Piers Morgan

[ElectroClaret]

Do you like his combative style of interviewing/reporting?
Having a real go at the Beckhams this morning for furloughing their staff, basically saying they're putting their hand in the taxpayers pocket when they should be standing any expenses themselves.
(Dave and Vicky are estimated to be worth in the region of £340 million)

Is he one for the list?
Or is he right to call this out?

[claretonthecoast1882]

When I see his name as the 1st line I always expect the next line to be

"sucks a horses p***s"

You know you are getting near rock bottom when the phone hacker starts having a go at something you have done.

[Tricky Trevor]

This is how the wealthy stay wealthy. Legal loopholes and accountants who are ridiculously well payed for finding them. Plenty of millionaires will have done the same but yet again it is a footballer getting the kicking.

[Grumps]

The job of an interviewer is to get answers, he fails miserably on this every time, because he interupts so many times you never get to hear the answer.
He may have some good points but they get completely lost in his rants

[FactualFrank]

When some people can't find a way to get the right attention they crave, their only option left is to be controversial.

[Lowbankclaret]

Going to have to agree with Grumps,.
If he did let people talk more , his points would still get across, but they can get lost in his ranting.

What I do think is a Positive, he is the only one who will ask the difficult questions other people and channels will not.

[Grumps]

Going to have to agree with Grumps,.
If he did let people talk more , his points would still get across, but they can get lost in his ranting.

What I do think is a Positive, he is the only one who will ask the difficult questions other people and channels will not.

Thanks miracles do happen
His main aim seems to be to trip up the people he's interviewing, which is fine, but he'd have more chance of doing that if he let them answer, give somebody enough rope etc. The best interviewers do it, he's not one.

[Lowbankclaret]

When some people can't find a way to get the right attention they crave, their only option left is to be controversial.

Do you not think his question about deaths were valid rather than controversial.
There has been apparently over 80 deaths of NHS people and the gov stating it’s 42.

There official figures of care home deaths 215, but claims the real figure is 7,500.

I will accept the official figure will always be lower due to lag in checking the data. But I would suggest the Gov is being slow on purpose.

[claretonthecoast1882]

Do you not think his question about deaths were valid rather than controversial.
There has been apparently over 80 deaths of NHS people and the gov stating it’s 42.

There official figures of care home deaths 215, but claims the real figure is 7,500.

I will accept the official figure will always be lower due to lag in checking the data. But I would suggest the Gov is being slow on purpose.

Course you would as it suits your agenda

[FactualFrank]

Do you not think his question about deaths were valid rather than controversial.
There has been apparently over 80 deaths of NHS people and the gov stating it’s 42.

There official figures of care home deaths 215, but claims the real figure is 7,500.

I will accept the official figure will always be lower due to lag in checking the data. But I would suggest the Gov is being slow on purpose.

He makes some valid points. I never said he didn't. But 90% of the time, he's controversial so it gets people talking about him.

I'd prefer it if he said so many valid things, that that's why people talk about him. But that's rarely the case.

[NottsClaret]

He really is the proverbial 'stopped clock' is Morgan. But I will say, he's actually less partisan than most who post on here. Still a moron, mind.

[Blackrod]

Whilst he’s right on this occasion and it’s an abuse of the system generally he’s an odious character who craves attention in my opinion ( big Twitter users generally do). I don’t watch him so he is irrelevant to me.

[TheFamilyCat]

He has a point, a bloke from CIPD was on the news questioning whether large employers with big cash reserves should be using government money.

To single out the Beckhams though is unfair; it is not right to name and shame. There is also the question of separating their personal wealth from the finances o their businesses.

[thatdberight]

I have Morgan down as a professional gobshite based on the few occasions I've seen him for a few minutes and his reputation. But then I've just seen Jeremy Vine who appears to be broadcasting for three year olds / with all the intellectual rigour of a three year old.

But then anyone on ITV / Channel 5 in the morning is airing to an audience on whom quality would be wasted.

[groove]

He's a poor man's Paxman.

[tim_noone]

I have Morgan down as a professional gobshite based on the few occasions I've seen him for a few minutes and his reputation. But then I've just seen Jeremy Vine who appears to be broadcasting for three year olds / with all the intellectual rigour of a three year old.

But then anyone on ITV / Channel 5 in the morning is airing to an audience on whom quality would be wasted.

Couldn't agree more. I'd rather listen to a creaking door.

[gtclaret]

He is right to interrupt when the politician is deliberately avoiding answering his question, instead they answer the question that they would have liked to be asked, However he interrupts even when they are trying to answer

[Spijed]

Course you would as it suits your agenda

Even you must admit that so few deaths in care homes is a bit strange, especially when doctors in the past have said a virus can spread through a care home like wildfire!

[beddie]

I've offered to show him how to wash his car!

[Burnley1989]

Detest the bloke and everything about him. I can’t comment on anything recently as I don’t listen or read anything he has to say.

[Millertime v1.7]

I would be a good replacement for him on GMB when he's on holiday

[Murger]

Don't usually mind him, but he's been unbearable during this lockdown.

[SalisburyClaret]

There is nothing good to say about him - so best to say nothing

[Billy Balfour]

He really is the proverbial 'stopped clock' is Morgan. But I will say, he's actually less partisan than most who post on here. Still a moron, mind.

Heh. Now that truly is a case of damning with faint praise.

[Enty1974]

He tries to get at em to show him as looking like he siding with the public

Hes a nob

[Top Claret]

Morgan is an obnoxious bully.

Business is business no matter how much money you have. Victoria Beckham did the right thing in taking advantage of the government ferlouogh scheme

[TVC15]

He’s an absolute hypocritical t-wat whose ego is almost as big as his mate’s Donald.
Look at the things he has done in the past. Everything is about him.
But all that said even obnoxious c-ocks like Morgan are right some of the time.

[ClaretMoffitt]

A total phoney whos every political stance and position is just a scheme to generate maximum publicity and interest.


Only a total fool would trust him.

[tiger76]

Agree with the 2 comments above,whoever he's interviewing he somehow manages to make it all about him,file under the same banner as Katie Hopkins.

[pureclaret]

And the poor bloke only gets paid £1.3 million for good morning Britain and some additonal £2 million for his other shows

[bfcjg]

I used to quite like his style but he is now feeding on his own ego.

[DAVETHEVICAR]

I like Piers Morgan in a morning now as he is the only frontman who asks the Politicians hard and difficult questions and it is not his fault that they don’t answer the questions but give answers avoiding the question.
Whereas the nice guys on BBC ask questions and when they don’t get an answer say thanks very much for being on the programme.
They should have Andrew Neill asking the questions
All about opinions. Imo

[jrgbfc]

I like Piers Morgan in a morning now as he is the only frontman who asks the Politicians hard and difficult questions and it is not his fault that they don’t answer the questions but give answers avoiding the question.
Whereas the nice guys on BBC ask questions and when they don’t get an answer say thanks very much for being on the programme.
They should have Andrew Neill asking the questions
All about opinions. Imo

I don't like the guy but agree with this. Too many interviewers let politicians weasel out of answering any questions and make life too easy for them.

[Lowbankclaret]

Course you would as it suits your agenda

My only agenda is to know the real death rate. If we know that we can try to deal with this correctly.

[Grumps]

I like Piers Morgan in a morning now as he is the only frontman who asks the Politicians hard and difficult questions and it is not his fault that they don’t answer the questions but give answers avoiding the question.
Whereas the nice guys on BBC ask questions and when they don’t get an answer say thanks very much for being on the programme.
They should have Andrew Neill asking the questions
All about opinions. Imo

I think you'll find it is his fault they don't answer the question

[Billy Balfour]

How times change, eh. Some of those lambasting this Piers guy were on the same song sheet as him not so long. Funny old world, innit.

[ClaretMoffitt]

I like Piers Morgan in a morning now as he is the only frontman who asks the Politicians hard and difficult questions and it is not his fault that they don’t answer the questions but give answers avoiding the question.
Whereas the nice guys on BBC ask questions and when they don’t get an answer say thanks very much for being on the programme.
They should have Andrew Neill asking the questions
All about opinions. Imo

I've seen his rampages recently

Shouting loaded questions at MP's knowing full well that in many instances those answers do not yet exist because these crisis hasn't even been going on long enough to have that type of data yet; then interrupting them mid-answer with another loaded question to keep throwing them off balance. Its not an interview style, its bully boy tactics but in fairness its exactly what the labour activists want to see so they are throwing their support behind him despite hating him up until now.

The cynic in me can't help but feel this is a targeted attack on a government that refused to go on his show during the election campaign which is was very vocal in airing his anger about, every, single morning.

[ants_g]

I actually don't mind his style BUT the phone hacking was indefensible. No way did he not know about it.

[Cajun]

I went through journalism school with him in the mid 80s. He was a pompous a-hole then and has just got worse. Made the most of knowing some very influential people to climb the ladder to edit national newspapers but got found out pretty quick at that level. (He never liked me after a didn't pick him for a 5-a-side competition team )

[Hibsclaret]

Just seen his comments on Trump and our government in a 12 minute clip with CNN. I have to say I don’t like the bloke but he is absolutely spot on with what he says there for 12 minutes...very impressive tbh

[The Enclosure]

He has always been number 1 on my pr1ck list.

[AlargeClaret]

Hugely popular and surprisingly good morning show host .He’s not afraid to stick it to either side . His gentle slide into champagne socialism has been a very successful monied one . From oily ( but very well connected ) gossip columnist to national broadcaster . Ultimately he’s a reformed crook who happily and very illegally ramped shares , faked pics of British soldiers “ committing torture “ and was a very big phone tapping player , amazed he dodged prison . Clarkson chinned him a few yrs back too

[kritichris]

I used to quite like his style but he is now feeding on his own ego.

He'll be dining for awhile then.

[Wile E Coyote]

ITV have a pool of tabloidy types ranging from the dross of eamon holmes, holly willoughby, and schofield, to the equallyvile morgan.
The channel is like the Sun newspaper, it is intended to make people who soak that nonsense up feel like they are getting to grips with topical news in the morning. They aren't .
The interviews he conducts are never meant to cause shock, they are just vehicles for him to shout down any interviewee, and the audiences adore him for it because they are in the main dim.

[CardyTheClaret]

My only agenda is to know the real death rate. If we know that we can try to deal with this correctly.

You do though, apparently. You stated it above.

[Spijed]

He did ask a valid question to the Minister for Care Helen Whately as to why she found the situation amusing when she couldn't stop smiling whilst being interviewed.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... eaths.html

[TVC15]

He did ask a valid question to the Minister for Care Helen Whately as to why she found the situation amusing when she couldn't stop smiling whilst being interviewed.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... eaths.html

I can’t stand Whately - she is arrogant and comes across poorly when I have seen her on tv.
But she was very clearly not smiling at the 4,000 deaths in care homes and Morgan was being his usual obnoxious harassing self.
If she has this very unfortunate habit of having that goofy look on her face then she’d be advised to stay out of the media for a few months - especially being interviewed by this tit.

[Brunlea]

His style is to bully and shout at people particularly public servants. He has demeaned some very well respected people who won't go on his programme again. He doesn't often front up to people who can and will fight back and you can see he changes his style to suit. He does make the odd good point but his bullying style achieves nothing. He should spend a bit of time watching the guy on "Hard Talk" who has the ability to ask absolute crippling questions in a calm professional manner.

[fatboy47]

Morgan is a c*nt.

Always has been.

[dermotdermot]

He has always been number 1 on my pr1ck list.

Oh? Who’s number 2 then?