BBC Scandal

[jd1981]

Ask the average bystander whose actions are worse.
Huw Edwards went on dating app and engaged in private dialogue with young person (not underage) used unpalatable language after being threatened himself?
No crime under law committed, no severe distress caused other than to his own family.
Reporter and tabloid paper running the story, over embellished reporting of a private matter that’s already caused severe distress to the Edwards family then cause them a second round of stress which means there loved one is admitted to hospital.
Choose your morals wisely here, BBC has done the right thing here for hiding Edwards identity for as long as is possible to allow him to get the treatment he needs.

 

[Kenny]

Was in The Herald too, this was the article
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Mental!

If that happened today though your Dad would be pictured looking sad, outside a post office, shrugging his shoulders in a "where's me parcel" stance

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

I just hope a few on here feel a bit ashamed of the smartarse comments made earlier in the thread

 

[Kenny]

You can see why some were a bit what the fuck dude.

It sounds insane and the type of story Bob Mortimer tells on Would I Lie

 

[Dublin Drummer Wolf]

Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction etc...

 

[Alan]

Would have been a hell of a yarn to just spin on the spot.

 

[ROVERT47]

As someone who has been involved with serious mental health issues over the last few years I feel for both him and his family.

 

[sycophantia]

I just hope a few on here feel a bit ashamed of the smartarse comments made earlier in the thread

I'd hope so, but don't hold your breathe.

 

[sycophantia]

You can see why some were a bit what the fuck dude.

It sounds insane and the type of story Bob Mortimer tells on Would I Lie

I mean they could have just taken what was posted as read until shown otherwise, rather than been patronising arseholes.

 

[Del Woppio]

I mean they could have just taken what was posted as read until shown otherwise, rather than been patronising arseholes.

Just used a bit of common sense too. I read it and thought 'that seems unlikely' but then to take the next step of basically accusing somebody of making up a story about their dead dad....like what's the cost/benefit of that ffs

 

[prawnking]

Regarding The Sun, the BBC, politicians etc it reminds me of the line from the Godfather;
'Senator, we are all part of the same hypocrisy'.

Godfather Part II

 

[leedswolf]

Godfather Part II

But never think it applies to my family.

 

[Sniffer]

I don't think the "young person's" parents come out of this well either.

They’ve recorded an interview with TalkTV and have been paid a significant sum for their troubles.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

All this is vile, and just symptomatic of a lot of society's ills at the moment.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1679439418698919936

 

[leedswolf]

Tool...

 

[Kenny]

If Mckenzie is on yourside...you are in the wrong.

 

[leedswolf]

He described Ross Barkley as ‘a gorilla at the zoo’ after an altercation in a Liverpool nightclub. Ross Barkley’s grandfather was born in Nigeria...

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

 

[Tom Hark]

There's a victim and a fool in this case, and they're both Welsh newsreaders.