Here’s a new spin on Girl Power. A girl hurtles to earth like a missile – heading straight for a primitive African township. Impact! But it’s a positive impact. Where she has crash-landed, houses, schools and hospitals spring up. The tagline for this 60-second TV and cinema ad? “Because I’m a girl”. Not a subtle [...]
Usually voluble and gossipy former tabloid editor (and cricket fan) Piers Morgan was patting back questions from the Leveson inquiry into UK media ethics with the straightest of straight bats today. No I didn’t know about phone hacking (he clearly did as did just about everybody else in Fleet Street, they just didn’t think it [...]
Some might say the former News of the World and Daily Mirror editor is mired in it already of course but former News of the World features executive Paul McMullan, placed much of the blame for the now-defunct Sunday tabloid’s excesses firmly on the shoulders of Piers Morgan (pictured) when he testified under oath to [...]
CNN talk show host (and former News of the World and Daily Mirror editor) Piers Morgan has angrily rebutted Tory MP Louise Mensch’s allegations made in yesterday’s Murdoch hearing that he was involved in phone hacking. Mensch said that he admitted hacking in his 2005 autobiography The Insider. In fact Morgan referred to his own [...]
It was only a matter of time of course, the Mirror (Daily Mirror as was) has long pursued the same rocky tabloid path as its much bigger rival the Sun and the Sun’s Sunday sibling the News of the World. Both the Sun and the News of the World are owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News [...]
For those of you who haven’t been keeping up, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is under fire from all directions. At the last count these included: phone hacking at the News of the World, seeking to suborn plurality in the British media by buying the 61 per cent of pay-TV operator BSkyB it doesn’t currently own, [...]
Twitter, which began selling ads in April last year, will triple its advertising revenue to $150m in 2011 and is heading for $250m in 2012 according to a new study by researcher eMarketer. That puts it way behind social network rival Facebook, which is forecast to hit $4bn in 2011 and Google’s $7bn or so [...]
The day after new CNN interview host Piers Morgan reduced Oprah Winfrey to tears (guests on Piers’ programmes take crying lessons in advance and carry a peeled onion just in case) he came up against the anything but lachrymose shock jock king Howard Stern. And this encounter is being hyped as a transatlantic punch-up between [...]
The ever-magnificent Mad Men is becoming the template for ad agencies, despite being set nearly 50 years ago. Ad Age had the very bright idea of signing up Piers Morgan, about to take over Larry King’s CNN slot, to interview actor John Slattery, who plays politically incorrect Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce boss Roger Sterling, about [...]
What a master of timing that man Morgan is; just as Simon Cowell’s talent show franchise is running out of gas (Morgan is a judge on America’s Got Talent) and every former News of the World editor (which Morgan was for a year) is about to be hauled into the dock over phone hacking, our [...]
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