Side of Ham
3:55 Fri Jul 14
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He'll get no sympathy or indeed a feeling of being bothered by it from me......
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Swiss.
3:53 Fri Jul 14
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only1billybonds 3:47 Fri Jul 14
""Knowing all this, he still paid an addicted kid for lewd footage"
I wonder how this kid would have paid for their habit if he hadn't been paying him/her? Addiction isn't something you can just switch off.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
3:52 Fri Jul 14
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MPI
That's pretty close to saying it's the public's fault that Huw Edwards is a sleaze-bag.
Huw Edwards isn't paid all that money just for reading off an auto-cue. Any cunt can do that. He's paid all that money for reading off an auto-cue whilst exuding an air of calm, dignified authority. And he isn't just any old newsreader, he's the face of the state broadcaster.
That's why you can't compare him to other people. Nobody gives a fuck what the greengrocer does. Nobody really gives a fuck what Johnny Vegas or Claire Balding does. But none of those is employed as some sort of nation father-figure. That's why he earns the big bucks.
In the light of what happened with Jimmy Savile and, to a lesser extent, Phillip Schofield, it is entirely appropriate for the Sun newspaper to kick up a fuss about how this complaint about a star presenter was (not) dealt with. The left, both Edwards's mates at the BBC and the left-wing media, are up in arms about this because they can't accept any criticism of the BBC. As others have said, if this was Farage or Nadine Dorries or any other right-leaning presenter from TalkTV or GBN, they'd be all over it.
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only1billybonds
3:47 Fri Jul 14
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Swiss.
Edwards knew he was a huge figure in the public eye. He knows how the news works. He knows the toxicity in certain sections of the media. He knew the fallout from his actions would have been huge. He knew he would jepordise his career,huge salary and reputation should his antics be discovered. And he knew the affect all this could have on his kids/grandkids.
Knowing all this, he still paid an addicted kid for lewd footage and got caught. I'm not saying the media play by the rules but he knew those rules better than anyone.
Others can weep for him but he'll get no sympathy from me.
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Moncurs Putting Iron
3:28 Fri Jul 14
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Swiss,
I take that and it made me think. It's the public that put him on a pedestal particularly during the lying in state and it will be the public that's putting the noose around his neck and kicking said pedestal away.
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Swiss.
3:15 Fri Jul 14
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Moncurs Putting Iron 2:44 Fri Jul 14
I totally disagree. What you do in your private life should have no impact on your profession. He did a good commentary is it worse now because if this? I think Michael Jackson was a genius musician. As a person that's different.
He just a presenter prestenting what's written for him. It's not as if he writes his own blurb on morality etc...that would be different.
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Fo the Communist
2:57 Fri Jul 14
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All good here, Billy.
Don't really disagree with that, to be honest.
Your last point is particularly salient. Social media has put the traditional media in a tailspin that it has yet to pull itself out of.
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The Ghost of Sven
2:54 Fri Jul 14
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By the look of Huw Edwards on the front of last nights Evening Standard the tv make up lady that makes him half way presentable is a SHOE-IN for a BAFTA
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Sir Alf
2:49 Fri Jul 14
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Do we know if the teenagers were male, female or both? If the former, and based on his age and the time he grew up, Edwards probably been living a repressed life ?
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only1billybonds
2:49 Fri Jul 14
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Alright Fo, very well ta, same back to you.
Fo, I have no alegiance to any one party mate, i have voted Labour, Tory, Brexit party and the odd indendent candidate.
I have no feelings towards Morgan, I've agreed with him in the past and also thought he has spoke a load of tripe.
As for Liddle, all he did was have thoughts, he didnt ACT on them regardless of how unsavoury those thoughts were.
And the media has changed beyond recognition since the advent of SM, totally different set of rules these days, nit sure those who got off light for their antics a few years ago would have such an easy ride today.
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Moncurs Putting Iron
2:44 Fri Jul 14
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If you are going to receive plaudits for you coverage of the Queen lying in state you must also expect to receive condemnation and negative press for being a dirty old fucker, online soliciting 17 year old girls.
Peoples interpretation of how far and deep that coverage goes will differ according to whether they consider 24 news coverage and trial by social media food or poison for the masses.
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Moncurs Putting Iron
2:43 Fri Jul 14
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If you are going to receive plaudits for you coverage of the Queen lying in state you must also expect to receive condemnation and negative press for being a dirty old fucker, online soliciting 17 year old girls.
Peoples interpretation of how far and deep that coverage goes will differ according to whether they consider 24 news coverage and trial by social media food or poison for the masses.
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Hammer and Pickle
2:36 Fri Jul 14
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My view is the likes of Nigel Farage are the serious problem worthy of media attention while this really is a distraction for those whole want to draw attention away from their own emotional disorder behaviour
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Fo the Communist
2:28 Fri Jul 14
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only1billybonds 2:17 Fri Jul 14
Afternoon Billy. Hope you are well.
I think you are also falling into the trap of shaping your views because of your politics.
Morgan, for example, had far less coverage of his actions as editor of a national paper in publishing a story - incorrectly - of squaddies torturing Iraqi civilians in the back of a military vehicle. An egregious error (to use the adjective of the moment) and one with potentially devastating consequences,
There's Rod Liddle, who has been wheeled out to defend The Sun, has not suffered a backlash over his written admission that he could not be a teacher because he would succumb to the temptation of shagging the pupils.
I am sure there are some who will make hay according to their political allegiance. That will be true on both sides.
But let's not get side-tracked. The issue is here is not Edwards' messy private life - its the nature and role of the UK media.
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PwoperNaughtyButNot
2:26 Fri Jul 14
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BRANDED do you mean the perv or the kid is the member of yo her family?
No crime has been committed but if a 61year old bloke was doing this with a teenager in my family then a crime would take place that’s for sure
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BRANDED
2:22 Fri Jul 14
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So we can be happy when its someone we dont agree with?What if it was a member of your family or a friend?
Anyway. It's all over now. Wait for the next salacious story to break.
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PwoperNaughtyButNot
2:20 Fri Jul 14
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Ok then Pickle
Why is your opinion that you have arrived at through independent thought?
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only1billybonds
2:17 Fri Jul 14
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And while the media frenzy is hyperbole if you work in a highly paid job in his industry it comes with the territory?
Exactly this. Not saying its right or wrong but this is the culture we live in and if you know that you are instantly recognisible to most of the adult population then you need to get your kicks partaking in something other than paying kids a tidy wedge for online footage of their genitals.
And as Griff0 said, as did I earler in the thread, had this been Farage,Morgan or any of the big hitters on GB news, certain people on here and in the wider world would not be able to conceal their joy.
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Hammer and Pickle
2:11 Fri Jul 14
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But there is no such narrative so you’ll just be a nitwit and not brave at all.
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PwoperNaughtyButNot
1:56 Fri Jul 14
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comma I understand the hypocrisy of the Suns position here, that is why we need to put it aside otherwise we create another distraction from the story. Ironically distraction is what the story itself is accused of being.
There has to come a time in journalism, media, discourse where one distraction cannot be covered by another and so on and so on for ever.
If we are to stop the clock and focus on the issue in isolation.
Is it ok for a 61 year old bloke to exchange naked pictures with a teenager?
I’ll be brave and go against the media narrative and say no, no it isn’t.
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Fo the Communist
1:52 Fri Jul 14
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Stewie
Not true on any count, mate.
And leaving aside the fact that MPs of any colour should be held to greater account than a newsreader, can you name an equivalent story involving the private life of an MP that has earned such disproportionate coverage?
Where, for example, was the round the clock commentary on the sexual and illegal exploits of, say, Chris Pincher - the man who brought down a Prime Minister? Most people don't even know that was the reason for Johnson losing the Premiership.
And to clarity, the issue here is not (for me) a political one, it is about the role, character and quality of the UK media.
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