1. Taking the Piers!
Piers Morgan and phone hacking.
Louise Mensch, the MP for Corby recently said that Piers Morgan admitted to
being part of phone hacking and even bragged that it won him an award. This
alone explains the nature of Piers Morgan and what he is capable of.
The phone hacking scandal involved News of the World employees hacking
phones and even police bribery in order to produce stories.
This led to many people leaving their roles such as Tom Crone, Rebekah Brooks
and Les Hinton and Matt Nixson. Where was Piers Morgan?
As the newspaper News of the World came crashing down, many of there
employees were seen to be guilty of phone hacking and even pleaded so when
under investigation. Neville Thurlbeck, Greg Miskiw and James Weatherup all
followed Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson to appear before a judge. Where
was Piers Morgan, a former editor of the Sunday paper?
Are we supposed to believe that phone hacking went on in the newspaper, right
under his nose and he had nothing to do with it?
Piers Morgan has created a reputation for being outspoken and very
opinionated.
It is from this that it came as no surprise when political blogger Paul Staines
claimed that Morgan produced a story for the Daily Mail involving a love affair
with Sven-Goran Eriksson and Ulrika Jonsson, knowing the information had
come from the hacking of phones.
2011 was a busy year for Morgan, being accused for hacking phones and then
admitting to hearing a recording of an answerphone message left by Paul
McCartney for Heather Mills.
2015 and Piers Morgan is still being questioned in relation to the same topic.
How can an investigation go on for so long and he is still running free?
Police have questioned the former editor of the Daily Mirror twice! The
authorities first questioned him back in December 2013 and he is keeping to the
same lies.
“I’ve never hacked a phone nor told anybody to hack a phone.”
Surely the police don’t buy that? Have they forgot what he has done in the past?
This is the man that produced a publication with hoax images involving Iraqi
prisoners and British soldiers. The man that drove Jeremy Clarkson to punch him

2. and the man that bought shares in a computer company, under his wife’s name,
before tipping them to be a great buy in his column for the Daily Mirror.
If you believe that Piers Morgan was totally unaware of phone hacking and did
not take part in phone hacking you need to open your eyes. He is capable of it.
It seems everyone understands this apart from the people that make a
difference.
So who believes Morgan?
Lord Justice Leveson has described Piers Morgan's assertion that he had no
knowledge of alleged phone hacking as "utterly unpersuasive" He went on to say
that "This was not, in any sense at all, a convincing answer."
This just shows that he is running out of explanations and the walls are closing in
on him. I struggle to understand how he has kept his hands clean for so long.
If the evidence was not already clear as day, Jeremy Paxman, a well respected
journalist and broadcaster was a witness at the Leveson Inquiry.
He recalled a lunch with the Mirror editor in September 2002 at which Morgan
outlined the means of hacking into a mobile phone.
How much more information do people need in order to understand?
How about a report by the BBC explaining the bulk of the alleged wrongdoing
took place in the early 2000s when Morgan was the Daily Mirror editor.
He was Editor. We are supposed to buy that he never hacked a phone or told
someone to do so?
On 24 September 2014, the Trinity Mirror publishing group admitted for the first
time that some of its journalists had been involved in phone hacking
They even agreed to pay compensation to four people who sued for the alleged
hacking of voicemails. Confessions and witnesses, what is next?
The strongest questioning against Morgan came from British MP Louise Mensch
in which she alleged he had in fact boasted of doing so in his 2005
autobiography, The Insider.
Morgan called the accusation an "absolute, blatant lie" and "a deliberate and
outrageous attempt to smear my name."
Smear his name? Others do not need to do that; he has done a great job by
himself.

3. He keeps sticking to the same story how he didn’t know it was going on an that
he is innocent whilst the evidence is stacking up and the facts are starting to
become much more clear.
Claiming that was a blatant lie is rich from someone how has made a career out
of it. How does he keep a straight face when accusing others of fabricating the
truth?
“For the record, in my time at The Mirror and the News of the World, I have
never hacked a phone, told anybody to hack a phone, nor to my knowledge
published any story obtained from the hacking of a phone.”
This is hilarious as when looking into his autobiography The Insider which was
mentioned before, he explains 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.
Getting hold of an actress’s new number? Of course he did. Is it stupidity or
arrogance why he is actually writing such contradictions?
Nearly 100 actors, sports stars and other individuals in the High Court in the
wake of the hacking scandal at the titles have now sued Mirror Group
Newspapers.
Trinity Mirror published a "sincere and unreserved" apology for the voicemail
interception, saying it "was unlawful and should never have happened".
Is it not about time Morgan just admitted it and he apologised?
It is not just the 100 actors or sports stars, phone hacking went the full distance.
Amanda Jane "Milly" Dowler was a 13-year-old English girl who was abducted on
her way home from school in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, on 21 March 2002, and
subsequently murdered.
The Guardian reported on 4 July 2011 that Scotland Yard had discovered
Dowler's voicemail had been accessed by journalists working for the News of the
World and the newspaper's private investigator Glenn Mulcaire.
The paper also reported that, during their ongoing investigation into that
newspaper's phone hacking activities, police detectives discovered journalists
had deleted some messages.
This took it to a point where the people involved needed to be stopped.
In summary, I feel that there are more than enough reasons to believe Morgan
took part in phone hacking. He should get what he deserves and be removed
from the media industry.