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FORMER BRITAIN’S Got Talent presenter Piers Morgan has been drawn further into the ongoing phone hacking scandal after a clip emerged of a 2009 interview about his time editing the Daily Mirror emerged.
Asked on the BBC’s Desert Island Discs how he felt about dealing with people who search through people’s bins, tap phones and take illicit photographs, Morgan said “not a lot of that went on”.
He added that any such activities were mostly carried out by people outside the newspaper:
A lot of it was done by third parties, rather than the staff themselves. That’s not to defend it – obviously we were running the results of their work.
Morgan, now a talk show host on CNN, had previously touched on the issue of phone hacking in a 2007 interview. He claimed that phone tapping was “going on at almost every paper in Fleet Street for years”, the Telegraph reports. He has since denied any involvement in phone hacking.
At the weekend, former Daily Mirror columnist James Hipwell claimed the practice was “endemic” during Morgan’s time as editor.
At a British parliamentary committee hearing about the phone hacking, MP Louise Mensch questioned Morgan’s comments about phone hacking, prompting Morgan to respond angrily to the allegations during a CNN interview:
He also later directed a number of angry messages via Twitter to the MP.
Earlier today, Morgan tweeted:
I’ll be making no further comment on this#Hackgate nonsense. But important for everyone to know exactly who these lying smearers are.
Hacking inquiry
Yesterday, the Daily Mirror’s owner the Trinity Mirror group announced it would launch a review of its editorial procedures following the News of the World scandal. The NOTW, owned by rival newspaper group News International, was shut down after allegations it was involved in the suspected phone hacking of the families of terror attack and murder victims.
Separate public and police inquiries are investigating the allegations.
News International’s parent company News Corporation met government ministers 130 times in 14 months – an average of every three days – since Britain’s coalition goverment was formed, according to the Telegraph.
While Prime Minister David Cameron was involved in over a quarter of the meetings, other senior political figures who met with News Corp executives include Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne and Defence Secretary Liam Fox.
Opposition MPs have called on the government to explain the meetings with the news group, particularly as some came just two weeks before a regulatory ruling on the company’s proposed takeover of BSkyB.
News Corp dropped its bid for the satellite broadcaster after political pressure arising from the hacking allegations.
Words fail me.
How can apple have made such fundamental error.
Mind you the people who got lost should have known better not to rely on the apple map.
I would be more worried about pilots using iphones to navigate!
So long as the Israelis don’t use Google Maps to bomb the gaza strip.
Dont think Wexford is ready for a jihad
Wicklow sorry, not Wexford
Cos Wexford was born ready? :)
Using apple maps is like my Garmin 10 years ago: no small roads, missing areas and many mistakes.
Absolutely horrible experience.
i dont trust all these emaps & sat navs because of the amount of mistakes on them.stick to the old fashioned paper fold out maps.never go wrong.
I’ve used Garmin and Google Maps across a number of countries and continents and have never once been led astray.
Plenty of satnavs and google maps work fine but after all the bad publicity Apple maps has had I’m surprised anyone is following it. They are really bad.
Google maps is the biz. It can find the pokiest townland in any parish anywhere. And it’s free!
I think the most concerning thing here is, Alan Shatter thinks pilots use iPhones to navigate. Did he seriously think a plane was going to land in the middle of Dublin?
Is there anyway of getting the old google maps back?I can’t stand the apple one everything seems wrong on it.
yes buy a a Samsung
Put a link to Google Maps on your home screen. Easy.
I’m an Apple fan but their map app is utter sh1t. Google is fine.
Satnavs can be rubbish too. Friend from Oz recently visiting was sent miles out of way by satnav in rental car. He should have followed my careful directions.
Or a HTC One. Best phone ever hands down.
I’m currently in my house in Dublin…. but apple maps say I’m on the moon… Hmmmm
This is downright moronic. A multi million dollar firm and it cannot provide a simple map solution.
Apple were very stupid to get rid of Google maps and then not replace it with a guaranteed working map solution.
How they haven’t been fined by someone for loss of revenue (trips made wrong way, late for business trips) is beyond me. I’m not going to get into a conversation about the benefits of iOS and Android, but how can a map be that hard to get right?
If Google can do it , surely apple can do it too?
You’d think it, but obviously not.
Apple crapple.
I never want to go to Oz….full stop.
Either did Dorothy. But that’s Apple for you.
Shane, that is excellent on so many levels :)
Being misdirected in Ireland is one thing, being misdirected in Australia with the heat and huge distances is a whole different ballgame. No good. And awful publicity for Apple.
All maps have flaws. The media are over hyping the Apple maps system and the few mistakes on it.
Even if it was just ‘a few mistakes’ (which it’s not!) the ones that are there are quite serious if it means that people are getting trapped in life threatening situations as a result.
somebody clearly owns an iPhone!
Sandra you can only be an apple fanboi – of does that include girls. If you want to anywhere, you cannot use apple maps. Oconnell street in Dublin is grand. That’s on apple maps.
“They also managed to locate Dublin Zoo just off Grafton Street.” – I believe they actually got that one right… lmao
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