Secular Café: Phone hacking and Piers Morgan

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Phone hacking and Piers Morgan Oct 24th 2012, 07:50 Piers Morgan (aka Piers Moron in Private Eye) has done his best to leave his tabloid-editing past behind him, but it may be catching up with him. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/me...r-8223424.html Quote: Ever since he left The Daily Mirror under a cloud in 2004, Piers Morgan has gone to some lengths to put his newspaper days behind him. As if to emphasise his credentials as a transatlantic chatshow host, he gave his evidence to the Leveson Inquiry via a videolink from Los Angeles. But try as he might, the former showbusiness gossip columnist who has reinvented himself as CNN's main weapon in America's rating wars has yet to shrug off the miasma of allegations generated by the News of the World phone hacking scandal... ...Ironically, many of the claims that resurface against Morgan owe their origin to the man himself. In his autobiography, The Insider, the former editor details how an unnamed individual described to him the practice of hacking phones in 2001 and another incident in April 2000 in which the actress Kate Winslet asked him how he had got hold of a new phone number for her. During the Leveson Inquiry, Morgan was asked about a lunch in 2002 with television presenter Ulrika Jonsson and Jeremy Paxman in which the BBC Newsnight presenter said the newspaperman had shown him how to prevent his voicemails being eavesdropped and implied he knew the contents of conversations between Jonsson and then England football manager Sven Goran Eriksson. Morgan laughed off Paxman's claims, saying he could not recall details.

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