the person at the centre of the Huw Edwards scandal talks to the Mirror
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- it is a sad story about the power and contempt of the media and the strange double standards in the treatment and protection of stars.
🛒 Explore my unique, fun political merch at our new store! Click the link below.
etsy.com/shop/... !
Join me, Professor Tim Wilson, as I dissect today's headlines, offering my insights and perspectives on the latest in British politics and global affairs. With a keen eye and a bit of wit, we delve into the news that shapes our world.
🔔 Subscribe to our channel to stay up-to-date with my latest reactions and analyses. Join our community of informed viewers who value depth, nuance, and a sprinkle of humour in their news consumption.
🎥 Must-Watch: Explore My Most Popular Video Ever (5.5m+ views) on How To Write A Good Essay: • How to write a good essay
🌍 My Shorts provide concise insights and reactions to keep you informed: / @professortimwilson
This channel serves as your go-to source for thoughtful and sometimes slightly satirical commentary on current events, political shifts, and the stories that matter. From deep dives into the mechanics of the UK government to global political dynamics and everything in between, we cover it all with the aim of enlightening, entertaining, and encouraging informed discussions.
#News #PoliticalCommentary #TalkTV #GBNews #DailyMirror #WorldPolitics #GuidoFawkes #DailyMail #TalkTV
Anyone funding the BBC should reconsider. Many more options out there.
I feel Edwards and the BBC did a deal for him to plead guilty. Otherwise a queue of people would have had tales to tell in court about his behaviour and what was overlooked due to his seniority. As you say Professor all because he could read from an autocue.
I’m very sad to say this but I intend to cancel my TV license. The BBC has become bloated, over paid people who are arrogant and incompetent.
It’s very sad because for a long time the BBC was the best broadcaster in the world.
But those days are in the past now .
Well done you, it couldn’t have happened soon enough! They are like modern communism socialism and satanism rolled into one! Sickening!!!
I’ve not paid mine for about 5 years!
Exactly what they are.
I despise them all.
Perhaps it is a general shift and not specific to the BBC. Wikileaks allowed to press to become bloated with self importance neglecting the reasons they are given so many freedoms to begin with.
@@ruprect8858 this kind of thing is not specific to the BBC.
Just so people know. When Edwards was arrested, the BBC were instructed by the police to keep it quiet while they were carrying out a thorough investigation. It is standard practice to keep someone on full paid leave in that situation. As letting it be publicly known would undermine their investigation and open the door to Edwards claiming a future trial was prejudiced against him. However, the real issue is the inappropriate behavior he engaged in towards various junior staff members over the years. That went without consequence.
Well said…I imagine what’s in the media about the Edwards story is not the half of it. The way the BBC continued to pay him, protected him (and gave him his 40k pay rise) when they knew full well he’d been arrested for the most serious CP should lead to the BBC’s downfall. People will stop paying the licence fee in disgust. Even the initial Sun story last year about him paying the teenage boy for obscene images and DM-ing teenage boys and young BBC staff would surely have been enough to fire him for bringing BBC into disrepute. There must have been a morals clause in his contract.. there must have been !! But they didn’t take these options …..tells you everything you need to know!!
He got back the £40,000, he paid out for his predatory trills. Profit
I'm, generally speaking, a supporter of the BBC, but this episode has really undermined their credibility for me.
Concerning their credibility, it is amazing that you needed THAT to have a negative opinion of the BBC ! Their various unsufferable and very sustained biases were apparently not enough for you right ??...
Then do the right thing and cancel your TV Licence, how anyone can continue to support the BBC after this
is just plain sick.
It took a while but at least you got there in the end! Better late than never!!!
It's not The Sky
It's not the ITV
It's not the channel 4
Please stop calling it The BBC.
Please stop putting them on a pedestal they don't deserve to be on.
and the saville or rolf harris stuff hadnt?? i mean theyve a history of this sorta thing
Well done.
Thank you so much for this, so true. I have been a safeguarding officer in a primary school for years. Sometimes we would have the bbc come in to show the children some show or cartoon of other. So they could have feedback. I could never get over how not very bright they were. Having been involved in creating & promoting safeguarding policies and ensuring they are adhered to the BBC has show the truth of who they are. They don’t have a clue when it comes to safeguarding & child protection. They don’t even know where to start.thanks again Tim, you always have great information
I agree standards, accountability & measuring risk crucial for children & vulnerable adults. But as you know this has to come from the top! A culture has to be created to protect everyone.
Well done! 👍
I value the BBC. It’s very sad that these kinds of revelations just give ammunition to those who want to bring it down for financial and political reasons. There needs to be a major overhaul of the management.
Spot on
Started my stop watch for the next scandal.
What a disgrace providing protection for individuals who BBC know engage the worst of depravity- BBC show zero compassion for the vulnerable who abused by their employee!
Old boys' network all the way up.
I had no idea one of the charges was to with making such terrible content. This is as scary as it gets and yet the BBCs standards of deleting him is just ridiculous imo.
I subscribe to the BBC for their investigative journalism and podcasts, music, and world service. But you are quite right. BBC is loosing credibility. Media needs a looking into. Media journalist are there to hold those to account, to report. Not to be a client for establishment or with connections with big businesses. Whistle blowers should be protected by law.
The BBC has been a home for very strange people for years, how many more are still
to be found out ?
My concience is clear, i don't pay them a penny, if enough people cancel their TV Licence
then they might get the message, if Starmer allows it to happen !
You're not kidding, starting with it's founder until today.
Home for people with strange behaviour??? I say the BBC have been home for PEDOFILES!!!!
Not sure how sweeping this scandal under the carpet would be a good thing for BBC's reputation--it has done irreparable damage to it, in fact. Huw was obviously favored by the powers that be, who tried to hush it up knowing full well it was wrong.
@@Splash-nr8ot Who actually knew what and when?
@@peter.marshall well, the story first broke two years ago when whistle-blowers notified the BBc, Edwards went on "sick leave" one years ago when he was exposed so thats a fair length of time.
They have been sweeping so much under the carpet that it is spilling out now but this time they won’t be getting away with their disgusting behaviour so easily!
@@steveturner6770 Yes. I appreciate that. However, after the first story broke there was no evidence to support any charges. So technically he was in the clear. The latest turn of events was last November (2023) when Edwards was arrested. He was not formally charged until June 2024 so up until then the BBC as his employer was in a tricky position.
@@firestar7774 This issue might bring down Tim Davie, but the BBC will survive. Regrettably, it is not the only organisation guilty of ignoring whistle-blowers. It happens everywhere. Just look at the NHS contaminated blood scandal to name but one.
Hi Tim .i hope your not insinuating that the bbc protects and harbours pleados ,for that to be true they would have to have a history of doing it before 🤔🤔😂😂😂
Kind of crazy how last year it just seemed like he was paying some young lad for teasing pics, then it kinds of goes away because no huge story from a criminal standpoint - then like now he's admitting to having some of the worst content you can have and pleads
There is no point leaving any comments, Professor Tim Wilson does not respond and I doubt if he evens reads them. He comes across as being well informed but the reality is that he is completely out of touch with the ordinary people of Britain.
Absolute Twaddle. He often replies.
yes, I am sorry you think that Rupert
@@ProfessorTimWilsonHello Professor, would you please say 'Hello!' to this lonely Dutch guy (me), who is going to visit Bath + Bristol + Stonehenge + Cardiff coming week? With my new passport? (EU ID card not permitted). Just to show that you read all relevant comments...
By the by, we have a lot of these harassment scandals on Dutch tv too. Not always sexual, but being rude, intimidating, and creating a climate of fear. Part of the workflow, I suppose. And do you follow Michael Lambert?
@@ProfessorTimWilson It would be nice to have an opportunity to discuss some of these things with you. If you were on a soap box in Speakers Corner, we would all have an opportunity to engage, instead we can only listen, which is far less interesting.
So you click bites the Professor then? Fair dues !
Where are all those Edwards supporters now..
The BBC has a global reach can’t help but wonder what other depraved individuals are on their staff in far away lands, sounds like the Catholic institution with its global reach moving their depraved from one vulnerable community to the next- surely the heads of these institutions must face accountability even posthumously.
Good point. Cover up.
Hmmm! This is partially revising some of my own considered position. Huw Edward's unfortunate lack of judgement has caused a great amount of sadness. And this has put the BBC not in good circumstances.
It reminds me of the latest scandal of the Metro police. Lessons learned etc
"Abuse it, .. and you will lose it." .. in this case, of a media company, getting too high & mighty .. I do think there's a principle here, that does work things out, though perhaps in too long of a time, that what we would wish for.
Tim, .. you also mentioned the double standard of policing actions, in the UK .. I sure hope that those reports are untrue, .. but, there's quite a few voices, saying that, .. sadly, it is true.
Fun Fact
The BBC barred Jonny Rotten for outing Jimmy Saville .
They knew but went for the whistleblower .
Except what you said isn't quite factual, is it?
Even if he gets time the most he will be given is 6 months.
I got rid of my TV years ago. It's a vile institution.
Yeah, what with the internet being such an oasis of detached enlightenment...
@@martinradcliffe4798 I never mentioned the Internet.
@@Greenmanure62 And you're not even on it!
Tim do we know the age of these both young people when this all happened. Was it during work or outside. Just trying to some facts.
police found indecent photos of a 7 year old on his computer, that says it all about him ,how long its being going for, probably a very long time, that statue bbc broadcast house really does do the bbc justice
Since we have known, now, for some time that it was a young man, is there any reason to refer to him as “they” or “the young person” - particularly as you slip up several times and refer to him as “him”.
It would seem to me that he had "form", as an employee, prior to the first revelations being brought to public attention. I suspect that those less senior might well have been disciplined, even fired, a lot sooner for such serial misbehaviour. The BBC is not the only employer or organisation, whether public or private, to pay lip service to its own "whistleblower" and "dignity and respect" employment policies, to name but two, especially when it comes to complaints about those in senior positions from those in less senior ones, and especially when the former are considered to be indispensable or more difficult to replace than the latter. In many cases, such supposed protective policies often appear, therefore, to be little more than cynical window dressing and "box ticking" exercises rather than an honest commitment to professional integrity.
I saw this interview & the Huw @ the station vids. I think the problem is the initial media reports trying to make out as though this is a one off incident. But what we are finding out is that this is a serial pattern of behaviour. The director of the sun (I don't read it) she has said that they have a lot of evidence that Huws behaviour was of a serial nature & there are many other victims to come out. It will all come out in the end. But OMG there are many more Huw Bottom picks out there, not nice to see when I am trying to have a nice cup of tea early in the morning. Far too much cellulite, not a pretty sight.
Apart from journalists on location, showing the viewer this or that. Don't need a studio, just choose a voice actor, on a voice actors wage, and take the pedestal away. Radio does perfectly fine, without having to see everything, and maybe someone who can do sign language. Other than that?
The bbc is a example of every news organisation
Understandably, the father had, shall we say, a slight nark on!
An old liberal pleading that people should be treated with respect....oh! the irony!
I think this young man's story be taken with a pinch of salt. He was the one who produced those disgusting photographs, he was charged with producing thousands of illegal photographs in March this year. He was only given a 1 year suspended sentence. He is a paedophile and should be given no access to the press.
Photographs Edwards paid for and were found in his possession?
Absolutely. He admitted making contact with Edwards and another personality completely out of the blue. He instigated the whole affair acting as an agent provocateur. Likely to be a put up job from the start. It then escalated.
@@andybeans5790 Yes and Edwards should face justice,but a convicted paedophile does not warrant any contact with the press to tell his sordid tale.
@@peter.marshall thanks for elucidating! 👍
Check your facts different person
The young person instigated the whole episode. He admits to contacting Edwards and another personality completely out of the blue! Was it a put-up job?
He MADE Edward’s download that filth?..enlighten us…
@@santorini8423 Did I say or suggest that? No. But clearly his contact with Edwards had consequences. We don't know how the party who did send those images to Edwards first made contact with him or how. There is no suggestion that that was instigated by Edwards either. Perhaps the youngster had other "contacts" as well?
Your argument is the equivalent of girls in short skirts are 'asking for it'.
Edwards pleaded guilty in court to sharing Category A child abuse images to a WhatsApp group, that is the worst kind and at a minimum means it was images of penetrative sex with a child. We don't know, and may never know, how many children were involved or whether the original guy was even one of the ones shown. Whatever the truth, Edwards is a deviant that deserves no sympathy.
You are the epitome of woke snobbery