Is Piers Morgan connected to phone-hacking scandal?

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/15/us-media-piersmorgan-idUSTRE76E64820110715

Is Piers Morgan connected to phone-hacking scandal?
By Lucas Shaw

NEW YORK - Is CNN's Piers Morgan the next to fall in the News Corp. phone-hacking scandal?

CNN, which has given the scandal plenty of play, is starting to face questions about its treatment of allegations implicating its own Larry King replacement.

Seems Morgan was once an editor of the News of the World, the British tabloid that started all of this -- though his alleged improprieties were during his tenure as editor of a different tabloid: the Daily Mirror.

On Monday, a British politics blog titled Guido Fawkes claimed Morgan condoned hacking during his editorship...

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303661904576452462410725204.html

For Brooks, a Heady Path to Power
A Consummate Networker, She Gained the Ear of the Elite; She Says It Was 'Inconceivable' She Knew of Phone Hacking
By PAUL SONNE And CASSELL BRYAN-LOW

...An only child, Ms. Brooks grew up in a middle-class family in Cheshire, England. Her father died when she was young. Ms. Brooks, now 43, studied briefly at the Sorbonne but doesn't hold a university degree. She began her journalism career in 1988 as a low-ranking assistant at a now-defunct U.K. tabloid. A year later, she joined News of the World, the behemoth London Sunday tabloid. As a features reporter, she eventually caught the attention of editor Piers Morgan, now a talk-show host at CNN.

In a 2005 memoir, Mr. Morgan described Ms. Brooks as one of the tabloid's "sophisticated operatives," recounting how he sent her to another News Corp. paper, the Sunday Times, where she "helped herself" to exclusive excerpts from a much-awaited biography of Prince Charles by dressing up as a News International office cleaner and hiding in the bathroom for two hours.

In another episode, also recounted in the book, Mr. Morgan and Ms. Brooks arranged a hotel meeting with a secret lover of Princess Diana who was considering going public about his affair. Ms. Brooks sent a team to the hotel beforehand "to kit it out with secret tape devices in various flowerpots and cupboards," Mr. Morgan said. "If all else fails, we can always expose him later for even thinking about ratting on Di."

A spokeswoman for CNN declined to comment and said Mr. Morgan had no comment...

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1. that and he is a crappy news anchor

I want Cooper and Spitzer back