Phone hacking: Piers Morgan admits publishing articles based on phone tapping

[deminks]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8664704/Phone-hacking-Piers-Morgan-admits-publishing-articles-based-on-phone-tapping.html

Mr Morgan, a former News of the World and Daily Mirror editor who is now a high-profile television presenter in the US, has spent the past week categorically denying ever printing material derived from phone hacking.

He spoke out after being accused by a Conservative MP and political bloggers of being involved in the phone hacking scandal that has engulfed Rupert Murdoch’s media empire, for which he used to work.

“For the record, in my time at the News of the World and the Mirror, I have never hacked a phone, told anyone to hack a phone, or published any stories based on the hacking of a phone,” he said last week on CNN, where he now hosts a talk-show.

But it has emerged that Mr Morgan gave a notably different response when asked during an interview with the BBC about his potential involvement in covert "gutter" journalistic practices during his time as a tabloid editor between 1994 and 2004.

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Well, well, well.

[graywarrior]

1. This will be interesting

[Shagbark Hickory]

2. Better to come out with it now.

[Dawson Leery]

3. Piers has gone out of his way to defend Murdoch and deflect attention from himself.

[InvisibleTouch]

4. No big surprise. I've always thought he was an ass. n/t

[RKP5637]

6. And an arrogant ass at that! n/t

[emulatorloo]

8. And a pathological liar. Maybe a sociopath.

[Ruby the Liberal]

5. Some dude came forward today with a recording proving Piers knew.

His ass is mired deep in this. Best to cling to his CNN overlords for protection and turn against Murdoch now, IMO.

[WCGreen]

7. If CNN had any integrity left, they would fire his ass...

[emulatorloo]

9. Are they even reporting on any of this?

[WCGreen]

11. don't know.....

I watch MSNBC and my local channels.

Still, they need to separate themselves from this guy.

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[KansDem]

12. I'm beginning to wonder if all this phone and computer hacking was limited to media outlets

What's to keep corporations from spying on each other, if not the government itself? Or private citizens?

What kinds of nefarious activities have these entities been engaged in the name of "capitalism?"