Piers Morgan is the face of TalkTV
Rupert Murdoch’s latest venture wants to shake up the news in Britain
IT WAS A somewhat trying night for fans of understatement. On his first prime-time show on TalkTV, a broadcast and streaming channel that launched on April 25th, Piers Morgan declared: “As Nelson Mandela might have said, it’s been a long walk to freedom of speech!” His opening-night interviewee, Donald Trump, may be the only person in the world who can make Mr Morgan look bashful. But the presenter has not been hired for his command of euphemisms. His job is to sock it to Britain’s existing news broadcasters.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “All mouth. Any trousers?”
Britain April 30th 2022
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- Brexit has clobbered smaller businesses
- The NHS is in seriously poor shape
- Piers Morgan is the face of TalkTV
- Britain’s student-finance system is being overhauled, again
- In Britain, internal migration is out of favour
- Sir Keir Starmer, the cynical leader
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