The Huw Edwards situation
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I suppose it helps bury bad news.
Do you think allegedly DMing a 17-year-old schoolboy on Instagram is normal behaviour for a 61-year-old married man?
How on earth is condemning something that seems obviously very bad/sleazy resulting in a comment about falling from ivory towers????
Point is that isn't normal behaviour and people condemning it don't need worry about falling from any towers (or throwing stones in glass houses or skeletons in their closets) because most people haven't done anything even remotely similar to that ergo your post comes across as a bit iffy.
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coz the bbc has trained us to expect crimes to have been committed.
They seem to have a lots of unconventional people working for them> I think they need to run an investigation on everyone at the BBC.
If you are a high profile public figure, you are subject to a certain level of scrutiny. As in this case.
Obviously we don't have all of the details... He's allegedly been paying young lads for dodgy pictures, sending threatening and abusive messages, potentially broken lockdown rules, and now his BBC colleagues are coming forward with complaints.
That's why.
Why is a crime being committed a requirement for this to be a story?
Did Wayne Rooney break a law when he allegedly slept with a Granny? Did David Beckham break the law when he allegedly had an affair?
Or on the subject of presenters - Philip Schofield didn't break any laws AFAIK.
There is also the alleged lockdown breach and that's pretty bad for a presenter who covered the Covid pandemic too.
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I don't really know the guy, I recognise him, but I find it pretty interesting that a certain hive element of this board are defending someone who has (at best) been guilty of very creepy behaviour. One can only imagine what they would be saying had it been someone else that they didn't like.
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From my first viewing of this just now and can appreciate how difficult it was for the bbc lawyers, managers, other well known faces and then the wife to get this story 100% right.
I'm not saying this smells of ********, but it has an aroma that is not that pleasant!
I'm not saying this smells of ********, but it has an aroma that is not that pleasant!
Is it defending someone to say that private matters aren't any of our business? The only tangible issue so far seems to be the possible covid breach.
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The exceptional dishonesty of declaring a lack of evidence, evidence.
Literal months pass before the teenager declares out of nowhere their age and that is the only referral to their age in the screenshots and the commentary with it.
The account holder specifies the exact moment his age was revealed as months later in the screenshot as reported in The Sun.
My disgust for you giving The Sun credit for something without evidence continues.
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so the sun was right all along. This doesn't look good for the BBC, especially after some of the headlines they used on Monday and yesterday!
I think everyone knew who it was, so it was only a matter of time. He didn't really have a choice.
I think everyone knew who it was, so it was only a matter of time. He didn't really have a choice.
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Yes, and the Met are saying there's no evidence a crime has been committed...so...
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Strange that so-called colleagues and others are now piling on with more alleged complaints. What a shambles.
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For what exactly?
Has there been an update contradicting the previous reports that no underage pictures had been bought?
Because it’s immoral if not illegal. As others have said, it isn’t reasonable, normal or sensible for an old man to be paying a 17 year old tens of thousands for naked pictures. It might not be illegal, but this is the chap who is essentially the face of BBC News and has taken the nation from some of its most serious moments in recent history.
Pretty obvious why it’s a story.
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This seems apt :
Saga underscores importance of privacy law debate
Anyone with an ounce of humanity would not fail to grasp the extraordinary outcome tonight of this story.
Huw Edwards identified as the presenter alleged by The Sun for days to have obtained sexually explicit images from a 17-year-old.
And, almost exactly at the same time, the Metropolitan Police says that the allegations amounts to nothing - there's no evidence of a criminal offence.
This week has been more than a drama - it has had a direct impact on the lives of real people. And that is why the debate around a law that protects each of our private lives is so important in the modern media digital age.
Tonight, campaigners who want a new law of anonymity before criminal charge say the police's confirmation of no suspicion of a crime proves their point. People caught in a storm should not have to rely alone on suing after the reporting of bogus allegations, like Sir Cliff Richard successfully did in 2018.
Saga underscores importance of privacy law debate
Anyone with an ounce of humanity would not fail to grasp the extraordinary outcome tonight of this story.
Huw Edwards identified as the presenter alleged by The Sun for days to have obtained sexually explicit images from a 17-year-old.
And, almost exactly at the same time, the Metropolitan Police says that the allegations amounts to nothing - there's no evidence of a criminal offence.
This week has been more than a drama - it has had a direct impact on the lives of real people. And that is why the debate around a law that protects each of our private lives is so important in the modern media digital age.
Tonight, campaigners who want a new law of anonymity before criminal charge say the police's confirmation of no suspicion of a crime proves their point. People caught in a storm should not have to rely alone on suing after the reporting of bogus allegations, like Sir Cliff Richard successfully did in 2018.
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