Huw Edwards - 6 month suspended sentence (pg 107)

[Centurions]

If that’s the case I’ve no sympathy for either of them but the collateral damage here is a kid who got his hands on a substantial amount of money and developed a very expensive and damaging drug habit, Edwards is an absolute wanker.

According to the parents who took it to the media presumably cap in hand (the Sun at that), has that ever been confirmed?

 

[Palerider]

It's the world we live in and like it or not there is no moral high ground to be taken. Are unproven rumours about Trump ok to print? What about Partygate? What about Matt Hancock being caught grabbing his girlfriends bum on CCTV? And worst of all, what about the concerted press effort (from all papers) to destroy Jeremy Corbyn? A couple of other points, The Sun did not print 'the name' most of us however went to the trouble to find out 'the name' ourselves so are we worse than the Sun? One final point, in his worst moments Huw Edwards found out who his real friends at the BBC were, "I'm Spartacus" it certainly was NOT. So much for all those internal team building days!

 

[west didsblue]

I have no idea who those two are.

Covered extensively earlier in the thread. Harry Cole is a Sun journalist who tweeted his fantasies about young girls. Rod Liddle is a former Sun journalist who wrote an article 20 years ago questioning why it was illegal to look at child porn on the internet, and he was on Sky defending the Sun.

 

[hammocity]

FFS, judgemental or what? Do you have your own supply of feathers and tar or do you need someone to supply them? You presumably have your own signature pitchfork?

I do t give two fucks about him, it’s an opinion not a judgement, I do feel sorry for his wife, she is one of the victims. Just like Frank Bough, Edwards will now retire with his pension pot intact and he’s got the option to jerk himself off to those images for the rest of his life whilst his Mrs will be the subject of ridicule, ax will he but the perverted **** deserves it.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Like Schofield this **** has been living a lie if he gets his rocks off by fantasising over young boys regardless of age. If someone is gay that’s not a problem but he’s married to the mother of his five kids, not many take her or Schofield’s wife position into account. She should fuck him off, what an absolute thunder ****, perverted twat.

GB News has got you all rattled and angry.

Step away and focus on ya own life.

I have no interest in the personal lives of TV presenters - if they’ve done wrong but not illegal then it's down to them and their family to resolve.

 

[Centurions]

That's a fair position to take but I don't think it will ever be the case that sleaze from public figures is not reported on.

To some degree, that is what they sign up for and the price of fame/the huge rewards they enjoy.

In fact, not behaving in such a manner is something that their employers and the people that givevthem such rewards also expect of them. David Mellor, many other mps, Jamie Theakston, Frank Bough and many others found out that their employers also (at least temporarily) considered their behaviour a serious matter, not just the media.

And there is a good argument for having some sort of implication that, as a public figure, you do not fall into disrepute is a good thing. Especially in the era of scumbags like Trump and Johnson trying to degrade public standards.

It is also worthwhile stating that many people who are not in the public eye and wouldn't make the front pages - eg judges, doctors, teachers, etc - would also find their profession and reputations in serious jeopardy if caught in the same position as Edwards, even without the media coverage.

You call it sleaze but surely it's a private matter between two consenting adults with no criminality involved?

Anything between their employers and themselves is most definitely not "in the public interest".

I just think there is a line (there has to be) but everyone has trampled all over it in order to sell column inches.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

If that’s the case I’ve no sympathy for either of them but the collateral damage here is a kid who got his hands on a substantial amount of money and developed a very expensive and damaging drug habit, Edwards is an absolute wanker.

Not according to the kid, whose lawyers have said the story was rubbish.

We don't know half of this, no idea why people are so keen to jump to conclusions.

 

[Kinkybyname]

It's the world we live in and like it or not there is no moral high ground to be taken. Are unproven rumours about Trump ok to print? What about Partygate? What about Matt Hancock being caught grabbing his girlfriends bum on CCTV? And worst of all, what about the concerted press effort (from all papers) to destroy Jeremy Corbyn? A couple of other points, The Sun did not print 'the name' most of us however went to the trouble to find out 'the name' ourselves so are we worse than the Sun? One final point, in his worst moments Huw Edwards found out who his real friends at the BBC were, "I'm Spartacus" it certainly was NOT. So much for all those internal team building days!

Good points. I'd love this to have been about Rees-Mogg. I'm sure all the tub-thumpers would have a different take on that... or maybe not - depending on their agenda.

The biggest fucking scandal out of all of this, is not the tawdry tag we can apply to all sides, it is the fact that someone gets paid more than two grand a day to read a fucking autocue.

 

[hammocity]

GB News has got you all rattled and angry.

Step away and focus on ya own life.

I have no interest in the personal lives of TV presenters - if they’ve done wrong but not illegal then it down to them and their family to resolve.

Why the fuck are you in here then?

I’m not angry or rattled, just giving an opinion on a seedy ****.

 

[Mon Autre]

I’m not so sure.
He done nothing illegal.
He had a workplace affair.
that’s all there really is to it. He got absolutely hounded and pillared by the Media and Social Media to the point of suicide. You’d think we’d learn as a society but the reaction was the same for this case. so many lapping up the Suns ‘who is it’ campaign and relishing the downfall of someone mainly because they work on television.

The post I was replying to said some would argue that Edwards owed his employer an explanation and then that was compared to the Schofield case. I should imagine that if you have an affair with a workplace subordinate, on work premises, who then ends up having to leave their position then there's more of a case to answer to your employer than if you've been getting your rocks off on OnlyFans in your free time.