Stuffed shirt is stuffed

 

So professional stuffed shirt Huw Edwards turns out to have been a nonce with kiddy porn on his phone.  Well, he always looked dead behind the eyes to me.  Soullessly unlikable although it was hard to fully isolate why.  A man so bland he was often difficult to distinguish from the BBC CGI augmented set which may be why he was chief borer.  Of course BBC newsreaders have always been pompous but at least Richard Dimbleby gave us the spaghetti tree and David had a few jokes and even Nicholas Witchell sat on the odd lesbian.  Huw took being dull to a whole new level.  A man so seemingly devoid of personality he sounded like a cross between Marvin the Paranoid Android and Harry Secombe during his Highway days... I often wondered if he was actually dead and been brought digitally back to life by AI like a modern day Max Headroom. Perhaps what made him a shoe in for the job was that he was suppressing so much of his true nature that there was nothing left but a blank sheet or an empty suit. After all who's the best person not to make a big deal of the presence of Prince Andrew at a coronation?  Now we have the DG doing the weknewbutwedidntknow interview.  One has to wonder if Huw has something on someone else given how long Huw's been huwmongously overpaid not to be on our screens since his previous seedy scandal.  It is surely time to stop paying these stuffed shirts huwmongous sums of money and get some AI Newsreaders in.  They couldn't be less lifeless and soulless than Huw.  I mean, you could get better newsreaders selecting people at random and appointing them jury service style.  Id always thought he should write an autobiography called "Huw Edwards, Complete Anchor" but in the light of current events it doesn't sound like he can even ...

The BBC continues to defend continuing to pay perverts like Edwards whilst they are awaiting trial on the grounds they have a duty of care but whilst it is true he could take them to an Employment Tribunal if found Not Guilty... which he wasn't... You don't actually need the same burden of proof for a Tribunal as a Criminal Trial ...it would be enough to argue he had violated his contract on the balance of probabilities.  We see similar nonsense in the police who keep their staff on wages but "suspended" for up to a year for trials after which they're found guilty.  Perhaps a solution would be to employ all newsreaders as outside contractors, then their contracts could be easily ended and if they're so employable they'd be free to also gig at ITV or SKY ...

Just to prove it's open to criticism here's a Twitter post the BBC have blocked comments on...

BBC not aware of 'deeply disturbing' specifics, says director general https://t.co/yxV1QhvmoV

— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) August 1, 2024