Huw Edwards would have been sacked over ‘abhorrent’ images of children, BBC says
https://news.sky.com/story/huw-edwards-would-have-been-sacked-over-abhorrent-images-of-children-bbc-says-13188207
Posted by JimJonesdrinkkoolaid
Huw Edwards would have been sacked over ‘abhorrent’ images of children, BBC says
https://news.sky.com/story/huw-edwards-would-have-been-sacked-over-abhorrent-images-of-children-bbc-says-13188207
Posted by JimJonesdrinkkoolaid
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Hmm, their track record says different. Their words don’t match their actions.
They keep saying this, but they knew about it in November and didn’t. Also, historically they covered up allegations, so their actions don’t match their words…
They knew about it for nine months and we’re still fucking paying him, 450k per year and he got a salary increase as well.
He got paid more than most people earn in a decade for not working whilst arrested for child porn, paid for by taxpayer license fee money.
The BBC is a monstrosity. How the fuck can they do this after everything that happened with Jimmy Saville, yet again closing ranks to protect paedos.
I suspect they kept it under wraps until a labour government came along as no way labour will enforce any kind of change at the BBC.
Not generally been in favour of abolishing the license fee but it needs to happen – why the fuck should people pay for this under threat of prosecution?
Its statement came after Edwards pleaded guilty on Wednesday at Westminster Magistrates’ Court to three counts of making indecent images of children.
He accessed indecent images of children as young as seven on WhatsApp between December 2020 and August 2021, which police said were sent to him by a convicted paedophile.
That is just absolutely revolting to read. Forever known as a disgusting stain in our history.
Stewart hall, Jimmy saville and Rolf Harris, and even Philip Schofield would point to the contrary.
I’m not saying the BBC is absolutely riddled with nonces, but they have past form in employing a fair few of em….
After the wagon circling and the aggressive defence last year, to learn that during the later part of the year people knew he had been arrested on these kind of charges is damaging.
People can make an argument that each step was correct, but it also plays into people impression of the establishment looking after its own and doing the utmost to protect its mates until the last minute.
You can make an argument against it, but had this been someone unpopular with the media insiders, you know there would not have been the aggressive defence last July and the actual state of affairs would have leaked.
BBC have learned morning since Jimmy Savile have they
Are people not jumping to conclusions here?
Surely this latest charge is just referring to the pictures from the young guy on Grindr before he was 18.
Is it actually child abuse images in the worst “conventional” sense?
Edit: who and why are people downvoting this genuine question?
STOP 👏 PAYING 👏 THE 👏 LICENCE 👏 FEE
Yeah. Just like Jimmy Saville. Piss off BBC, we k ow who you protect.
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Surely the JS posters in his room were a give away, no?
I’ve got a bad feeling that more will come out about this, to me it raises questions as to why he was getting pics over winter lockdown – almost as though he’d previously been getting his fix in person but had to resort to pics due to social distancing
Makes u wonder how many nonces are out there in public positions…hiding and operating in plain sight
A slightly tangential point but has anyone noticed a deterioration in BBCs news output because this guy wasn’t around? Was half a million of productive output actually lost?
Honestly maybe it could be an inflexion to cut all “media” salaries by 10x.
I wonder if Huw Edwards is the ‘untouchable’ star which Mark Williams-Thomas (or whatever his name is) alluded to previously.
Looking at recent headlines. Is it really so hard to not be a disgusting, perverted piece of shit?
I’m glad I stopped paying for a TV licence years ago. Still get threatening letters each year