BBC presenter Huw Edwards suspended over paying for sexual pics.

[planetgeli]

Took a voluntary pay cut in protest of the gender pay-gap at the BBC.

Top bloke!

That's not really being 'Left' though is it? That's just a rich liberal who has too much money with which to use sensibly, as proved here.

 

[Spymaster]

That's not really being 'Left' though is it?

No. But he is!

 

[Ms T]

Took a voluntary pay cut in protest of the gender pay-gap at the BBC.

Top bloke!

Not sure how "voluntary" any of those pay cuts were by male stars (a few took them). Zoe Ball on the other hand....

 

[girasol]

I wonder how many they do get.

There's probably enough that the HR department has a special section dedicated to dealing with them

Was listening to the actual BBC news yesterday and seem to remember mention of around 200 issues a week? (or month? can't remember ) - so a lot to investigate. Many are completely unfounded, and involve people with MH/parasocial issues. The complaint sorting process is just slow and ineffective - maybe the BBC needs more people working on this. Pay Gary Lineker a bit less and hire more staff to deal with complaints?

Surely I'm not the only thinking The Sun/DM/conspiraloons are using this as a stick to beat the BBC with - there's a lot of people who think of it as biased and part of the "MSM liars/manipulators". When in fact this is a man who behaved potentially unlawfully, but it's not just a BBC problem, it's a "famous, powerful man" problem that is endemic. There's too much good on the BBC and some bad - but sadly those who hate the BBC are looking for any excuse to shut it down.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Took a voluntary pay cut in protest of the gender pay-gap at the BBC.

Top bloke!

A Christian who attends church weekly. Quelle-fucking-surprise...

 

[JimW]

Typo, should say attends church weakly after being up all night wanking furiously online.

 

[gosub]

History of depression in there. Can't imagine this helps

 

[editor]

I'm closing this thread soon if people keep posting up hints and information about the accused presenter. What's the fucking matter with you lot?

 

[Thora]

The Instagram messages are boringly not very shocking I mean, I don't think men in their 60s should be chatting with teens on social media as a general rule. But it's hardly a scandal, is it?
Kind of in the same category of yuck as Leonardo DiCaprio and his forever 21 year old girlfriends.

I can see the perspective of the mother who made the initial complaint - if your teenage child has a crack habit and is funding it by selling sexual content to a very famous and wealthy older man, of course you are going to try to cut off that income. Not sure I understand going to the Sun though.

His behaviour is totally ick and grim, but I also wonder how many of the Twitter morally outraged are straight on Pornhub looking up young teen/step daughter vids.

 

[AverageJoe]

if putting an x on a mesage is pretty damning im fucked, do it will all my mates and kids

I sometimes reply to work Skypes with a heart emoji.

To me it means "love that".

Not "love you"

 

[Wilf]

It’s funny, the way we draw boundaries. Mine is probably about 20 - I wouldn’t look to go below, and I’d have no interest in anyone still at school. But I can see that someone in their 30’s or even older could legitimately meet a 17 year old in somewhere like a bar, and a mutual attraction could naturally develop.

All good, but only buy them a coke.

Oh feck, there's 25 pages I haven't read yet!

 

[Artaxerxes]

All good, but only buy them a coke.

Oh feck, there's 25 pages I haven't read yet!

You have missed nothing

 

[Riklet]

Hope people are going to apologise to bimble for jumping on her earlier on in the thread. Turns out she was basically completely right.

This is a massive shitshow all cooked up by the Sun in some trolling story. We need to be more sceptical.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

I sometimes reply to work Skypes with a heart emoji.

To me it means "love that".

Not "love you"

We use them all the time - bunch of blokes in their 30s and 40s, responding to each others' messages about merge requests and code reviews using smiley faces with hearts for eyes.

 

[krtek a houby]

Hope people are going to apologise to bimble for jumping on her earlier on in the thread. Turns out she was basically completely right.

Waiting for what the s*n says about bimble before can make mind up

 

[bimble]

That’s nice of you but didn’t feel particularly jumped on Riklet . And anyway being right is the best feeling, & only improved by other people being wrong obvs.

 

[Wilf]

Sorry.

 

[Magnus McGinty]

It all has a whiff of Max Clifford who worked hand in glove with The Sun etc on these sorts of stories. And he ended up doing time for worse. They didn’t place themselves under the spotlight on that occasion

 

[krtek a houby]

S*n has blighted people's lives so much over the years. Hillsborough, underage phwoar grossness, homophobia etc

But am guessing that more than likely these days the protesters will be found outside the BBC offices, rarely the s*n?

 

[Kaka Tim]

Probably a good move. Save you being pestered by the usual suspects faux outrage. It was funny BTW

piss off

 

[PR1Berske]

S*n has blighted people's lives so much over the years. Hillsborough, underage phwoar grossness, homophobia etc

But am guessing that more than likely these days the protesters will be found outside the BBC offices, rarely the s*n?

Exactly this.

We can't go from "Fuck The Sun" to "Let's respect The Sun for their brave reporting of the truth" just because of this one story.

 

[Wilf]

Went to one in Iceland. Was great!

Isn't it a bit cold over there?

[Exits smutty mode and reassumes normal lofty tone]

 

[Orang Utan]

Went to one in Iceland. Was great!

Are they all shrunken and tiny?

 

[Ms T]

Was listening to the actual BBC news yesterday and seem to remember mention of around 200 issues a week? (or month? can't remember ) - so a lot to investigate. Many are completely unfounded, and involve people with MH/parasocial issues. The complaint sorting process is just slow and ineffective - maybe the BBC needs more people working on this. Pay Gary Lineker a bit less and hire more staff to deal with complaints?

Surely I'm not the only thinking The Sun/DM/conspiraloons are using this as a stick to beat the BBC with - there's a lot of people who think of it as biased and part of the "MSM liars/manipulators". When in fact this is a man who behaved potentially unlawfully, but it's not just a BBC problem, it's a "famous, powerful man" problem that is endemic. There's too much good on the BBC and some bad - but sadly those who hate the BBC are looking for any excuse to shut it down.

My OH used to regularly receive letters when working on the ITN newsdesk from people with MH issues complaining about X,Y,Z or saying Princess Di was murdered by Prince Philip. He said there was usually a lot of underlining!

He also once fielded a complaint while on the BBC Newsdesk from someone who wanted to complain about Lizzie Bardsley (remember her?) and her benefit payments. His conversation went something like this:

Him: But why are you calling me?
Random: Because she's just been Wife Swap and it's outrageous that she claims thousands in benefits from the taxpayer
Him: But Wife Swap isn't even on the BBC! It's on C4

 

[editor]

Please read this before posting: Basic libel law in the UK: please read before posting your latest witty comment about the ongoing BBC presenter 'scandal'

 

[andysays]

Exactly this.

We can't go from "Fuck The Sun" to "Let's respect The Sun for their brave reporting of the truth" just because of this one story.

I agree, but TBH, I haven't actually noticed anyone here doing anything like that.

 

[krtek a houby]

Are they all shrunken and tiny?

Isn't it a bit cold over there?

[Exits smutty mode and reassumes normal lofty tone]

The museum was indoors and the various phalluses were preserved, so you're going to get some kind of shrinkage. Also, iirc, there's many members on display... whales, walruses etc. One, again iirc, even had a bone in the appendage.

 

[emanymton]

Exactly this.

We can't go from "Fuck The Sun" to "Let's respect The Sun for their brave reporting of the truth" just because of this one story.

Even if the story turns out to have legs, I don't think anyone here doubts that the Sun ran the story for anything other than the shitest of motives.

 

[petee]

Isn't it a bit cold over there?

[Exits smutty mode and reassumes normal lofty tone]

we went to iceland in march and the temperature when we got off in keflavik was the same as when we got on in new york.
greenland has ice, and iceland has (some) green.
e2a, we walked past the dik museum and didn't go in. i mean really.

 

[Ms T]

It's not really about libel in this case. It's privacy laws which are the issue.