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Piers Morgan online now

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JustineMumsnet · 04/10/2006 17:00

Hello all,
Piers Morgan, former Editor of the Daily Mirror and News of the World, and now Executive Editor of First News, a weekly newspaper aimed at 9-12 year olds, is coming to Mumsnet for an online chat on Tuesday 10th October at 12.30pm. So make sure you make a note in your diary to log on and post a question. If you can't make the actual event do post your question in advance here. Whilst he can't promise to answer every one he'll do what he can (and we reckon he should be able to type quite fast being a journo and all that).
Best,
MNHQ

OP posts:
codMorgan · 04/10/2006 17:35

cd now mitts off
you knwo he likes to get wankered.

CountessDracula · 04/10/2006 17:36

as do I

Blu · 04/10/2006 17:40

Well, this thread is in fitting with a bunch of women talking to the former editor of the news of the screws, n'est pas! Not going to get v far when asking him about the acreage of Norkage in his papers when we can think of nothing but his shaggability, are we??

codMorgan · 04/10/2006 17:40

yes.

we are THAT shallow

CountessDracula · 04/10/2006 17:42

ahem

I doubt there will be norkage in a newspaper aimed at 9-12 yos

maybe the odd breastfeeding cat or something

NOredbullLOTSOFGAVISCON · 04/10/2006 17:43

do we have to be diplomatic and nice to him or can we be rude and parp him and call him a troll

codMorgan · 04/10/2006 17:44

or a mum saying
" NOhting wrong with breastfeedign a child of shcool age.. in AFRics you knwo bla bla bal bal"

lulunaticmama · 04/10/2006 17:45

parp? and ...who is martin shaw ?please , asking nicely..

CountessDracula · 04/10/2006 17:45

this has norks and the cutie seal factor
(only seal norks mind you and I don't think they would be in the mn huge knockers club)

TarkaTheHeadlessOtter · 04/10/2006 17:47

who is Martin Shaw???

lulunaticmama · 04/10/2006 17:50

thank you tarka - but don't recognise him - what is he in or has been in? and parp? what does that mean ? sorry - can get back to shaggability of piers morgan in a mo!

CreepyCrawlyCarmenere · 04/10/2006 17:50

Nooooooo, I'm away, I'm missing Suuzy's do and now this
And he's on my list of blokes I'd want to have a boozy lunch with in a hotel restaurant.
Will you ask him does he need any freelancers please

CountessDracula · 04/10/2006 17:59

Actually I have another Q for him I want to know where he sits at the Emirates (bet it's in the posh bit I am in the lower tier)

YeahBat · 04/10/2006 18:05

Perhaps MNHQ could make the next Top Tip competition prize a very alcoholic lunch with PM. He looks like he'd be a great laugh. Not sure if I would, although never say never after a bottle of wine.
Our book club read his memoir a couple of months ago. Sparked a riotous debate and very drunken evening! DH has quietly nabbed the book and it is his loo reading atm.

CountessDracula · 04/10/2006 18:06
Angry
LittleScarer · 04/10/2006 18:10

Hi Justine

I may not be back from uni in time, so could you ask for me...

I am studying journalism; can I come and do work experience with you? Pleeeeeeease!

roisin · 04/10/2006 18:16

Piers,
I will be at work during the online chat, but just wanted to say how much my boys (7 and 9) continue to enjoy First News. We had been wanting such a product for ages, so (having seen the team behind it) subscribed before the first publication ...
... and 5 months on, on Fridays after school my boys STILL fight over who gets to read it first. So I congratulate you! It seems to have really hit the mark in appealing to children, whilst not alientating or offending their parents. (I have plugged it several times on here - so you owe me a favour already!)

I know a lot of children's newspapers have failed spectactularly in the recent past. How successful has the paper been so far in terms of subscribers and sales? How close is it to being a secure establishment?

LittleScarer · 04/10/2006 18:17

Also, as someone who no doubt has more insider knowledge, what is going on with Tommy Sheridan? Is he now a crazed, self-absorbed liar (who will do or say anything - it seems -
to hide the truth), or a poor little socialist who all the evil capitalists and 'sinister' government agencies want to take down?

I mean, seriously...

TwigTwoolett · 04/10/2006 18:17

so is it better than 'the newspaper' then?

nutcracker · 04/10/2006 18:22

Why is he coming on, what for ??

roisin · 04/10/2006 18:27

Twigtwoolett, it is far less 'worthy' than The Newspaper, but all the better for it. My boys occasionally read The Newspaper at school, but they wouldn't be interested in a subscription.

They enjoy First News as much as The Beano, but it takes longer to read, and they are picking up newspaper-reading-skills: dealing with headlines and captions, pictures, skim-reading, that sort of thing. The competitions are fab too.

It does tend to have a SE England bias in some ways, which grates a little with us provicincial northerners, but that may be inevitable.

LittleScarer · 04/10/2006 18:27

I assume because he runs a kid's newspaper. Not that I have asked about that!

CreepyCrawlyCarmenere · 04/10/2006 18:31

You mean he's not coming on here to meet desperate middle-aged woman who want to bed him?

roisin · 04/10/2006 18:40

I am desperately trying to raise the tone of this thread

Piers, today is the first time I've heard that First News is "aimed at 9-12 yr-olds". Have you deliberately not marketed a target age-range? Why? (When asked I think I have said 7-14 yos, but not all 7-14 yos, iyswim.)

Piers, why have you not yet advertised through mumsnet? Or offered discounted subscriptions or free sample copies through mumsnet?

Mateychops · 04/10/2006 18:45

Roisin, you're not going to be able to raise the tone of this thread - are you Mrs Morgan in disguise????