Piers Morgan resigns

Criminal proceedings?

Speculating now happening at warp speed. Downing Street have said it's a matter for the Trinity Mirror board and they won't comment further.

Piers Morgan also invented 3AM Girls.

C4 news have had the Guardian editor and the Sun political editor in, both appeared visibly pleased by the outcome. They've also had the first story from inside the Mirror - Morgan was apparently in a meeting this afternoon where he was told the Mirror wanted to change their position on the photos after today's Army evidence. Morgan refused, and was sacked.

I bet Naomi Campbell is downing a bellini or two to celebrate.

FOR THOSE OF YOU NOT PAYING ATTENTION UNTIL NOW: there were photos splashed all over the front page of the Mirror purporting to be British soldiers doing awful things to Iraqi prisoners. Harsh blow to British superiority complex over behavior in war, "civilized values," etc. It turns out the pictures were hoaxes. Piers Morgan, editor of the Mirror, has resigned. End of story.

Private Eye has great pice about Sun's hypocrisy over this issue. I know, "dog bites man," but still.

I saw it in Asda the morning it came out and knew immediately there was something fishy going on.

This is what I keep wondering - surely anyone with even an ounce of sense, let alone the journalistic instincts which Morgan has, would have at least been aware of the possibility of a hoax and suspicious of those aspects of the pictures? Moral of the story, anyway - fucking with the Army is v v v different to fucking with Naomi Campbell or Vicky Beckham. 'Tis a bit of a shame about Piers, but the Schadenfreude in all other reports on this is palpable.

One issue for any new Mirror editor would obviously be having to be bossed by the loathesome Sly Bailey, a woman so anvil-headed that she makes little recordings of her policy decisions (in her own voice) and then whacks these missives onto an 0870 number which Trinity Mirror staff must then call if they want her 'memo'.

I reckon the Bailey/the Mirror board might use this as an opportunity to steer the ship away from from all this messy controversial war stuff and into something more populist. I'd be annoyed if they did, but unsurprised. On the other hand, if Rosie Boycott was to be made editor I might actually BUY the thing.

The Sun and the Mail are going to tear into Morgan's still-warm corpse like a pack of ravenous hyenas, aren't they?

PM recently found to be having affair with M4rin4 #yd3, much to the consternation of his wife and kids and her husband. But M has ES column so Dacre might leave them alone.

R3b3k4h W4d3 is said to be a carpet-muncher in sham trophy marriage.

I'm forgetting who #yd3's married to.

I think the episode sad. I think Morgan was, 'pragmatically', or 'strategically' or whatever, a pugnacious figure for progressive arguments in this country. He has just lost his soapbox and I fear that we're the poorer.

It's telling that he's not surfaced yet and is believed to be talking to his lawyers.

Oh, and as for Piers Morgan. The minute I saw the pictures, my first thought was "people are going to die over these pictures" To publish them without verifying them was beyond irresponsible..final nail in the Mirror's coffin.

Surely his friendship with ms #yd3 is too much of an open secret for there to be real threat of exposure?

Military police have said they will investigate photographs found in a branch of Boots which appear to show Iraqi prisoners being abused by British soldiers.

The images are reported to include pictures of troops pointing machine guns at handcuffed detainees.

They were found on a digital printer machine in the chemist's branch in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire.

Strathclyde Police officers were called in but concluded there was nothing criminal to pursue.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/18/uphoto.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/11/18/ixportaltop.html

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― gershy, Saturday, March 8, 2008 3:46 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

gonna need a slightly saner accusatrix than Heather "Don't Look At Me I'm Shy" Mills tbh

I have long had the idea that Piers Morgan is not the sharpest knife in the drawer - yet his long and successful career seems to contradict this.

I was hoping this was a new thread re his current gig. I guess his weasely answers re his past don't matter to his current employer

Again!

Wow.
“STATEMENT FROM ITV
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Following discussions with ITV, Piers Morgan has decided now is the time to leave Good Morning Britain.
 
ITV has accepted this decision and has nothing further to add.”

— boydhilton (@boydhilton) March 9, 2021

He's been getting right kicking from some of his recent guests.

call me back when he retires from life

Just in time for the launch of GB News

gb news/suicide by cop or no, this is basically right i think

Flouncing out is the most well-rehearsed tactic of the populist-media industry. Look at how many things Farage has ‘left’, without ever seeming to actually go anywhere.

— Will Davies (@davies_will) March 9, 2021

Saw a tweet today showing partey, claude from AFTV and piers and saying same energy

Say what you like about Morgan but he was pretty much the only mainstream TV presenter to do a decent job of holding the govt to account on Covid.

when you're a dishonest preening dick like Moran i'm not sure that any blows you might land have any lasting weight

countryside

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so he got tapped up by GB news then.. yawn.

Say what you like about Morgan but he was pretty much the only mainstream TV presenter to do a decent job of holding the govt to account on Covid.

this says more to me about the state of journalism in the UK than anything

A lot are saying exactly this

He probably was after Kay Burley got suspended for, er, breaking lockdown rules.

I heard a lot of "he's got a point" chatter over summer as if his ability to point out people dying suddenly validated his transphobic views.

I wish I could get #cancelled, I would love a high-profile media job to fall into.

Sorry to learn Piers Morgan has been sacked from GMB. I’ve left him a message of sympathy on my own voicemail.

— David Hendon (@davehendon) March 9, 2021

Took a while, but I got that one eventually.

"Piers Morgan breaks silence"

indeed he does

Overton window has shifted so far rightwards that now Lord Coogan is considered a dangerous radical to be cut off mid sentence for slagging off Moran on Pesto.