there. jake thoughts. after two speaking to us there. jake kanter. our media and arts correspondent still with us, david, this is been a huge story for the media, about the media and reflections on what we seeing for today. . i media and reflections on what we seeing for today. seeing for today. , i think most eole, seeing for today. , i think most peeple. there seeing for today. , i think most people, there are seeing for today. , i think most people, there are many - seeing for today. , i think most - people, there are many presenters whose names could ve been out there and they would ve said, well, that is something but huw edwards occupies a different place in the media landscape and i was thinking back and presented the bbc election coverage in 2019, the last time was a change in thatjob was a0 years. though these moments where the bbc become something else of discrete moments of elections, of state occasions, relevance, he was the face and name and the repres
the presenter what next? here is the news from bethan holmes. the bbc director general tim davie is to face questions for the first time since an unnamed bbc presenter was accused by the sun newspaper of paying tens of thousands of pounds to a teenager for explicit photos. mr davie will answer questions at the unveiling of the corporation s yearly report. a lawyer representing the now 20 year old at the centre of the story says the allegations are rubbish but the sun says it s seen evidence to back the claims made by the young person s mum. mortgage costs have hit their highest level for 15 years after the rate on a twp year fixed deal surpassed the peak in the aftermath of the mini budget. the average rate on such a deal is now over 6.6% a level not seen since august 2008 and the financial crisis. mps are to vote on changes to the illegal migration bill. amendments put forward by ministers include limits on the detention of unaccompanied children who will be gr
unnamed bbc presenter paid thousands to the 20 year old child for explicit images over three years. a claim that started when they were 17, a potential criminal offence. further obligations were published by the sun newspaper on saturday and on sunday, the bbc suspended a male member of staff now known to be huw edwards. 0n member of staff now known to be huw edwards. on monday, executives met with the metropolitan police which started work to assess evidence. while the 20 year old mentioned in the first the sun story denied the claims through lawyers. and other allegations of direct messaging and other allegations of direct messaging but and other allegations of direct messaging but someone - and other allegations of direct| messaging but someone under and other allegations of direct - messaging but someone under 18. on the same messaging but someone under 18. on the same day, messaging but someone under 18. on the same day, bbc messaging but someone under 18. on the same day,
media frenzy in the media has decided that this is the only thing that anybody cares about wiping the public to a lot more things. b, lat public to a lot more things. a lot of different public to a lot more things. a lot of different things public to a lot more things. a lot of different things and public to a lot more things. lat of different things and they care about them more. and david mentioned the point that one in six people knew the name, why did he know that fact because the daily mail to the paul, does to help get the name out there. they did a poorjust to get that out there. we had an inquiry a few years ago the dome of the it s me that much of a change from the second one in the inquiry is not even going ahead and the thing that gets my goat is the double standards. i mentioned the johnson thing, by anybody s standards, that should be a story but she still has friends in the app. we know that strip parties, some of these journalists were at them receiving media pu
that some of the issues that david was touching upon there, much more than edwards, it s when our media coach does innocence and perspective about a story. i m not denying that this is newsworthy and i m not denying that the sun didn t have every right to investigate the story but i do think it s as much a story about the sun as it is the bbc helping the bbc handled it well in the first 2a hours and they were determined to show that they would cover this as if it were about any other organisation and would understand their own role with international life but i think since then, there s been this feeding frenzy and the kind of cruelty to the coverage that s actually been my forcing the name out and constant debating about the changes of laws after cliff richards cliff richards. and ijust think we have to get a grip of a sense of