London Tower Block Fire

I don't think anybody died at that though, according to Wiki 43 injuries, 2 serious ?

Would have been very different, if it had been during 'office hours' of course.

I don't agree at all. It is one thing to handle the aftermath of a tragedy in this way, but yesterday morning it was still a developing story. The building was still burning and emotions were all over the place. The sort of interviews we saw yesterday would have been more appropriate over the next few days.

Notwithstanding your view on the above, Victoria struggled through what was essentially live breaking news once again and it made BBC News' output look amateurish in comparison to Piers and Susanna on ITV.

I'm not sure I totally agree. I think if you wait until days later, you are telling a different story. It's an area where print journalism (and sometimes radio) usually does a better job than TV. I'm not a huge Derbyshire fan (I found her radio show annoying), but I think her approach yesterday and today was a good way of telling the story of the feelings within the community, rather than just straight factual reporting. Both have a place I think. Certainly I've seen interviews and heard stories I wouldn't have heard on other TV outlets - and I think that's not a bad thing.



Yes - her technical abilities at coping with presenting whilst getting new information via talkback is clearly an issue - but that isn't the only skill required.

As for Piers and Susannah - can't compare. I seldom watch GMB.

Are people going to complain about Ben Brown now? IF not then most people on here are just a butch of VD haters.

I don't hate her. I hate very few people. I just don't think she's very good at handling breaking news, which is a disadvantage when you have a two hour slot on the UK's leading news channel.

Think Sophie Raworth's soundcheck was just heard accidentally

I think this is a perfectly legitimate thing to raise. There's not a paper on the newsstand nor a reputable news site on the web that hasn't covered dozens of other stories in the last 24hrs, some of them in quite a bit of detail.

It's absolutely reasonable to ask why broadcast media tends (with exceptions) to ignore the bulk of the other news when a big story - whatever that might be - dominates. If everybody just "got over it" because of "how TV news works", there would be no experimentation or innovation!

Derbyshire's delivery is perfectly fine for Radio 5 Live where that type of interview works perfectly fine in picturing the scene for radio listeners. On a breaking news channel, it's important to establish the facts first.

LBC and Radio 5 Live are fine for speculating on the causes of the fire, but it's worth noting that the angry gentleman was making allegations which couldn't be collaborated and the fact is that she didn't really try to stop him enough.

VD is VERY poor. She just about got away with it on radio and television really does show her up at her Peter Principle.

Bizarre scenes from the commons briefing after the camera is only allowed to be switched on 50 minutes into the briefing.

Piki Seku [sp] - the man who swore on the BBC News Channel yesterday morning - was interviewed by Colin Brazier earlier today.

Mr Seku given a day to calm down had a more measured but still passionate interview on Sky. An example of how to do the human side of the story after the story had developed.