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He doesn't work for the BBC...
Explains why he deleted most of his anti Edwards stuff.
I am sure GB news will be dedicating some time to him to prove how balanced they are.
He became famous for being named as the guy that bullied Craoline Flack into suicide
I suspect precisely no one in his industry is surprised at these revelations
The Huw Edwards thing probably had a lot of media types twitchy about their own indiscretions
He's a shill, that's all anyone needs to know.
Our right wing media is a grim mix of hypocrisy and criminality. As a country we seemed to be hooked on its output and its ****ed us over
Is this one of those where we need to keep googling Dan Wootton catfishing scandal or something like that so it make it more prominent?
Dan's OK. Martin Branning on the other hand sounds like a wrong'un.
As a country we seemed to be hooked on its output
I know you are talking more broadly about the Mail etc. and I totally agree, but nobody's watching Dan Wootton's output on GB News. Compared to Huw Edwards or anyone else on mainstream TV.
nobody’s watching Dan Wootton’s output on GB News.
According to the latest figures, their audience share is only slightly less than Sky News, and more than half of the BBC News Channel. No, it's not many folk compared to BBC1, but it's not entirely insignificant.
But individuals like Wooton were created in NOTW and given credibility by columns in the mail
Easily a far greater scandal than Huw Edwards. Though I do not expect the same feeding frenzy from the tabloids who attacked Mr Edwards with such fervour.
In fact I doubt they'll run it and if they do it will be a tiny piece buried deep in the paper.
He's really not the same calibre of celebrity as Huw at all though, so do temper your expectations in that regard.
I am very much looking forward to this week's Popbitch anyway 😀
100% odds on he knows who's been diddling the books or lady's/men of the night and has it in book.
I am very much looking forward to this week’s Popbitch anyway
I think they've had Dan Wootton's number for a long time...
I think they’ve had Dan Wootton’s number for a long time…
But now they'll spill more of the beans. They always do after a story breaks.
100% odds on he knows who’s been diddling the books or lady’s/men of the night and has it in book.
100% this. He will have dirt aplenty on half the newsrooms who you might expect to cover his fall from grace.
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He doesn’t work for the BBC…
Bingo. There's a longstanding and ongoing effort from the right wing media (which is already over represented in this country) to take down the BBC by any means necessary, as its balanced output presents a threat to their swivel eyed demagoguery
100% odds on he knows who’s been diddling the books or lady’s/men of the night and has it in book.
Apparently it's mostly on a hard drive...
I am very much looking forward to this week’s Popbitch anyway
#Metoo
Guardian are now reporting the general story.
Must be a fault on the heils site that they havent yet.
I wish we could go back to the days of actual news rather than all this idiocy.
Why can we not keep all the BS to Hello magazine, the masses have had enough of the opium.
This place is becoming a more like Tattle.life or Mumsnet, each week.
Apparently Mr Wootton had deleted all his tweets and is claiming that he said not a jot about Huw Edwards, which is a bit of an odd statement on the biggest story from over the last couple of weeks, but there you go.
Twitter cached isnt producing much, but im not a member so i guess my search capability is not as good.
What is interesting though is the entire past two weeks have mysteriously disappeared from the daily mail archive for July 2023.
Im sure there must be some way of accessing this deleted tweets/stories etc.
Is that true? That's so hilarious!
I wish we could go back to the days of actual news rather than all this idiocy.
Extortion is a serious crime.
BBC News - Dan Wootton: GB News host admits 'errors of judgement'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66240304
Oh dear oh dear
Plenty of popcorn being consumed at chez Schofield right now, I'd wager.
Looks like the chickens are finally coming home to roost for the GB news beast
i genuinely don’t usually like to see anyone kicked when they are down but for this sickening little weasel I’ll make an exception
He's got nothing to be smug about.
Mixed feelings on this. Sure, he's a horrible person by all accounts and one who has shown no compassion to others in 'the same' sort of situation; in that respect - live by the sword, die by the sword.
On the other - I don't want to descend to that level. If we honestly want media to behave better, surely we have to live those values ourselves first. Or else no-one has any moral authority. Let the police / employers investigate and act.
I know, even as i write that I want to add 'and monkeys might fly out of my butt' to it.....
Mixed feelings on this. Sure, he’s a horrible person by all accounts and one who has shown no compassion to others in ‘the same’ sort of situation; in that respect – live by the sword, die by the sword.
On the other – I don’t want to descend to that level. If we honestly want media to behave better, surely we have to live those values ourselves first. Or else no-one has any moral authority. Let the police / employers investigate and act.
I agree with the sentiment of this, but until the media scum get a really strong taste of their own medecine, nothing will change, and if he has to be the sacrificial lamb, oh dear, how sad, never mind.
The biggest crime that has been committed here is that the OP's use of exclamation marks tricked me into thinking Wooton had announced an intention to run for office
Reported to the mods for exclamation abuse
It's really difficult to think of a more deserving candidate TBH.
And this will still only get a fraction of the attention that Huw or Scofe did.
On the other – I don’t want to descend to that level.
What level?
Reporting on potentially criminal behaviour? Or the internet pile-on?
If the latter, where does that start? Us commenting on a MTB forum? Or people directing abuse at him on Twitter?
While I do think twitter etc has led to many like ones that have been horrendous and clearly directed and vindictive, I do feel like karma is in play here.
Soz.
What level?
Reporting on potentially criminal behaviour? Or the internet pile-on?
If the latter, where does that start? Us commenting on a MTB forum? Or people directing abuse at him on Twitter?
Factual reporting has to be OK, although as we saw last week 'facts' are not always above query, how they are presented can lead to further extrapolation that is absolutely deliberate. I hate the 'ah, but I didn't *actually* say that' defence (eg; has sent them £35K in return for sexual images since they were 17) DW is being investigated by police and employers, AFAIK. That's what should be reported.
The internet pile-on is the bit that troubles me. Commenting on here - depends; reporting that he has been accused or is being investigated is factual; while I understand absolutely the karma angle - and it would be wrong for me to say I don't have a bit of that righteous anger in me too -that's where we start to cross the line.
Of course it hasn't escaped me that those many of those that were saying that HE should be left alone to sort himself out are now demanding DW is sacked and prosecuted, whereas those that were all over HE last week are now demanding time and space. It's double standards on both sides, driven by politics but when the right wing and tories are actually on the moral high ground this time - the LW / woke should be congratulating them for realising their error and reminding them of it whenever they slip back down.
An eye for an eye makes us all blind.
I've resisted the urge to give him grief on social media precisely because of the above, but I dunno if it makes me a bad person for thinking it.
I’m calling him out not for being a sex beast (unproven thus far), but for being a horrible, hypocritical, evil little ghoul who’s actioned have resulted in untold misery for hundreds of people, and whose direct actions have resulted in one young lady killing herself
I genuinely hope he ends up in prison
It’s double standards on both sides, driven by politics but when the right wing and tories are actually on the moral high ground this time
They arent. The moral highground would be living up to their own alleged standards.
As for reminding them when they slip.
You only need to look the tories lecturing the bbc on investigating potential sex offenders in the same week the standards commission reported on Pincher and Essex police announced further investigation into one of their former mps.
Plus of course there is the one who still has the whip but is under investigation for rape amongst other things.
The second part of the acticle is published
News International, GB News & the Daily Mail in hiring a copper-bottomed ****hole shocker.
There's been allegations about Wootton's behaviour for years. However, we've seen some high profile politicians tweet (and occasionally delete) their support for him, in spite of this being an early stage of investigations.
Susan Hall, the morbidly flatulent Tory candidate for Mayor of London has been at it too.
morbidly flatulent
Lolz
Frankly, anyone in the ‘media’ who’s been reduced to the point that the only place they can find employment is on GBNews deserves everything they’ve got coming, because they’ve been dishing it out to people like Lily Allen, Megan Markle, etc, while being vile, repulsive and reprehensible scumbags themselves. I’m looking at you, Piers Morgan, asswipe that you are.
The Sun, The Mail, GBNews and everything that Murdoch’s grubby fingers have touched need to be razed to the ground and the remains treated as toxic waste for the next century. Fox News, too. 😖
Oh, and I don’t have any idea who Dan Wootton is. Or Harry Hawk, or Uncle Tom Cobley for that matter.
The Mail has gone woke.😂 The karma boomerang is incoming.👍Cancelly Woke ****ers 🤪
Karma Boomerang hopefully rapidly followed by Dildo of Consequence
Dildo of Consequence
Lol, I'm nicking that!
Hopefully Darth Putin's interpretation will apply to the Dildo of Consequence and it doesn't arrive lubed.
Dildo of Consequence
Hi, can you send picks to notdanwootton@honest.gov
Dildo of Consequence
Rarely arrives lubed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66940513
He's with Fox on the naughty step.
I bet the "free speech" GBeebies viewers are in a right froth.😂
Frankly, this should have been the last of GBN's concerns as far as suspending him but here we are...
Time for a moment of 'quiet reflection', a la Dan.
Like two particularly puerile and obnoxious teenage boys giggling in their bedroom
I know GeeBeebies has an audience of about 23 people, but still.,.. to think that was an acceptable standard of broadcasting?
The funny thing is that the producer notes, published by Fox in a fit of pique at getting suspended, show that the discussion is basically pre-scripted, even down to the jibe about not wanting to have a relationship with an 'extreme feminist'.
So even their free speech is basically just following a set of pre-written talking points.
OFCOM are toothless and will do nowt, but this is clear evidence that it wasn't just a rogue guest, or a rogue presenter, but apparently the channel agenda.
By all accounts, Fox has been binned by the channel as well as being Wootton suspended. This, together with his [alleged] use of alternate identities to try and solicit nudes from co-workers should get him sacked.
Hopefully OFCOM will grow a pair.
GB News have apologised, neither of the culprits have.
How many of these kind of problems does GB News have to deal with before Ofcom decide they don’t deserve a license?
Wootton tried to apologise on Twitter. Part of the reason for Fox's little meltdown, and the release of a message exchange where they giggled about the whole thing.
For the first time ever, I've just looked at the GBN website. What a mess.. But more interestingly,i can't find a single mention of the two suspensions. It's like it hasn't happened.
The cynic in me wonders if this was planned by Fox so he could claim he was cancelled. This way he can move to the lucrative online grift of bashing the main stream media, peddling conspiracy theories and selling a few supplements.
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Isn’t he already on the grift-express? I guess that whilst being cancelled isn’t a requirement it is helpful. And you have to be a proper headbanger to be cancelled by some headbangers.
****ing bell end.
And Dan Wootton is also a ****ing bell end.
He’s started that already.
Part of the reason for Fox’s little meltdown, and the release of a message exchange where they giggled about the whole thing.
thats the funniest part: how quickly theyve turned on each other, quite a few of fox's other right wing grifter chums been quick to condemn them both too, it must he a genuinely nasty place to work with all those thunderc*nts
The journalist in question has raised a couple of very good points regarding this.
Number one she is getting threats which should never happen and secondly she's mentioned how many Tories actually work for GBeebies. Given that this appears to be approved editorial content.
It was worth listening to the pubcast today, just to get Ava's take on the whole thing.
The question I have though is would GBeebies even be going through the motions of disciplining their bought and paid for gobshites if Paul Marshall wasn't trying to buy the Telegraph?
I think their trying (cackhandedly) to apply a veneer of responsibility and governance to sneak their next propaganda acquisition past the likes if Offcom and the media culture and sport select committee. But then that starts to sound like the sort of conspiracy toss that GBeebies viewers would lap up, if you changed the protagonists...
Calling it GBeebies is a massive insult to CBeebies.🙂
Yeah, but they have very similar programming - 'In The Far Right Garden' , 'BalaTory', 'Bigot-ton' and of course, 'Achtung, Feind hört mit!- nauts.'
Isn’t he already on the grift-express? I guess that whilst being cancelled isn’t a requirement it is helpful.
Of course he is, he no longer has an acting career, so what else is going to earn him a living? Sad, really, he was a great character in ‘Lewis’.
Calling it GBeebies is a massive insult to CBeebies.🙂
Yeah but you know how Racist Iggle Piggle was, and it was rumoured that Dipsy was very anti-trans...
CBeebies is doing more for progressive thought every day than GBeebies could ever hope to counteract in a year.
That's why they hate it so much.
The FT called GB News an "outrage factory". That's their modus operandi, every now and again, it'll go a bit off course, so they'll just re-set for a bit, and then carry on as before. Might not be with Fox or Wootton, but there are dozens just like them that'll take their places.
I don't think they are an outrage factory in the sense that the FT suggested, I am sure the financial backers wouldn't be displeased if they can also turn a profit from it, however I think their MO is to feed a right wing populist narrative into the mainstream media. The billionaire backers make much much more from the political changes this type of media "seeding machine" creates downstream rather than the direct monetisation.
Yeah no way that shit-show could be profitable at source.
Don't understimate how easily 'normal' people are sucked in by this hogwash either and how fast. My father was always a tory but basically centre right - probably pretty much where Keir Starmer is now ironically. Over the last year or so he has flipped to a fully paid up card carrying racist pensioner. Its honestly really testing our relationship. The only change has been he has started watching GBN 'for some balance' and because 'John Cleese and Nigel Farage aren't allowed to speak properly on the BBC' FFS, this channel is an absolutely roaring success if it never makes a penny profit