EMM News Explorer: Piers Morgan

[replied:]: Er, possibly.

abc 09-FEB-12

[said:]: Great morning to be somewhere (Charleston) where they think cricket is an insect. DubaiDebacle.

irishsun 20-JAN-12

[ asks]: Lead by who,

palestinechronicle 18-JAN-12

[-asks]: Europe and the United States.

palestinechronicle 18-JAN-12

[ asks]: Could you contemplate some kind of land invasion,

palestinechronicle 18-JAN-12

[wrote:]: It is (genuine), and you can tell by the tweets he's doing it himself ... Twitter consensus is the RupertMurdoch account is genuine.

news_com_au 01-JAN-12

[wrote:]: It is (genuine), and you can tell by the tweets he's doing it himself ... Twitter consensus is the @rupertmurdoch account is genuine.

smh 01-JAN-12

[added:]: I’ve known few newspaper journalists who had such a natural affinity with the readers as Sue Carroll.

themirror 27-DEC-11

[said:]: I’ve known very few newspaper journalists who had such a natural affinity with the readers as Sue Carroll.

themirror 26-DEC-11

[-said]: All we know for a fact about Lady Heather Mills McCartney is that in their divorce case Paul McCartney stated as a fact that she had recorded their conversations and given them to the media,

time 23-DEC-11

[-said]: Not unethical, no. It doesn't necessarily follow that it was unethical,

cnn 22-DEC-11

[ wrote]: He sounded lonely, miserable and desperate, and even sang We Can Work It Out into the answer phone,

independent 21-DEC-11

[-yesterday told]: I’m not asking you for his recollection. I can ask him for his recollection when we get there.

examiner 21-DEC-11

[-responded]: I don't believe so,

cnn 21-DEC-11

[ wrote]: into the answer phone,

montrealgazette 21-DEC-11

[replied:]: Possibly.

montrealgazette 21-DEC-11

[-said]: How much privacy are you entitled to if you yourself use your privacy for commercial gain?

latimes 21-DEC-11

[-replied]: The only person who would lawfully be able to listen to the message is the lady in question or somebody authorised on her behalf to listen to it. Isn't that right?

independent 21-DEC-11

[added:]: They are the very last people who should be protected by privacy law.

dailymail 21-DEC-11

[replied:]: No

independent 21-DEC-11

[said:]: I would say the average editor is aware of 5pc of what his journalists are up to at any given time on any newspaper.

independent 21-DEC-11

[-said]: Did I think he was doing anything illegal? No. Did I think it was on the cusp of unethical? Yes,

france24 21-DEC-11

[-said]: What do you expect me to say?

france24 21-DEC-11

[-said]: If you threw something away you are disregarding it and you clearly have no use for it and it is going off to the rubbish tip.

france24 21-DEC-11

[-said]: In their divorce case, Paul McCartney stated as a fact that she had recorded their conversations and given them to the media.

france24 21-DEC-11

[-told]: Nothing really happened on that desk without Piers knowing.

smh 21-DEC-11

[said:]: All we know for a fact about Lady Heather Mills McCartney is that in their divorce case Paul McCartney stated as a fact that she had recorded their conversations and given them to the media.

bbc 21-DEC-11

[said:]: It doesn't necessarily follow that listening to someone else talking to someone else is unethical.

bbc 21-DEC-11

[said:]: Did I think he was doing anything illegal? No.

independent 21-DEC-11

[-told]: I do not believe so, no,

ABCnews 20-DEC-11

[-said]: Millions of people heard these comments when I first made them in 2009 on one of the BBC's longest-running radio shows, and none deduced that I was admitting to, or condoning illegal reporting activity,

ABCnews 20-DEC-11

[-told]: I can't discuss where I heard that tape or who made it,

ABCnews 20-DEC-11

[-said]: Yes, I believe it was yes. I'm not going to discuss where I heard it or who played it to me.

ABCnews 20-DEC-11

[replied:]: It doesn't necessarily follow that listening to somebody speaking to somebody else is unethical

guardian 20-DEC-11

[replied:]: I don’t believe so, no.

breakingnews 20-DEC-11

[said:]: it depends on the circumstances in which you are listening to it

abc 20-DEC-11

[-said]: Did I think he was doing anything illegal? No. Did I think he was doing anything on the cusp of unethical? Yes,

AP 20-DEC-11

[said:]: I'm sorry – it was 10 years ago, I can't remember.

guardian 20-DEC-11

[replied:]: I believe it was, yes.

france24 20-DEC-11

[-maintains that]: because obviously you were running the results of their work.

msnbc 20-DEC-11

[-said]: I don't recall.

news 20-DEC-11

[ said]: Possibly,[*]Well?

smh 20-DEC-11

[-repeated]: had no reason or knowledge to know it was going on

guardian 20-DEC-11

[replied:]: I don't believe so, no.

skynews 20-DEC-11

[said:]: All we know for a fact about Lady Heather Mills McCartney isthat in their divorce case Paul McCartney stated as a fact that she had recordedtheir conversations and given them to the media.

ananova 20-DEC-11

[wrote:]: At one stage I was played a tape of a message Paul had left for Heather on her mobile phone. It was heartbreaking.

ibtimes 19-DEC-11

[-maintains that]: a general observation about tabloid newspaper reporters and private investigators.

kyivpost 18-DEC-11

[said:]: Well, I was there in 1994-95, before mobiles were used very much, and that particular trick wasn't known about. I can't get too excited about it, I must say. It was well known that if you didn't change your pin code when you were a celebrity who bought a new phone, then reporters could ring your mobile, tap in a factory setting number and hear your messages.

nzherald 18-DEC-11

[-wrote]: Someone had got hold of her mobile phone number,

kyivpost 18-DEC-11

[said:]: Well, I was there in 1994-95, before mobiles were used very much, and that particular trick wasn't known about. I can't get too excited about it, I must say. It was pretty well known that if you didn't change your pin code when you were a celebrity who bought a new phone, then reporters could ring your mobile, tap in a standard factory setting number and hear your messages. That is not, to me, as serious as planting a bug in someone's house, which is what some people seem to think was going on.

guardian 17-DEC-11

[-wrote]: RIP Christopher Hitchens - greatest literary provocateur of my lifetime. Huge talent, huge loss,

cnn 16-DEC-11

[said:]: I don't care what it costs, I just want to get the defining stories of the week.

ibtimes 29-NOV-11

[said:]: It was well known that if you changed your pin code when you were a celebrity who bought a new phone, reporters could access your mobile, tap in standard factory setting and hear your messages.

independent 25-NOV-11

[-said]: I'm leaving America's Got Talent after 6 wonderful years. Turned out that juggling's harder than it looks, so I'm going to focus on CNN,

upi 10-NOV-11

[saying:]: The official undisputable [sic] figures for your show on Sat night are started with an audience of 4.38mil and finished with 3.68.

belfasttelegraph 08-NOV-11

[-asked]: the old reliable. If I can't move the crowd, put it on.

cnn 31-OCT-11

[ said]: No one is going to believe me when I say this,

cnn 31-OCT-11

[-said]: More people were working for Apple in China than in America,

cnet 30-OCT-11

[said:]: It’s true that she bought a luxury apartment in Hollywood, but she doesn’t live in it. Paula Abdul does.

breakingnews 24-OCT-11

[ telling]: that life begins at conception,

CBSnews 20-OCT-11

[added:]: I think Carlos Tevez needs an urgent chat with @themichaelowen to learn how to stay happy on the bench.

irishsun 29-SEP-11

[-recalled]: The Insider,

AP 28-SEP-11

[-said]: whatever we can to get this black man out of here.

upi 24-SEP-11

[ asked]: There's a lot at stake here, isn't there, for you?

cnn 20-SEP-11

[-asked]: So, you think there may be some kind of cover-up?

cnn 16-SEP-11

[saying:]: I know that you might be shy and want to dislodge the title, but you are heroes to our family

irishsun 14-SEP-11

[-asked]: I was just like, 'Hey, Dad, you know what? I did your job and my brother and I grew up.

cnn 01-SEP-11

[pointed out that:]: Vicious

cnn 01-SEP-11

[-asked]: But that's one thing that I'm willing to put aside, because I want the best pound for pound, Floyd Mayweather to arrive, September the 17th, across the ring from me.

cnn 01-SEP-11

[commented:]: I know I work for a rival network, but Alex Crawford's live reporting is heroic journalism.

guardian 22-AUG-11

[-said that]: RUDE

ibtimes 19-AUG-11

[-said]: That's why I agreed to come on your show. That's what I want to talk about. I'm not being weird. You're being a little rude.

usaToday 18-AUG-11

[-says]: I'm interested in whether you support gay marriage,

guardian 18-AUG-11

[-said]: I don't think it's relevant. It's not a topic I choose to embrace. It's not what I'm championing right now.

guardian 18-AUG-11

[-replied]: Why, yes,

lebanonews 18-AUG-11

[-added that]: You're a politician.

ibtimes 18-AUG-11

[-added later]: My first ever walk-out in 25 years of interviews,

upi 18-AUG-11

[-asked]: Do you talk about gay marriage in the book?

telegraph 18-AUG-11

[-said]: It would appear the interview has just been ended,

telegraph 18-AUG-11

[-says]: These issues are in your book,

news 18-AUG-11

[-replied]: Uh, not really, no,

ibtimes 18-AUG-11

[ said]: John Goodman came out with a great quote about your performance,

cnn 11-AUG-11

[-said]: You are obviously, to me, always going to be The Dude,

cnn 11-AUG-11

[-remarked]: These riots are nuts why would people do this to there own country. Own city. This is embarrassing for our country. Stop please.

skynews 09-AUG-11

[remarked:]: Millions of people are suffering in this financial crisis, but not looting/rioting/pillaging - no sympathy for these yobs whatsoever.

skynews 09-AUG-11

[replied:]: Yes you did - I saw your bank statements

nzherald 07-AUG-11

[said:]: I have never hacked a phone, told anyone to hack a phone nor published any story obtained from hacking.

independent 05-AUG-11

[-concluded]: At one stage I was played a tape of a message Paul had left for Heather on her mobile phone. It was heartbreaking. The couple had clearly had a tiff. Paul was pleading with her to come back.

time 05-AUG-11

[said:]: I have no knowledge of any conversation any executive from other newspapers at Trinity Mirror may or may not have had with Heather Mills.

mailonsunday 05-AUG-11

[-wrote]: It was heartbreaking,

CBC 05-AUG-11

[-wrote]: The couple had clearly had a tiff, Heather had fled to India, and Paul was pleading with her to come back,

newschannel5 03-AUG-11

[said:]: Heather Mills has made unsubstantiated claims about a conversation she may or may not have had with a senior executive from a Trinity Mirror newspaper in 2001.

eecho 03-AUG-11

[said:]: I have never hacked a phone, told anyone to hack a phone, nor to my knowledge published any story obtained from hacking.

telegraph 03-AUG-11

[-asked]: If anyone can pick themselves up, make a huge comeback, it's Charlie.

cnn 29-JUL-11

[-asked]: If Charlie [Sheen] is to sort his life out,

cnn 29-JUL-11

[-asked]: He was so humbled and sweet, and charming and funny. And had such a great heart, and very honest. And we just had a very deep connection.

cnn 29-JUL-11

[wrote:]: Someone suggested today that people might be listening to my mobile phone messages. Apparently if you don't change the standard security code that every phone comes with, then anyone can call your number and, if you don't answer, tap in the standard four digit code to hear all your messages. I'll change mine just in case, but it makes me wonder how many public figures and celebrities are aware of this trick.

guardian 29-JUL-11

[said:]: There is no contradiction between my comments on Kirsty Young’s Desert Island Discs show and my unequivocal statements with regard to phone hacking.

vanguardngr 28-JUL-11

[-said]: To be honest, let's put that in perspective as well,

bdnews24 28-JUL-11

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