What does CNN do with Piers Morgan now?

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/richard-adams-blog/2011/dec/20/piers-morgan-cnn-leveson-inquiry

By Richard Adams
guardian.co.uk
20 December 2011

If CNN wants an incisive big-name interviewer, it should consider hiring 
Robert Jay QC, who put Piers Morgan through a far tougher interview than 
Morgan has managed on his primetime show on CNN.

When CNN signed Morgan to replace the venerable Larry King as its 
primetime interviewer, "they haven't hired Mother Teresa," as Morgan 
himself put it. But until the abuses of the British press were brought 
so sharply to light earlier this year, CNN surely did not realise what 
it had got itself into.

Thanks to Jay and the Leveson inquiry into the seamy underside of the 
British media, CNN now knows a lot more than it did when it signed 
Morgan to a multimillion-dollar contract in 2010.

Repeatedly pressed by Jay and Leveson to explain his past statements and 
career -- which may or may not have involved phone hacking -- Morgan's 
memory became worryingly unreliable. By the end of Jay's questioning the 
imperious interviewer familiar to viewers of Piers Morgan Tonight was 
reduced to sullen, one-word answers delivered with curt annoyance.

The difficult question for CNN is: what does it do with Piers Morgan 
now?

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