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I find myself siding with Rupert Murdoch in regards to Piers Morgan so far?

Published on January 18, 2011 at 10:47 AM

(HMG Celebrity News) – I watched Piers Morgan officially taking the helm from Larry King on CNN, with his debut interview featuring Oprah Winfrey last night and I am still kind of on the fence about what I think of him. Morgan showed himself to a well-prepared interviewer, and a good listener who isn’t afraid to ask the tough questions, which I liked. I guess for me though I get this constant air of arrogance and superiority from Morgan, which probably makes him good at his job but hard to warm up to. And speaking of his air of superiority, Morgan has previously declared that he has banned Madonna — from gracing Piers Morgan Tonight, and now tells EW, he refuses to have Heather Mills (he owes Paul McCartney for introducing them), Keith Olbermann (temporarily to really annoy him), Cherie Blair (clash of personalities) and Howie Mandel (just too irritating) on his show. I think it’s awfully pompous for him to be publicly banning people from his show and it just might bite him in the butt one day.  And speaking of burning bridges, one person who seems to want nothing to do with Morgan is Rupert Murdoch.  Morgan told the New York Times that the media mogul has turned him down flat when he was asked to come on his new CNN show.  Morgan first made his name working at Murdoch’s biggest tabloids in the UK, The Sun and The News Of The World, before jumping to Murdoch’s mega-rival, The Daily Mirror, in 1995.  Murdoch emphatically told Morgan he will not come on the show and wants nothing to do with him: “Your chances are less than zero.” The Fox News owner added that “I wish you good luck, but I do not wish you success.”  Morgan does have George Clooney, Howard Stern, Kid Rock, and The Kardashian sisters among some of the big-name guests that will appear on the first two weeks of his show.

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