Summary
Wherever Piers Morgan, erstwhile editor of the Daily Mirror, is disporting himself this morning, we may safely assume he is not lengthening the queue at his local JobCentre. With the resilience of a rubber ball, an ego that needs to shop in outsize, a contacts book fatter than the Yellow Pages and a burgeoning career in the electronic media, Mr Morgan is not a chap over whose temporary unemployment we need shed too many tears. It is not too difficult to imagine why he decided to publish those arresting images, now proven more likely to have been assembled in Blackburn than Basra.
Nothing overexcites an editor more than a good old-fashioned scoop, and if that happens to concern one of the biggest stories of the decade, we can readily suppose this particular editor's adrenalin charge was fairly spectacular. Yet, unfortunately, his decision may have been partially prompted by a brand of arrogance that has been the hallmark of a career where brilliance and poor judgment have often jostled for prominence.See the full content of this document
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The Answer Is Honesty, Not the Deployment of Troops
Having said all of which, it is important that this episode, and the loss of yet another senior media figure over this ill-starred conflict, does not deflect our attention from some major issues which still require very careful scrutiny if we are to have any hope of retrieving our military...
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