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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

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JustineMumsnet · 10/10/2006 14:20

We'll forward the special needs question to Piers and publish the answer if we get one. The PR from First News approached us about publicising the paper and we said how about Piers comes on for a chat - so yes we asked him. Hope you enjoyed (or at least were engaged) by it.

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RTKangaMummy · 10/10/2006 14:20

Deffo Stephen FRY

Please MN Towers

NOMurDErousPLUME · 10/10/2006 14:20

JARM - you weren't the only one singled out. Greeny got a ticking off too.

misdee · 10/10/2006 14:21

i hope he checks my blog. it is interesting, honestly

RTKangaMummy · 10/10/2006 14:21

Thanks Justine

NOMurDErousPLUME · 10/10/2006 14:21

PMSL @ two tugs of a dead dog's cock

I'm stealing that one

noddyholder · 10/10/2006 14:22

A more arrogant self publicist who sits on the fence you could not find-today anyway What happened to your aqcid tongue Piers?V dull

desperateSCOUSEwife · 10/10/2006 14:22

justine so basically we have been feeding his own self inflated ego
to promote his paper

MNHQ
JustineMumsnet · 10/10/2006 14:22

Oh and no there was no filtered version provided for Piers - he worked off this thread. Tbh I doubt he deliberately avoided the special needs question - more he was trying to get through as many as possible and that one required a bit of time/thought. Most of his answers were fairly short by the end. But we'll send it on to him again and explain that we'd love an answer if he can manage it.

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UlySCREAMS · 10/10/2006 14:23

What would I ask Stephen Fry? I'm totally clamming up at the thought I'm so in awe of him I think I'd have to change my name to 'talk' to him

redbullbloodandbump · 10/10/2006 14:23

so i take it he was reading everything then??

going to go and be sick now ilove morning sickness

UlySCREAMS · 10/10/2006 14:24

....that is if we get him?

Enid · 10/10/2006 14:24

god no not stephen fry

he is too clever dick

also if you get him on a down day I bet he's really boring

ScareyCaligulaCorday · 10/10/2006 14:25

I know what I'd ask Stephen Fry. How comes you're the only man in history who could manage to make Oscar Wilde look boring?

MNHQ
JustineMumsnet · 10/10/2006 14:25

Well that's one way of looking at it desperatescousewife. The other way of looking at it is that Mumsnet is a natural place to want to promote a newspaper for kids and he's an interesting (if somewhat controversial) bloke to have on for a chat...

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zippitippitoes · 10/10/2006 14:25

tbh it can't have been that easy picking out the questions from the thread, quite a hard format to work from

donnie · 10/10/2006 14:25

as I said before this thread is pathetic. All those ' I want to shag him' comments and ' what style underwear ' questions and then indignance because PM ISN'T TAKING THE THREAD SERIOUSLY.

Duh.

redbullbloodandbump · 10/10/2006 14:25

wounder what jimjams would of made of this???

redbullbloodandbump · 10/10/2006 14:26

i think we should have jamie oliver on next !!!!!

Enid · 10/10/2006 14:26

what was the relevance of Piers Morgan to SN? He's an ex scuzzy tabloid editor what on earth do you expect?

FioFio · 10/10/2006 14:27

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GhoulsToo · 10/10/2006 14:32

well I think there was a lot of 'pot, kettle and black' in all this.

Twig as usual, I agreed with all your posts.

GhoulsToo · 10/10/2006 14:33

yes donnie

redbullbloodandbump · 10/10/2006 14:33

Well ENID corect me if im wrong but a newspaper is meant to educate on current affairs and all news, it would be helpfull if they had a section to help educate children on special needs may not seem important to you but to parents with SN children all of this can make our lives easier as hopefully it would stop some of the staring and pointing at our children

Enid · 10/10/2006 14:34

do adult newspapers have special needs sections?