On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > I am clearly out of the pop culture loop... Does this guy constitute a > "get" for CNN? From what little there is about him online, he is a > failed and discredited tabloid journalist and editor whom Jeremy > Clarkson once punched in the face. While staying at my mom's, we > caught a few minutes of America allegedly has Got Talent, and when it > was his time to speak, my mom said she thought he was annoying. So it > would seem he doesn't appeal to older folks, or folks my age, and > folks younger than me rarely watch CNN. And, at best, he is a tabloid > hack. >
That really about sums him up. He was editor of a tabloid newspaper over here - the Daily Mirror (think NY Post, although it's not Murdoch owned) - but that all went sour when he published some faked photos of Iraqi prisoners being abused. I really don't understand his alleged popularity. He presents various programmes on ITV with titles like Piers Morgan on... Dubai which are vacuous. And of course he's on Britain's Got Talent. He's also had a series on one on one interviews with celebs of the calibre of Sharon Osborne. As I mentioned before, I rather hope that his CNN gig will deprive us Brits of him, and let a vaguely talented interviewer get a gig. CNN International only runs Larry King Live "live" which tends to mean about 2am, so he'll completely disappear off my radar! Adam -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
