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
That they use. the bbc doesn t have any of those, does it? when it does vox pops, how are they? how are they representative? well, we don t we don t claim that they are that it s an exact science. we re really clear about where we re going, who we re talking to. and actually, to use the pollsters or the market research example, they do use qualitative research as well as quantitative research. and so, it wouldn t be true to say they don t use qualitative research because obviously, that can at times garner the insights that sums up a particular situation. and so, if we were going to sort of airbrush vox pops out of all our coverage for example, brenda from bristol in april 2017, when theresa may called or a lot of the population were thinking. and perhaps maybe theresa may should be another one.