for breaking lockdown rules. now on bbc news. the media show: piers morgan returns. hello and welcome to the media show, our guest today is the star signing of rupert murdoch s go new signing, piers morgan and he will notjust have a show in the uk, it will be streamed in the us, it will be broadcast on sky news australia and as well is that there is a column in the new york post and there is a book deal with harpercollins as well. all of which is owned by rupert murdoch, all of which is a significant bet on one man grabbing the attention of the world. let us hear if he thinks this is about with making. how does that happen, how does a deal get thrashed out to? it was fortuitous, the whole good morning britain blow up with the megan marco thing and the free speech debate, it was all writing in the uk, but it was big in the uk and rupert happen to be in the uk and he watched it all go down. they had been toying with whether to do a new network and i think he thought if i was av
to understand that you are positioning the programme as part of a reassertion of what democratic society should have, free speech, and yet you re going to work, particularly with reference to fox with a network, with a long track record of saying things that are not rooted in fact. truths; record of saying things that are not rooted in fact. rooted in fact. why doesn t that. do ou rooted in fact. why doesn t that. do you feel rooted in fact. why doesn t that. do you feel as rooted in fact. why doesn t that. do you feel as uncomfortable - rooted in fact. why doesn t that. | do you feel as uncomfortable about the time i spent at cnn given the way that it has gone in the last few years. given their obsession with the likes of russian collusion. i could throw it back and say, cnn is the bbc of the usa in many ways, it is a network people look at and say, everything must be truthful and factual and for two years they spun a load of baloney and that donald trump, being in cahoots with t
understand why they went down that road, think they were chasing ratings, buti that road, think they were chasing ratings, but i look at that and i think, i didn t support that either. i thought i was wrong. support that either. i thought i was wrong- support that either. i thought i was wrong. you re not going to work for i was wrong. you re not going to work for cnn,. i was wrong. you re not going to work for cnn,. i i was wrong. you re not going to work for cnn,. i did - i was wrong. you re not going to work for cnn,. i did work. to work for cnn,. i did work for cnn and to work for cnn,. i did work for cnn and all to work for cnn,. i did work for cnn and all these - to work for cnn,. i did work. for cnn and all these networks get things wrong and have anchors and presenters who say things that i do not agree with. no that fox expects me to go and with my slightly liberal tendencies and suddenly be a hard core right wing conservative. hard-core right wing conservative.- hard
given their obsession for example russian collusion. i mean, i could throw it back and say cnn is the bbc of the states in many ways. it s a network people look at and say everything they say must be truthful and factual. for two years they spun a lot of baloney about donald trump being in cahoots with the russians to fix the 2016 election. it turned out to be nonsense. now i think, i understand why they went on the road, i think they were chasing ratings. i look at that and i think, i didn t support that either. i thought it was wrong. i ll ask you that question again. but you re not going to work for cnn, you going to work for. no, i m not going to work for cnn. my point being that all these networks get things wrong. all these networks have anchors, presenters who say stuff that i don t agree with. no one on fox expects me to go in with my slightly liberal tendencies and suddenly be a hard core, right wing conservative. what i m interesting is you keep flipping from talking about fa
the country. i would say not even just republicans with what is going on and is not going on in washington. and also anderson part of it is frankly we have given donald trump more earned media than any other candidate and that any candidate could actually pay for. he declared what june 16th. it s now the end of july. it s like groundhog day. every day we re talking about donald trump. i would argue he has earned, earned it? i would are gu he earned it as well. i would argue he is outrageous and great for earnings. they love the turning of the process into a reality show. the way they tuned in let us put us that. this isn t just, i don t think this is just about television shows chasing ratings. this is poll driven. this is when he started to be a serious candidate at the top of the polls, poll after poll after poll that s when the