On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:21 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have never had any context for Piers Morgan, and do not understand why >> CNN >> > wanted to hitch their wagon to him. But there is a difference between >> sleazy >> > and unethical practices, which he seems to have admitted (and >> rationalized >> > by arguing that everyone was doing them) and the illegal practices at >> the >> > core of the current investigations. MP Louise Mensch dragged Morgan back >> > into this with her questions of the Murdochs (apparently based on >> > misinformation), and now older reports are getting rehashed. So far CNN >> > believes Morgan when he says he was a sleaze, not a crook. >> > > The only part of the Piers Morgan story that has captured my attention (just because I have always gotten a kick out of the fact that Louise Mensch is actually an MP, and because I happened to be watching live as her part in this unfolded) seems to have come full circle now. LM has finally apologized to Morgan, and admitted that, in her questioning of the Murdochs on worldwide television, in which she repeatedly stated as fact that Morgan had bragged about his own hacking as the source for his own scoops in his own book, not only was she wrong, but she never even read his book herself. She was relying on an article in the Daily Telegraph - and she even misread that article.
See: http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/mp-apologizes-to-piers-morgan-for-hacking-claim_b78535 In the context of her line of questioning, Mensch (a Tory) seemed most interested in refocusing the inquiry away from the Murdochs, and instead on all of the British press, repeatedly stating that the kind of hacking that had happened at the Murdoch's papers was common practice on Fleet Street. ******************************* "U.K. MP *Louise Mensch<http://www.mediabistro.com/Louise-Mensch-profile.html> * has apologized to CNN anchor *Piers Morgan<http://www.mediabistro.com/Piers-Morgan-profile.html> * over claims she made in parliament saying that Morgan admitted to getting a scoop by phone hacking. Mensch made the comments during the Parliamentary hearings with *James Murdoch<http://www.mediabistro.com/James-Murdoch-profile.html> * and *Rupert Murdoch<http://www.mediabistro.com/Rupert-Murdoch-profile.html> *. As she acknowledged in her formal apology, she confused what was written in a news item for what Morgan claimed. In my questions to Rupert and James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks, I wrongly stated that Piers Morgan, formerly editor of the Daily Mirror, had been open about personally hacking phones in a book he wrote. This was based on my misreading of an article in the Daily Telegraph published on the 13th July, which covered Mr. Morgan’s description in his book of how to hack a phone and how he won the Scoop of the Year on the story of Sven-Goran Eriksson and Ulrika Johnson. The Telegraph report covers the claim of a blogger that this story was acquired by phone hacking, and I misread that as Mr. Morgan himself claiming this to be true.Therefore, I must apologise to Mr. Morgan and the Committee for this error about his book. When Mensch and Morgan appeared on CNN together, Morgan tried to get her to repeat her claims, only to have her invoke Parliamentary privilege in saying that she could not<http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/piers-morgan-to-louise-mensch-show-some-balls_b77388> . ********************************* -- 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
