Is Piers Morgan next to fall? Connected to NOTW hacking scandal?

[HipChick]

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-media-piersmorgantre76e648-20110715,0,6554646.story

http://order-order.com/2011/07/12/piers-morgan-knew-award-winning-scoop-was-hacked/

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.

"James 'Scottie' Scott, the Daily Mirror's showbiz reporter at the time, was listening into (English TV star) Ulrika Jonsson's voicemails when he was flummoxed by messages in her native Swedish," Fawkes wrote.

Morgan decided to let '3AM Girl' Jessica Callan break the illegally obtained story under her byline in order to try and rid the column of its banal reputation."

The blog never supplied much evidence, but one of his sources might be Morgan's book, "The Insider," in which Morgan talks about a "little trick" that sounds a whole lot like hacking.

[me b zola]

1. I'd like for that piece of filth go away

And i hope cnn takes a hit for dumping Larry King for him.

[PurityOfEssence]

8. Huzzah!

I couldn't agree more; what an overrated snotty loser asshole. The very idea of lionizing this veritable incarnation of misbegotten pomposity is beyond belief.

King, for all his avuncular crustiness, "had" something.

[suffragette]

2. Would be nice to see both him and the Daily Mirror

go down.

K&R

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. CNN would certainly have a bit of egg on its face, wouldn't it?

A whole omelet, actually.

[madinmaryland]

4. Piers "I love Nancy Grace" Morgan? Fuck him!

[Dawson Leery]

5. Don't be suprised to find clear links between NewsCorp's "Fox News Channel" and Fox News Jr.

[malaise]

6. Let me put it this way

Wouldn't it be lovely!! :evilgrin:

[FreakinDJ]

7. GREAT - I hate his show

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Maybe CNN will get a clue now

[graywarrior]

10. He was mean to Prince Poppycock. I hope he falls bigtime.