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Subject: [ISN] What does CNN do with Piers Morgan now?
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2011-12-22 8:40:28
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2011/dec/20/piers-morgan-cnn-leveson-inquiry
By Richard Adams
guardian.co.uk
20 December 2011
If CNN wants an incisive big-name interviewer, it should consider hiring
Robert Jay QC, who put Piers Morgan through a far tougher interview than
Morgan has managed on his primetime show on CNN.
When CNN signed Morgan to replace the venerable Larry King as its
primetime interviewer, "they haven't hired Mother Teresa," as Morgan
himself put it. But until the abuses of the British press were brought
so sharply to light earlier this year, CNN surely did not realise what
it had got itself into.
Thanks to Jay and the Leveson inquiry into the seamy underside of the
British media, CNN now knows a lot more than it did when it signed
Morgan to a multimillion-dollar contract in 2010.
Repeatedly pressed by Jay and Leveson to explain his past statements and
career -- which may or may not have involved phone hacking -- Morgan's
memory became worryingly unreliable. By the end of Jay's questioning the
imperious interviewer familiar to viewers of Piers Morgan Tonight was
reduced to sullen, one-word answers delivered with curt annoyance.
The difficult question for CNN is: what does it do with Piers Morgan
now?
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