Piss Morgan sacked and Mirror apologises

[Roger Rabbit]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3716151.stm

Editor quits over 'hoax' pictures


The Daily Mirror published photos allegedly showing prisoner abuse
Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan has stepped down following pressure to resign over faked photos of soldiers abusing an Iraqi prisoner.
The Queen's Lancashire Regiment earlier told a press conference the Mirror had to apologise for running the pictures and endangering British troops.

A statement from the Mirror said it had fallen victim to a "calculated and malicious hoax".

The Mirror board said it would be "inappropriate" for Morgan to continue




Hahahah about time. Unfortunately he still won't suffer the full consequences of his actions.

Edit: found this on http://www.arrse.co.uk


The Daily Mirror published in good faith photographs which it absolutely believed were genuine images of British soldiers abusing an Iraqi prisoner.

"However there is now sufficient evidence to suggest that these pictures are fakes and that the Daily Mirror has been the subject of a calculated and malicious hoax.

"The Daily Mirror therefore apologises unreservedly for publishing the pictures and deeply regrets the reputational damage done to the QLR and the Army in Iraq.

http://www.arrse.co.uk/html/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=6842#105693

[DeltaWhisky58]

Hurrah!

There is justice after all! :fork:

[Chris1]

Justice!
what a ****.
Don't trip in the dole queue Piers!

[Argyll]

PWNED!!

[big80a2]

If a Brit get killed because of thes pics, He would have to be triald IMO

[cut]

excellent and fully deserved

[weedman]

Was necessary :)

[Gringo]

Byebye Wanker!!!!!

:P

[scm77]

Cheerio!

[Trident-za]

:) Glad the wanker has had to go.... but is it too late? (sorry for introducing a sad note into this thread).

Might make the media a bit more careful in the future, but.....

[usa320]

prick got what he had comming.

[Steve Andrews]

Laters Piers.

Muppet.

[Ngati Tumatauenga]

Good job, media fukwits.

[Luxembourger]

well done :D :D :D :D


:bash: :bash: media fakes and lies :bash: :bash:

[big_les]

Ding dong, the Piers is dead! Well, he's not actually dead, just unemployed. Maybe we should 'invite' him here to Colchester (garrison town) and see how long he lasts in certain 'establishments' in town...

[martinexsquaddie]

I suggest we get a fund together for some photo's of piers to be taken in the back of a four tonner hopefully not faked :lol:

[oldsoak]

I suggest we get a fund together for some photo's of piers to be taken in the back of a four tonner hopefully not faked :lol:

- have a lotto open to all those serving on Telic ...bugger theres no emoticon for sadistic evil grin....

that pillock should have handed those photos in confidence to the MP's and the army would have been spared this and he would not look stupid

[rafaelcb]

Somehow there was something strange about those pictures: the 'iraqui' with an iraqui flag on, the very clean british uniform, rifle and truck, the quality of the pictures.
The British army staff I've known were never angels, but not that kind of bastards. I am personally very glad that the idiot who publisehd the pictures has been fired. Is he going to be prosecuted in court?

[Gringo]

Ding dong, the Piers is dead! Well, he's not actually dead, just unemployed. Maybe we should 'invite' him here to Colchester (garrison town) and see how long he lasts in certain 'establishments' in town...

He'd end up working for Al-Quida's Propaganda wing. Al Jazzera! :D

[soldierandy]

The Mirror should give the proceeds of 3 days sales of the paper to Armed Forces charities. The day the pics were published, the day they said 'we told the truth' and the day of the 'apology'. Apologies are all a load of BS when it comes from these snakes mouths knowing that they made tons of dosh when they sell the print in the first place and a second time for when they apologise. That has been happenning with tabloids all along. Usually it happened with celebrity gossip and paparazzi type operations but this time they have gone too far.

I would go as far as having Piers Morgan tried for deceiving the British public with an aim of undermining it's faith in the Armed Forces and endagering the lives of his fellow countrymen. Step down from editor my arrse!

[mocking_loudly_died]

Fuktard should be shot.

[GrantT]

It's funny how their apology seems to try and take the blame away the paper (even though they accepted and printed the pictures, which were questionable) and place the blame on the actually hoaxers. :roll:

[Upfrontreporting]

May his arse forever itch and his arms be too short :lol:

[oldsoak]

On a more sober note, we'd better have gleaming orifices from now until we get out. Last thing we want is for those b*stards to have any comeback.

[Roger Rabbit]

From the BBC, views of the public whether Piss Morgan should have been sacked

Editors of national newspapers carry a huge responsibility to report the news correctly and without bias. Morgan's own anti-war bias led him to report incorrectly and to endanger the lives of his fellow citizens abroad. It was absolutely right that he was fired.
Jonathan, Penarth, UK


Yes, yes and yes again. Abuses may well have occurred and should still be investigated, but the damage done as a result of the Mirror's folly is incalculable.
Derek, London


Piers Morgan always insisted that the government and Army take responsibility for their actions over the alleged abuse in Iraq. It is only proper that he should be sacked for his complete failure to understand the full implications of his decision to publish the fake photos.
Simon, Kuwait


I'll say he should be sacked. As editor he should have satisfied himself beyond any doubt whatsoever that the photos were genuine. The responsibility for the greater danger that our troops may be in because of this fiasco lies with Morgan.
Ashley, Coventry, West Midlands


Yes...Mr Morgan should have been sacked. The press has a responsibility to ensure the stories and photographs they publish are accurate, especially when the possible backlash is so great. A simple "sorry" on page 14 after the fact simply isn't good enough.
Mike Long, London, UK


Only the passage of time will tell whether or not Piers Morgan's sacking was right or wrong.
Victor Konwea, London


Yes it was right. The Mirror should be fined an amount equivalent to the proceeds from every paper sold since the photos were published. Conversely, I'll be extremely interested to see Downing Street's response....Can anyone see 'Evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction?" Any criticism of Morgan by the government, for me, will reek of hypocrisy.
Dave, London


Piers Morgan should not have been sacked. Editors can never be 100% certain of a source's trustworthiness. If they had to be, no stories would ever be printed. Morgan made a brave decision - to take the opportunity to highlight the vile and unacceptable treatment of prisoners in Iraq (which numerous witnesses have corroborated). Even if these pictures did not depict a genuine incident, they are likely to be fairly representative of the kind of things that are happening. It is Geoff Hoon and Tony Blair, not Piers Morgan, whose heads should roll - for pretending that the issue of the pictures' authenticity is the overriding one, when it is the wider issue of our troops' behaviour towards prisoners.
Lindsay Wright, London


The damage caused by Piers Morgan in incalculable. The QLR should sue the Mirror Group for defamation.
Michael Heath, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire



It is Geoff Hoon and Tony Blair, not Piers Morgan, whose heads should roll - for pretending that the issue of the pictures' authenticity is the overriding one, when it is the wider issue of our troops' behaviour towards prisoners
Lindsay Wright, London


No, he shouldn't have been sacked. He checked his sources and had no reason to suspect that the pictures were faked. Regardless of which they have led to an atmosphere in which other organisations have been able to reveal their own concerns which the UK government did nothing about. Faked or not (and I don't believe the government have conclusively proved they are faked any more than The Mirror has proved they are not) they have served the public interest by revealing facts the government sought to repress.Simon, UK


Sacking is too good for this irresponsible, arrogant excuse of a man. He should be put in the Tower and left to rot. He must have known the repercussions of publishing those photos whether he believed them to be fake or not.
Sue Woollard, Westcliff-on-Sea, England.


Piers Morgan should be personally charged with libel and made to pay compensation from his own pocket to the Queen's Lancashire Regiment. What he has clearly maliciously taken great delight in doing in inexcusable and unforgivable. If one single British soldier comes to harm as a result of his paper's pictures and words he should be charged as an accessory to the crime. Nothing he or the Daily Mirror says now can undo the harm they have done. Freedom of speech in a democratic country is something to be respected and used responsibly by the press, not abused and debased as it shames us all.
Phil Carter, Bishop Stortford, Herts


No. Given what's gone on in that Iraqi jail, Mr Morgan can hardly be blamed for being misled into publishing the wrong photos. Maybe the paper should re-publish the real photos of US/coalition soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners. This will at least make the point that much of the publicity surrounding the Mirror's "lapse" is to divert attention from the actual and verifiable atrocities that have taken place in Baghdad's jail with British forces' knowledge. Piers Morgan is a courageous journalist who, in this one instance made an error of judgement, but that is hardly worth a resignation. The real villains here are Bush and Blair. Their errors of judgement are monumental in comparison with that of a mere Morgan.
Royston Tester, Toronto, Canada

Sacked? He should be tried for treason. It's sad, that in this day and age, it's more important to sell newspapers rather than find out if a story is actually true. The Mirror has tarnished its image, perhaps irrevocably. Who will now believe a single word they print?
Craig Miller, Basingstoke, Hampshire





I highlighted some of the more contriversal quotes.

[AFG]

Sacking is too good for this irresponsible, arrogant excuse of a man. He should be put in the Tower and left to rot. He must have known the repercussions of publishing those photos whether he believed them to be fake or not.
Sue Woollard, Westcliff-on-Sea, England.

i think we should follow his punishment idea