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14 May 2004, 18:27
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Piers Gone....
About time tbh
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14 May 2004, 18:28
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Next goal wins!
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Re: Piers Gone....
piers morgan? has gone?
link?
ink ink?
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14 May 2004, 18:30
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Re: Piers Gone....
nothing on the net yet.
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14 May 2004, 18:33
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Re: Piers Gone....
having said that, its on bbc scrolley headline bit, and people on irc say it was on the radio.
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14 May 2004, 18:33
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Re: Piers Gone....
now we need to find some way to discredit and murder paul dacre.
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14 May 2004, 18:36
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Re: Piers Gone....
Only today he was saying there was nothing wrong, and he wouldn't be resigning, and he was sticking by his story 100%.
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14 May 2004, 18:36
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Re: Piers Gone....
who ?
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14 May 2004, 18:36
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Re: Piers Gone....
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Originally Posted by Deepflow
now we need to find some way to discredit and murder dace.
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14 May 2004, 18:37
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Re: Piers Gone....
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Originally Posted by NEWSBOT3
who ?
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piers morgan??
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14 May 2004, 18:46
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Re: Piers Gone....
Your post did follow one referring to Dacre....
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14 May 2004, 18:47
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Re: Piers Gone....
Well, the buggers should make themselves less ambiguous, then.
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14 May 2004, 18:49
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Re: Piers Gone....
i was refering to the dacre you ****s :/
mm, stop posting in between my reply to someone else.
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14 May 2004, 18:50
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Re: Piers Gone....
Good to see he had the guts to step down after saying he would.
My disrespect for him has now slightly lessened.
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14 May 2004, 18:51
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Re: Piers Gone....
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mm, stop posting in between my reply to someone else.
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Start using the quote button to avoid confusion.
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14 May 2004, 18:52
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Re: Piers Gone....
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Originally Posted by ChubbyChecker
Good to see he had the guts to step down after saying he would.
My disrespect for him has now slightly lessened.
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he was sacked
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14 May 2004, 18:54
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Re: Piers Gone....
It's a bit ambiguous, really, although it's obviously the result of a revolt by the big shareholders and the investors.
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14 May 2004, 18:56
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Re: Piers Gone....
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Originally Posted by BoredOfThis
he was sacked
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SkyNews
MIRROR BOSS QUITS POST
The editor of the Daily Mirror has resigned after admitting its alleged Iraqi abuse pictures had been "a hoax".
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I beg to differ!!
Here
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14 May 2004, 18:58
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Re: Piers Gone....
BBC say he's been sacked.
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14 May 2004, 18:58
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Re: Piers Gone....
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Originally Posted by Stew
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Quote:
Originally Posted by A Statement from The Mirror
]"The board of Trinity Mirror has decided that it would be inappropriate for Piers Morgan to continue in his role as editor of the Daily Mirror and he will therefore be stepping down with immediate effect."
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It's more a case of jumping before he was pushed.
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14 May 2004, 18:59
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Re: Piers Gone....
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Originally Posted by Stew
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read ur url nooob
MIRROR BOSS GETS SACK
The editor of the Daily Mirror has been sacked after admitting its alleged Iraqi abuse pictures had been "a hoax".
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14 May 2004, 19:00
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Re: Piers Gone....
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Originally Posted by BoredOfThis
read ur url nooob
MIRROR BOSS GETS SACK
The editor of the Daily Mirror has been sacked after admitting its alleged Iraqi abuse pictures had been "a hoax".
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You can't read either.
The bit I quoted was from the BBC link.
[edit]
Plus your style of communique leaves me in mind of a 12 year old with typing problems.
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14 May 2004, 19:07
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Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri
Plus your style of communique leaves me in mind of a 12 year old with typing problems.
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14 May 2004, 19:09
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Re: Piers Gone....
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Originally Posted by BoredOfThis
read ur url nooob
MIRROR BOSS GETS SACK
The editor of the Daily Mirror has been sacked after admitting its alleged Iraqi abuse pictures had been "a hoax".
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Yeah the bastards have changed the story now!! Damn them! My bad!
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14 May 2004, 19:11
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Re: Piers Gone....
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Yeah the bastards have changed the story now!! Damn them! My bad!
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He has appeared to have technically resigned, if that's any consolation.
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14 May 2004, 19:12
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Re: Piers Gone....
"you cant fire me! i quit!"
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14 May 2004, 19:15
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Re: Piers Gone....
Actually, the precise statement issued says that the Trinity Mirror board decided that he had to go. So he was indeed sacked.
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14 May 2004, 19:16
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Actually, the precise statement issued says that the Trinity Mirror board decided that he had to go. So he was indeed sacked.
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That's irrelevent; it's the interpretation of 'stepping down' that's the issue DAMMIT!!!!!
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14 May 2004, 19:18
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Re: Piers Gone....
"The board of Trinity Mirror has decided that it would be inappropriate for Piers Morgan to continue in his role as editor of the Daily Mirror and he will therefore be stepping down with immediate effect."
It doesn't say he'll be stepping down of his own volition.
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14 May 2004, 19:19
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Re: Piers Gone....
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Originally Posted by Marilyn Manson
"The board of Trinity Mirror has decided that it would be inappropriate for Piers Morgan to continue in his role as editor of the Daily Mirror and he will therefore be stepping down with immediate effect."
It doesn't say he'll be stepping down of his own volition.
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'Stepping down' is an active action of the subject (ie Mr Moron), rather than passive, so like I said there's room for interpretation.
I blame the Mirror and its poor quality of grammar.
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14 May 2004, 19:46
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Re: Piers Gone....
The last thing I expected when I opened this thread was yet another argument about the english language.
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14 May 2004, 20:02
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Re: Piers Gone....
When I first saw the pictures I thought they must be fake. That was even before people started saying they were fake. The whole thing just looked too "clean".
Piers' reaction ("These are real, I stake my job on it!") seemed a bit odd at the time. But then he is an idiot so maybe I shouldn't have been surprised.
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14 May 2004, 21:08
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Re: Piers Gone....
He's not an 'idiot', he's pretty clever. He just tried to fake something that people outside the media actually care about this time, something that has actual repurcussions.
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14 May 2004, 21:25
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Re: Piers Gone....
Before he was Editor, didn't he use to run the Bizarre! page on what showbiz gossip was going on at the moment.
This makes him ideal material for Editor of any paper, even something as shit as the Mirror...
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14 May 2004, 21:29
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Re: Piers Gone....
He was the youngest editor of wall street at 29 when Murdoch personally head hunted him to be editor of News of the World, so maybe had something to do with Bizarre (in the Sun) but I doubt it. Sure you're not confusin him with Dominic Mohan?!
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14 May 2004, 21:38
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Re: Piers Gone....
No, I'm sure I'm not.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3690297.stm
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Born in 1965 in an East Sussex village, Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan was youngest of four and the son of a meat distribution executive.
He was named after a racing driver called Piers Courage.
He attended boarding school but moved on to a comprehensive and sixth-form college.
After school he studied journalism at Harlow College and worked for local south London newspapers before being spotted by then Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie.
He was given his own showbiz column, Bizarre, where McKenzie encouraged him to establish his trademark - pictures of Morgan with the rich and famous.
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14 May 2004, 21:49
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Re: Piers Gone....
Damn, why am I always wrong?!
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14 May 2004, 21:54
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Re: Piers Gone....
Because you don't use google before you post like everyone else does?
You don't actually believe all these people actually know stuff, do you?
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14 May 2004, 22:03
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Re: Piers Gone....
Piers Morgan is an idiot, he speands time trying to ruin peoples and organisations reputations. It would be brilliant if he never got a job in the public eye ever again. A brilliant day for Journalism.
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14 May 2004, 22:39
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Re: Piers Gone....
Check out the front page of tomorrows Daily Mirror.
Yes, cos it's only Piers that knew they were fak
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14 May 2004, 23:21
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Re: Piers Gone....
"Sorry... we were butt-****ed", more like.
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14 May 2004, 23:32
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Re: Piers Gone....
Anyone interested in photoshopping the front page to read "HAXORED" not "HOAXED"???!!!
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15 May 2004, 10:54
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Re: Piers Gone....
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Originally Posted by Dead_Meat
Before he was Editor, didn't he use to run the Bizarre! page on what showbiz gossip was going on at the moment.
This makes him ideal material for Editor of any paper, even something as shit as the Mirror...
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Not strictly speaking true, as you implied he went from the Bizarre column to editorship of the mirror (or similar).
He was editor of The News of the World first, you know.
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15 May 2004, 13:49
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Re: Piers Gone....
If you decide I imply he went from Bizarre to editor, that's up to you. My statement simply says he was on Bizarre before he was editor.
If I had put 'His previous job at the Mirror was working on the Bizarre celeb page', I might have agreed with you.
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15 May 2004, 14:09
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Re: Piers Gone....
richard desmond should get his (piers) position
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15 May 2004, 14:18
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Re: Piers Gone....
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richard desmond should get his (piers) position
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Richard Desmond isn't an editor. He owns the Express.
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15 May 2004, 14:19
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Re: Piers Gone....
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Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri
Richard Desmond isn't an editor. He owns the Express.
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Perhaps by "Piers' position" he meant curled up on a duvet, crying.
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15 May 2004, 16:53
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Re: Piers Gone....
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Looks like a few other people might be for the chop.
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How are a bunch of circumsicion operations going to change things???!!!
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