have been plenty more interviews since then with members of the public. here s a
it s not easy to find quick fixes for housing problems, which could leave some students struggling next year, too. branwen jeffreys, bbc news, manchester. you are watching bbc news now newswatch. hello and welcome to news watch with me, samira ahmed. questions are asked after a news channel presenter talks of her glee during a paper review on the night borisjohnson pulls out of the tory leadership contest. i don t know, i don t think i ll be voting again after what happened to boris johnson. that reporter s staple, the vox pop. do we really need to be told so often what random strangers think? demonstrating impartiality on air, as we discussed on last week s programme, is one of the key goals and challenges for bbc news. it wasn t long before the fraught nature of that ambition was exposed again, with the addition of the paper review on the news channel on sunday night, shortly before it was broadcast on a day of high political drama, it emerged that borisjohnson had withdraw
Is that when she said not another one ? not another one, yeah. what about stereotypes, though? because i can get the sense from talking to you that there s an element of atmosphere and colour that you get with vox pops. but we have had complaints over the years that stereotypes emerge in vox pops. so, for example, canvassing scottish women voters in a beauty parlour. northern cliches interviewing people in a working men s club. well, obviously we try and avoid stereotyping and cliches. and actually, what i would say is, you know, these these pieces can be difficult to do. and we ve got correspondents, very experienced correspondents. the two clips you played, alex forsyth and ed thomas, who really understand the political and social context of the places they re going to. and we don tjust go to one location or talk to a single group of people. in fact, all the pieces we ve had over the last couple of weeks, they ve also included businesses business leaders. the piece you played fr