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Piers Morgan cancels himself

The Tw*t twitters:-"I've been nominated in  @EditorsUK awards as Columnist of the Year. Obviously, some deranged wokie is now going to make a fuss about this & demand I be cancelled from the shortlist, to make a name for themselves. So before they do, I am cancelling myself. Remove my nomination."https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/piers-morgan-cancels-press-award-23696435"I think it's fair to say, although the woke crowd will think that they've cancelled me, I think they will be rather disappointed when I re-emerge."It's all about poor Piers.

David Ainsworth ● 1847d17 Comments

The problem is there is obviously a market for his kind of personality-led journalism. I don’t see that changing any time soon. Not sure it is complete coincidence that most of these self-publicists are not politically neutral but out there on the right wing. Balance in the media is at real risk with a Tory donor now running the BBC (for example) and a year long boycott by govt ministers of Channel 4 News. Until the pandemic hit they were also refusing to go on R4’s Today programme. Not the Cancel Culture the right wing press fulminates about but it sure looks like a determined effort to marginalise non-right-of-centre voices in the media. I saw a good cartoon the other day showing a crowd of people walking down a road to a junction where the signpost pointed in two directions, WRONG BUT SIMPLE and RIGHT BUT COMPLEX. Guess which way the people were going!

Jonathan Callaway ● 1844d

Morgan:- "‘Though of course, I consider myself to be neither a victim, nor actually cancelled."And yet he pretended that he was a victim and "cancelled". And the suckers lapped it up. "People love his honesty". I'm sure that he is just what many people in this country want and deserve.

David Ainsworth ● 1845d

Oh,well, looks like he won't be on the streets for long. Obviously a good business move to cancel his ITV contract for one of the more lucrative deals he'd surely been sniffing around before his M&H interview comments  ...https://metro.co.uk/2021/03/14/piers-morgan-in-10million-bidding-war-by-tv-execs-after-gmb-exit-14240378/

Michael Ixer ● 1845d

"The DM will not be silenced by a narcissistic z-list actress and neither will Piers Morgan. Thank goodness"Poor silenced Piers Morgan on Twitter today:-"So gratifying to see my book "Wake Up" at No2 in the Amazon chart. Thanks to everyone who's bought it in support of my battle to defend free speech, which has never seemed more vital. It's the cornerstone of any democracy.Order "Wake Up" here: [website]"The Daily Mail only ever points out "inconsistencies" which suit its politics. It masks anything else.And "goodness" has nothing to do with the Daily Mail.

David Ainsworth ● 1846d

The article in the DM is justly pointing out the inconsistencies aka lies that Markle spouted during her carefully orchestrated interview with Winfrey.  Let's see if Markle will sue the paper over this article. I doubt it.The DM will not be silenced by a narcissistic z-list actress and neither will Piers Morgan.  Thank goodness.

Sue Hammond ● 1846d

I'm sure that many millions do.

David Ainsworth ● 1846d

"It is odd that this Royal issue is the one that gets attention from a country that locks up journalists who expose the wrong doings of governments concerning deaths, kidnapping and torture!"What you really mean is that it is not odd at all. It is standard operating procedure.

David Ainsworth ● 1846d

"and the MoS highlighted more free speech issues than the so called free speech Guardian that has been quiet on a number of issues."@Ed 👍🏻👏🏻

Sue Hammond ● 1846d

200,000 wanted him reinstated.

Barbara Stevens ● 1846d

"If you are happy that a minor celeb from Los Angeles can dictate what Brits can say, watch and read, then go ahead, gloat about Morgan."I'm sorry, there is no sign that any "Brits" have been dictated to. Daily Mail today:-"Harry and Meghan: the inconvenient truth"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/index.htmlOh the oppression! The love that dare not speak its name.The lesson Piers Morgan has learned over the years is that pseudo outrage and feigned anger sells. The majority of us love it. Just now and then, reality intrudes with the chased down death of Princes Diana or the phone-hacking scandal, where for a brief period we all shrink back and pretend that we have real emotions and we genuinely care, but then on we go, back to normal, boo the "villain", find a scapegoat.Meanwhile poor Piers will fail upwards, as he always has been allowed to.Evening Standard, 18th January 2021:-"Are you ready for a British Fox News? The people behind GB News hope so...With strident views, new voices and £60m of funding, new channel GB News has ambitions to take on the big beasts at the BBC, ITN and Sky - and now there are rumours Piers Morgan could be joining."I don't think that he has blown his chances with this. Quite the opposite.

David Ainsworth ● 1846d

" a minor celeb from Los Angeles can dictat.."This sounds sensible until you look up who and where the owners of much of the so called British media are. The free speech boat has long since sailed. That is not to say we do not need to protect the bits we have left and the MoS highlighted more free speech issues than the so called free speech Guardian that has been quiet on a number of issues.It is odd that this Royal issue is the one that gets attention from a country that locks up journalists who expose the wrong doings of governments concerning deaths, kidnapping and torture!

Ed Robinson ● 1846d

MIND welcomed Meghan bringing mental health issues out in the open.

Jane Carter ● 1846d

I might add that the 41,000 complaints received by Ofcom over Piers Morgan’s behaviour relate to his dismissive attitude to the mental health issues raised in the MM interview as much as the misogyny he paraded (with Susannah Reid sitting mutely at his side). A lot of people clearly think he overstepped the line and irresponsibly abused his rights to free speech. It will be interesting to see how Ofcom respond.

Jonathan Callaway ● 1846d

Yes, protecting the right of free speech is indeed important.  Plenty of people on the media saying what they want every day of the year. No problem. My point with Piers Morgan is that I see him as a hectoring, bullying self-publicist who uses these freedoms to the full. He’s not been cancelled by anybody and I’m quite sure if he wants to take a public stand on the LA celeb or anybody else the media will fall over themselves to report on it. More worrying are the more extreme cases of the cancel culture where somebody takes a public stand which proves the unpopular in certain quarters and are then denied any platform to repeat their views. The other side of freedom of speech is of course that it should come with a responsibility not to be inflammatory, whether on race matters of other contentious issues such as gender. We have legal limits already especially on political or religious extremists. I just hope nobody tries to draw the line too restrictively.

Jonathan Callaway ● 1846d

Well said Bill.

Sue Hammond ● 1846d

I've never watched Piers Morgan and didn't like what I heard about him. But be careful how you handle Free Speech, it is rather fragile. Markle's handlers have been very clever, they went in very hard to tackle the Daily Mail and perhaps the bosses at ITV have been intimidated by this. If you are happy that a minor celeb from Los Angeles can dictate what Brits can say, watch and read, then go ahead, gloat about Morgan.

Bill Christie ● 1847d

A classic case of mega-ego syndrome. I was beginning to warm to his style of roasting various cabinet ministers live on TV but he made the whole M and H saga all about him. It isn’t of course but as a fully committed self-publicist one has to say he has successfully dragged the spotlight on to himself. Ghastly.

Jonathan Callaway ● 1847d