Don't You Know Who I Am? - Piers Morgan

I didn't get this book when it was published, but on the day before a long train journey. I popped into the local charity shop for a book I could read en route and give into another charity shop at my destination and this was my selection- I am glad I did. It was a very interesting story on his life including his sacking from the editorship of the Daily Mirror to the time he became a judge on Britain' s Got Talent and America's Got Talent. The Daily Mirror is not my kind of paper and so I guess I was surprised by his writing - it showed he was more of a journalist than a tabloid headline pun writer. I am not someone who is interested in celebrities, but I felt this ...  Read the complete review

Create the hype but don't ever believe it. So, if you're the latest media type forced to fall on your moral sword over trying to report the truth of the scandalous war in Iraq (Morgan sacked by the Mirror Group who had shares in an arms company), what would Britain's youngest ever tabloid editor do next, apart from the usual TV cameos and newspaper columns. Being Britain's most hated journalist meant opportunities would be few and far between. The answer, of course, was to write a brilliant book, The Insider, an editor's account of what it was like to have the ear of the rich and famous and how to transpose that valuable gossip and cheap scandal into tabloid ...  Read the complete review