When did Piers Morgan become a serious interviewer?

[dellzeqq]

well, as you've probably guessed my take on Morgan is completely personal - and I entirely agree that anybody with that measure of self-regard does excite passions of a nose-punching variety.

Having said that - his opposition to the war in Iraq was principled, and his reputation as a boss is very, very good.

 

[dodgy]

I caught him interviewing someone wealthy the other week, can't remember who it was now, maybe Elton John? Not sure, but could Piers have been any more sycophantic!?

 

[Ghost Donkey]

it's not unforgiveable, it was a mistake - which he admitted.

The pictures which were printed were not genuine. The military equipment in the photographs were not in Iraq which helped expose them as hoaxes. Presuming Piers Morgan was hoaxed good and proper he is still responsible for checking the sources are genuine before printing them in his newspaper unless that responsibility is above/below him and he took the rap as editor. I've not worked in newspaper but it may be one of those producer tells director what to do things. I presume newspaper editor is the same as executive producer.

Of course I am not checking this properly either, I just did a quick look on wikipedia to check what I was saying isn't factually tosh. Just because I read it on the internet doesn't mean it's true as I'm well aware .

When was the last time a newspaper editor defied the owners of a paper?

Fair point although it wasn't me who said that I just said "It is" meaning it is the same Piers Morgan who was a newspaper editor.

He's still a cock

 

[urbanfatboy]

It's not so much the stupidity that i object to, it's the muckraking, personal vendettas and downright nasty things he has done in his role as a jouranlist which make me think he's a sh@

 

[Archie_tect]

He was a journalist doing the job he was paid to do- he's proving to be a skillful chat show host.... whether you like him or not, he's very good at promoting himself. There will always for and against... Unless you have met and got to know him you can only have an opinion about him based on what you see and read in the media so not exactly an accurate base!

 

[mangaman]

I've met him in a club in Spain (very classy ) We were both a little under the influence.

He was "dancing" ie swaying and waving his arms in a typical pissed British male trying to dance.

I'd seen him on Celebrity Apprentice (this was a couple of years ago).

I muscled in on his dance routne and we had a chat about Celebity Apprentice - he was OK. Very friendly / very drunk.

All utterly irrelevant really but I thought I'd share it with you

(And he flew home on Easyjet the next morning and queued with the rest of us, although I suspect his stock has risen a tad in the last 2 years)

 

[yello]

Not sure, but could Piers have been any more sycophantic!?

No, that's Jonathan Ross's territory!

My only recollection of Piers Morgan was when he was on 'Have I Got News For You' many many years ago. He was predictably ganged up upon. He may well have been deserving of it but I loathe self-righteous smugness of the kind invariably metered out by Hislop et al (even when I agree with the point being made!). As a result, I found myself having a degree of unexpected sympathy for Morgan!

It's a complex world we live in. There are no comedy villians in real life

 

[yenrod]

And why. I've never liked him but he doesn't seem to be doing a bad job, just watching Cathryn Jenkins being interviewd, a little bit tabloid perhaps but not bad.

When ITV got desperate for new blood...!