Dear oh dear. The news that ex-BBC presenter Huw Edwards has pleaded guilty to making indecent images of children has come as a shock to a nation which spent years watching the veteran TV star fronting the public service broadcaster’s biggest stories. And it will serve as a warning to those journalists who were rather quick to make sweeping judgements on Edwards’ innocence. Mr S has been looking back at some past remarks made by a certain group of stars – and it’s rather awkward for all involved…
First was the ever-online Owen Jones. The Graun columnist slammed the idea that Edwards might have done anything wrong, tweeting furiously that Edwards was a ‘vulnerable man’, and that ‘we know now there was no criminality’. The moderators of Twitter/X may beg to differ…

Up next is News Agents podcaster and ex-BBC man Lewis Goodall, who posted a rather long Twitter thread on 12 July 2023 about the coverage of the Edwards story.
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