CNN Ignores Piers Morgan’s Connection To News Corp. Scandal

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http://thinkprogress.org/media/2011/07/17/271233/cnn-piers-morgan-murdoch/

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Piers Morgan, the British journalist and talk show host who took over for CNN’s venerable Larry King earlier this year, is a former editor of the now-defunct News of the World, the tabloid at the center of the hacking scandal. Moreover, Morgan has been implicated in a separate celebrity phone hacking scandal while he was editor of the U.K’s Daily Mirror.

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A CNN spokesperson confirmed the lack of coverage to Ad Week last week, “saying that the network hasn’t covered the matter because Morgan has not been officially called to testify in England.”

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The allegations are especially troubling given this passage from Morgan’s 2005 book, The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade:

Apparently if you don’t change the standard security code that every phone comes with, then anyone can call your number and, if you don’t answer, tap in the standard four digit code to hear all your messages. I’ll change mine just in case, but it makes me wonder how many public figures and celebrities are aware of this little trick.

[rustydog]

1. I'm more interested in Fox News and Tony Snow being

George Bush's Press secretary...Shades of Britan's PM and his press secretary.

[Safetykitten]

2. Him just being himself is punishment. He looks like he's getting an enema while being plastered.

[dipsydoodle]

3. Anyone who wants to listen to my messages is welcome.

:)

I still don't think that in the case of Jude law it comes under US jurisdiction given that his voicemail would be on the UK network if the 'phone wasn't answered.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. He boasted to the Mirror newsroom he had Heather Mills' voicemail from Paul McCartney

Screws hacks have been chuckling over the hysterical TV interviews and Tweets in which two previous editors, Phil Hall and Piers “Morgan” Moron, try to defend Andy Coulson and accuse the Guardian of running a “witch-hunt.” What might be revealed by close scrutiny of their own records? Any exposure of dubious methods wouldn’t exactly help their new careers. Hall has gone from poacher to gatekeeper, with a new career as a celebrity PR, and has already been embarrassed by his nephew, a Screws hack in the Coulson era, admitting that he transcribed hacked messages for sleazy Neville Thurlbeck, then as now the paper’s chief reporter.

Moron, meanwhile, is enjoying the limelight as a celeb interviewer on cable TV. Former Mirror hacks have this week been reminiscing about the occasion when Moron serenaded their newsroom with the Beatles song “And I Love Her” during a period of pre-wedding froideur between Paul McCartney and Heather Mills, and then informed them that “It’s the message he sang to Heather to make it up — you should hear the tape.”

http://www.matthewcharlesdavis.com/2011/02/14/you-should-hear-the-tape

A bit more at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1475474&mesg_id=1475675