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Laura Kuenssberg

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Jalima Thu 23-Mar-17 23:05:20

Today is not the right time for an inquisition.
Everything is very raw, straightforward reporting of the news is what is needed and time for questioning later on.
I for one am finding Laura Kuenssberg increasingly grating and inappropriately intrusive at a time of grief for many people.

Perhaps the BBC should give her a programme of her own when she can investigate and present issues which she feels need her razor sharp style of journalism - and we can switch her off if we like without the risk of missing the next item of news.

Chewbacca Thu 23-Mar-17 23:01:56

Agree 100% tigger. I've got to the point where I can't bear to listen to her reportage because of her insufferable need to injection drama into every news item. No matter how boring or mundane the subject, Kuenssberg seems to almost delight in delivering ever more dire and urgent bulletins and always seems to have a ready made scapegoat lined up to account for it.. She seems to have a need to lay blame for something, very specifically at someone's feet, usually in political reportage. How unpleasant of her to be doing it when so many have suffered already. Only one person was to blame for yesterday's events. And it wasn't any member of the police force.

Anniebach Thu 23-Mar-17 22:52:44

But she spoke the truth, isn't this what we want? Was she to lie and say the shot was fired by an officer, why not give credit to the man who did stop the terrorist . And he did breach the parlimentry gateway didn't he? Do we want facts or not.

tigger Thu 23-Mar-17 22:42:17

Is it me, or does anyone else find Lauran Kurenssberg's coverage of he terrorist attack provocative and divisive? I have just watched her latest BBC broadcast where she states that it was not the police but a minister's bodyguard who apprehended the terrorist and killed him. By implication she infers that the Parliamentary Police Force was inadequate and slow to react. Also that the terrorist was able to breach the Parliament gateway. Given that the attack was the action of a "lone wolf" the action taken by the police officers in the first instance was exemplary. I believe it was inappropriate for her to comment in the tone and manner she made this broadcast and perhaps many others may agree with my opinion of her stance she made on this occasion.