Huw Edwards named as BBC presenter!

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I'm actually shocked.

Dan Wooton will be all over this, pleased at the possibility of having a third person destroyed at his hands.

It's disturbing how many people don't actually READ the news, beyond an inflammatory headline.

This thread is full of people saying "but what he's done is disgusting", when no evidence has been shared! We still don't actually know what, if anything, he has actually done.

This whole thing has been handled atrociously.

The only thing that's been confirmed, as far as I can tell, is that the police see no evidence of any crime.

I also used to date a foreign news journalist and thought he may have span and made things up, generally then and now he was more concerned about reporting the correct story and exposing corrupt, cruel behaviour. Not all journalists lie.

I did used to have contact with DM journos through work and yes they lied. Nasty snobby pieces of shit who were quite happy to deal with you through work and then bitch about you behind your back. I didn’t care if they did because I was no threat to them but i minimised contact with them.

@Blinky21 completely agree!! You'd think he'd murdered someone. So blown out of proportion!!

I wish others would do that.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/met-police-say-no-criminal-30453505

Yes and the ironic thing is the Sun was publishing pictures of naked 16 year olds up until quite recently before the law changed and it was common to see grimey men openly slathering over it in vans on lunch breaks and pages ripped out and hung up in male dominated workplaces, sports locker rooms etc etc. The Sun pictures of 16 year olds on page 3! What a bloody cheek The Sun has then to then dance around with this half baked, Tory sympathising story when the police have said nothing illegal, whcihbmist mean this person was over 18 and consented! A crack addicts mother who wanted cold hard cash. And yes she says she didn't ASK for money but doesn't mean she wasn't paid does it?! Ha to the lot of it. Anyone with an ounce of intelligence can see right through this bull to the other side. It's purely designed to take down the BBC, not Hugh. Hugh should be answerable to his wife. Last time I checked your employment contract doesn't ask about your sexual preferences and it's none of their business, much as I dislike the sex trade. He will lose his job anyway, no doubt about that now. It's gone thermonuclear.

I wasn't looking...there were memes all over Facebook with Huw's face in them from yesterday.

Media kicked up a massive shitstorm with vague untruths. Calling the ‘victim’ a child constantly despite them being 20. No pics were sent whilst victim was 17.

Bit sleazy? Yes. But nothing that should have been reported to the world.

Instead of huffing and puffing about your money paying his wages (I hope you’ve checked with the bin man what he does with his salary too), why aren’t you questioning about George Osborne being accused of rape or that bag of shit Johnson not handing over his phone because ‘you’ve paid their wages’ too and the actions of these men directly fucked us all.

This

The amount of posters bending over backwards to defend such appalling behaviour is sickening.

I don’t believe they do all lie, I should have made that clearer. As I said the person I dated reported science stuff and there were no lies there, they were more meticulous about getting things correct, but stories like this and rags like the DM and the Sun would be twisting things all over the place. It concerns me that someone can just read stories like this and blindly believe everything they’re reading is correct. But I guess a lot of people do that, which is how things end up how they do

Didnt break the law.

But very poor judgement and moral compass.

Sorrynfor wife having to deal with his cheating and then the aftermath of this.

Dirty twat. I feel so let down, he told me the queen had died

WTF. Was that a lie too!? What a cunt

@Chickenkeev
People with actual psychiatric illness are at the mercy of delusions/ hallucinations etc. So schizophrenia, bipolar, psychotic depression. Their beliefs are not aligned with reality - Major Psychiatric Illness. They could believe voices are speaking to them and commenting on their actions - in a very critical manner. But they don’t have insight that this is not true.

Other conditions - anxiety: less severe depression- people know they are unwell, and their beliefs have founding in reality. They develop anxiety about things they know they don’t like - even if they don’t know the exact reason - their reasoning is not distorted.

In my view the awakening of understanding about Mental Health, has affected our ability to understand and be empathic about Mental Illness. Much easier to speak about anxiety, than irrational psychotic delusions that you see know point in discussing because you believe them to be true.

Again, I am speaking in general terms about the difference between Mental Health and Mental Illness - in my view.

I agree - I was just thinking about whether this would have got the same reaction if it was with men of a similar age to him and of course it wouldn't have at all. I think there would have been a lot of sympathy for him. It's the feeling that he's approaching much younger men in their late teens because there's more of an opportunity to exploit for money or just using influence of celebrity/power that's sitting really badly with me.

I can't help but wonder if there was a blackmail issue going on here. What he did was sleazy and very very wrong but I wonder if there is more to this and he stopped playing along and hence the reporting of him - it's an awful lot of money for what is pretty easy to acquire it seems for very modest amounts - if not for free

Yes what's a little bit of exploitation of vulnerable teenagers for your own sexual gratification 🙄

Tbf if someone is getting paid public money, they should be held to a particular standard

and yet the Sun doesn't seem so quick to pick up on Tory politicians' wrong doings. Funny that.....

She's not gonna apologise for shit if they're planning to sue.

We have no idea of any of the facts as yet, other than no crime has been committed based on the evidence seen.

You don’t have to be young to be vulnerable, nor are all young people vulnerable.
These are huge sweeping inaccurate statements.

I’m sure we can all agree that young drug addicts are extremely vulnerable.

Will the various outlets that discussed other names be apologising?

For some reason I wasn’t shocked. Older male tv presenter in a sex scandal stopped being shocking for me since Frank Bough hit the headlines many years ago (that one did shock me as I was younger and more naive, though he wasn’t with minors it was still sleazy).

No crime has been committed.

@Willyoujustbequiet he hasn't been charged with exploitation of anyone?

The Sun picks and chooses its victims carefully.

Who is the she ?