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Transcripts for BBCNEWS The Media Show 20240604 01:49:00

Are eleanor langford, a political reporter for the website politics home, and katie ferguson, the deputy political editor at the sun. and, kate, you and a sun colleague had that exclusive that an at that point unnamed male mp had been accused of watching porn in the house of commons. how did you break that story, kate? i mean, this was a story that came. i think came to me on a tuesday night, that tory mps had been having a meeting in parliament and that meeting was there to discuss how you can keep and attract more women into politics. that quite quickly became a sort of #metoo meeting where lots of anger boiled over into allegations of sexual misconduct among their own colleagues, and in that quite highly charged meeting, someone did mention that they had seen a colleague on his phone watching pornography in the house of commons chamber. and someone told me that, so that s how we got that story. we broke it early the next day. ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS The Media Show 20240604 00:48:00

In the debating chamber. but what about the culture of politicaljournalism reporting on them? former minister and conservative mp margot james is still with us, as are eleanor langford, a political reporter for the website politics home, and katie ferguson, the deputy political editor at the sun. and, kate, you and sun colleague had that exclusive that an at that point unnamed mp had been accused of watching porn in the house of commons. how did you break that story, kate? i mean, it was a story that came. i think came to me on a tuesday night, that tory mps had been having a meeting in parliament and that meeting was there to discuss how you can keep and attract more women into politics. that quickly became a sort of #metoo meeting where lots of anger boiled over into allegations of sexual misconduct among their own colleagues, and in that quite highly charged meeting, someone did mention that they had seen a colleague on his phone watching pornography in the house of commons chamber. ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS The Media Show 20240604 00:56:00

And eleanor. sorry, sorry to interrupt. eleanor, i going to sayjust quickly, what s your take on whether politicaljournalism has more of an issue with sexism than other areas of journalism? i m with kate, i m not certain because i ve not worked in other areas ofjournalism, but i do think that because, as kate was thinking, because of that very personal relationship you have to have with mps and people in politics that you may be experienced, counting on people and you get to know them a lot more closely. so, you maybe encounter these kind of issues more often because rather than speaking to 30 people and then never speaking to them again, you re speaking to them again and again and there s more of a chance for inappropriate behaviour to come out if somebody is that way inclined. just really quickly, on your list of who you tell your editor, is it by political ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS The Media Show 20240604 00:57:00

Party, is one party worse than the other or can you not say? definitely can t say that. fair enough, i m afraid that s all we have time for today. thank you so much, margotjames, former minister and now executive chair at the university of warwick, thank you also of course to kate ferguson, deputy political editor at the sun, and eleanor langford from politics home, who was just ending it there. the media show will be back next week. thank you so much for listening. goodbye. hello. the weekend brought plenty of dry and settled late spring weather. one or two showers on saturday for eastern england but sunday was dry pretty much across the board. this was the picture in bradfield in sheffield. a bit of air whether cloud on sunday. a change in the forecast through the week ahead. it s looking more unsettled. windier, wetter too, especially for western scotland. could be some rain by ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS The Media Show 20240604 00:52:00

And their staff making quite inappropriate jokes about female colleagues and sometimes male colleagues to an extent. and it s. thankfully, i ve never had anything too severe, but it is a little uncomfortable to be hearing that when you are down the corridor from your office effectively or if you are in a bar, and that s one of the things come up a lot this week is the bars and how those facilitate lots of behaviour. and i saw margot shaking her head. before i bring you in, margot, i just want to ask you one more thing, eleanor, which is we framed our discussion at the top of the programme about power and how it can be abused. i wonder when you were early on in your career like you are, is it particularly hard to speak out when your career effectively depends on cultivating relationships with mps? i m very lucky that i ve got an incredibly supportive team and the second i say to my editor, like with an mp, i would not be comfortable, when i want them, they will deal with that. and have ....

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