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WHAT a week it was for Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan. As if having to defend his decision to publish highly questionable pictures of British soldiers apparently abusing Iraqi prisoners wasn't bad enough, the Mirror was beaten in the courts by Naomi Campbell, criticised in the Buckingham Palace security breach report and slagged off by Tory leader Michael Howard. But it's all in a week's work for Piers, the comeback kid who, as Andrew Neil pointed out last week, appears to have "more lives than a cat".
"Remember that factual inaccuracy is never, ever acceptable," Morgan told a Daily Telegraph journalist, seeking advice for aspiring journalists last year. The irony will not be lost on Morgan. Whether he survives his latest scrape with scandal remains to be seen, but amid the faked-photo hype, the fact remains that, after nine years at the Mirror, Morgan is Britain's longest- standing red-top editor - and is considered by many, including former Sun supremo Kelvin McKenzie, to be the best of the current crop.See the full content of this document
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Is Piers Really the Genuine Article?
PAUL Riddell, bureau chief for the Scottish Mail on Sunday, is le...
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