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Piers Morgan to testify in phone-hacking case next week

By Dylan Stableford | The Cutline – Thu, Dec 15, 2011

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Piers Morgan, CNN host, reality show judge and former U.K. tabloid editor, will appear next week in front of a committee investigating the News of the World phone-hacking case.

Lord Justice Leveson, who is leading the inquiry, said on Thursday that Morgan--former editor of News of the World and Daily Mirror--would be asked to "explain himself" and the comments he made in 2007 about widespread phone-hacking among the British press. CNN confirmed that Morgan will appear before the committee sometime next week.

In July, Morgan's name came up twice during a Parliamentary hearing into News Corp.'s phone hacking, when a conservative member of Parliament suggested Morgan admitted to knowledge of phone hacking activity in his 2005 book, "The Insider: The Private Diaries of a Scandalous Decade."

After the hearing, Morgan, who was not in attendance, lashed out.

"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 or published any story based on the hacking of a phone," Morgan said on CNN.

But in a 2007 interview with supermodel Naomi Campbell in British GQ, Morgan said that hacking phones was not "as serious as planting a bug in someone's house."

"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," Morgan told Campbell. "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."

He added: "Loads of newspaper journalists were doing it. Clive Goodman, the News of the World reporter, has been made the scapegoat for a very widespread practice."

Also on Thursday, Howard Stern announced that he will be replacing Morgan as a judge on "America's Got Talent" next year.

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HumorGoneWrong • 5 mths ago
AAANNNDDD! THIS ARTICLE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE LINK EITHER!!! Go back to school Yahoo!!!!
HumorGoneWrong • 5 mths ago
Yahoo should go back to school. Their news sucks horribly. The correct grammar for the headline summary leading to this article should read "the media insist" not "the media insists". "The media" is plural you ignoramuses! Again "Why the media INSIST on publishing year-end lists before the year's end"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAHOO, DON'T LEAVE IT TO US READERS TO CORRECT YOU SORRY LAME #$%$!!
FedUp • 5 mths ago
Who is this smug arrogant socialist afterall? Nobody that's who.
Foxtards Revil • Tucson, United States • 5 mths ago
He better watch out for Murderdoch's 'associates'!

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