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MVBoro said:
Everybody watches porn!
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I think it was bit more intimate than just web-based porn but, yeah, there's a question about how much worse it is. Its still just watching a virtual stranger on a computer screen and knocking one out.

(For quite a large cumulative sum of money).
 
Edwards was crazy with his actions (like Schofield and numerous others no doubt), but clearly very complicated personal life.
 
The_Tiler said:
He seemed fine last week presenting the news. Now he's been caught out, he suddenly has mental health issues.

Sorry, dont believe a word. Play the mental health card, get a bit of sympathy and hope it all goes away. Same as Schofield.

The bloke has done nothing wrong in the eyes of the police but if anyone thinks a 61 year old bloke asking for dik pics from a 17 year old man is ok, then give your head a shake.
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Where does it say its a man?
 
If he has technically only spoken to the boy when he was 17 then he has done nothing legally wrong and the sun need to **** off with this coverage this is getting. His marriage will be over but he certainly shouldn’t lose his job and career over it . It may be morally shady (affairs are shady ) but they’re not illegal

Schofield was different . He actually was speaking to the boy before the age of consent which can be seen as grooming . There is scope for what schofield did being illegal

It’s rich for the sun to take this F***ing stance too when they were happy to show topless pics of barely legal women in their papers . They didn’t stop doing that willingly either
 
Steer said:
This is a modern day lynching, thanks to the Sun newspaper. Police say that there is nothing for them to investigate, yet the trial by media has been led by that absolutely awful publication. And now the guy is in hospital with a nervous breakdown.

This coming hot on the heels on Philip Schofield and Caroline Flack. Has the media not learnt anything?
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Spot on. We can have individual views on morality. We set collective parameters in law. That’s the test. If there is no crime this witch-hunt is way OTT. And still, whatever we pretend about equality, this would never have been the story m in opposite sex relationships. I mean, Murdoch isn’t exactly averse to younger women.
 
FishofContemplation said:
Spot on. We can have individual views on morality. We set collective parameters in law. That’s the test. If there is no crime this witch-hunt is way OTT. And still, whatever we pretend about equality, this would never have been the story m in opposite sex relationships. I mean, Murdoch isn’t exactly averse to younger women.
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If this is legal I hope huw Edward’s sues the sun
 
Murdoch has been quoted talking to Johnson, in the recent past, to "get rid" of the BBC.
To a propaganda, self-interested, narcissistic moron, Murdoch must be happy stirring schit for his own ends.
I`m not judging what`s alleged to have happened - but its no coincidence all this distraction has taken place at the same time as more important things are effecting ordinary people.
Added to that, we have an ex-Prime Minister who should have been arrested and chucked in the cells..........but...
 
More than a sniff of homophobia about both the reporting and some of the comments on this thread unfortunately. Not sure there’d be the same moral outrage (or the use of words such as ‘perverted’) about an older bloke and their relationship(s) with younger women.

Also, just for the record, can we be absolutely clear that you don’t get admitted to hospital simply by “playing the mental health card”. There are enough stigmas about mental health issues in this country without people adding to them by accusing people of using them as an excuse.
 
Steer said:
This is a modern day lynching, thanks to the Sun newspaper. Police say that there is nothing for them to investigate, yet the trial by media has been led by that absolutely awful publication. And now the guy is in hospital with a nervous breakdown.

This coming hot on the heels on Philip Schofield and Caroline Flack. Has the media not learnt anything?
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Oh please hes had a breakdown because hes been caught with his pants down
 
The Card Cheat said:
Maybe. But if I'm being honest, and maybe we can all summon up the empathy to do the same, if the worst and stupidest things I'd ever done were suddenly and unexpectedly exposed to the world, I think I might have a nervous breakdown too.
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Your probably right. Ive never been a fan of him so i find it harder to feel empathy for him than say someone like george michael or hugh grant who had similar embarrassing sex scandals. Its his kids i feel really sorry for most
 
The Card Cheat said:
Maybe. But if I'm being honest, and maybe we can all summon up the empathy to do the same, if the worst and stupidest things I'd ever done were suddenly and unexpectedly exposed to the world, I think I might have a nervous breakdown too.
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Exactly this. This has been the number one news story in the UK for a week, and however you look at it morally it is HIGHLY embarrassing for him. The idea that it’s all an act to garner sympathy is a bit simplistic, most people when they’re ashamed of something will try to get people to empathise with them and go easy on them at least.

What should he do instead? Brazenly front it up and put out a statement saying everyone in the UK watches porn and only fans and that what’s he’s done isn’t really any worse and he’ll be back on air tomorrow night. You’ve got to be a pretty bold individual to do that. I can think of a recent PM who might go down that road…
 
The only ones i feel sorry for in this are his wife and kids. Lots of people have mental health issues but they don’t behave in such a deplorable manner as Huw Edwards has. He alone made that decision to pay a teenager for sexually explicit photos for his own gratification, presumably without a thought for the pain his family would suffer if he got caught and found out. A very selfish and perverse individual it seems. He is finished as a presenter on national television, and rightly so in my opinion. Harsh some might say, but people in such high profile positions have certain standards of decency and morality to uphold and this man has failed on so many levels.
 
Funky_Chicken said:
The only ones i feel sorry for in this are his wife and kids. Lots of people have mental health issues but they don’t behave in such a deplorable manner as Huw Edwards has. He alone made that decision to pay a teenager for sexually explicit photos for his own gratification, presumably without a thought for the pain his family would suffer if he got caught and found out. A very selfish and perverse individual it seems. He is finished as a presenter on national television, and rightly so in my opinion. Harsh some might say, but people in such high profile positions have certain standards of decency and morality to uphold and this man has failed on so many levels.
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You have a point but lots of people have affairs and one night stands and don't consider the consequences for their families , or don't expect to get caught, and they wouldn't get this kind of treatment as a result. This wasn't even really an affair, probably way more low level than that in a lot of ways (unless they were of an illegal age). No idea why he sent photos of himself identifying who he was mind.

I know someone who slotted a 19 year old intern from work just the other month while his wife was pregnant, same age as me (early 40s), apart from some guilt he's faced zero consequences from it so far, both professionally and personally. Whilst wholly condemnable, I don't think he should be driven to suicide over it, which could be the risk for some of these more high profile cases.

He has obviously let himself down and there will be consequences but I don't feel outraged by it, folk make mistakes. In fact, I'm bored of the story now (though admittedly I reopened this thread out of choice).

His TV career is toast, the rest is his business now.
 
atypical_boro said:
You have a point but lots of people have affairs and one night stands and don't consider the consequences for their families , or don't expect to get caught, and they wouldn't get this kind of treatment as a result. This wasn't even really an affair, probably way more low level than that in a lot of ways (unless they were of an illegal age). No idea why he sent photos of himself identifying who he was mind.

I know someone who slotted a 19 year old intern from work just the other month while his wife was pregnant, same age as me (early 40s), apart from some guilt he's faced zero consequences from it so far, both professionally and personally. Whilst wholly condemnable, I don't think he should be driven to suicide over it, which could be the risk for some of these more high profile cases.

He has obviously let himself down and there will be consequences but I don't feel outraged by it, folk make mistakes. In fact, I'm bored of the story now (though admittedly I reopened this thread out of choice).

His TV career is toast, the rest is his business now.
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Yes but most of those people behaving in a debouched and perverse manor don’t have a job presenting the news on national television. You can’t masquerade on TV as prim and proper whilst having a sordid personal life - the two just don’t go together. I hate The Sun too, and they certainly have gone after this story with the intention of damaging the BBC, but they for once have got this one right - Edwards is a sordid individual who shouldn’t appear on TV screens again.
 
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