Put Piers Morgan in Tower of London over inept interviewing

DURING recent mornings, I have witnessed two female Cabinet ministers being subject to rage and abuse by a TV presenter on Good Morning Britain.

This trial by television was an obscenity. The bumptious and holier-than-thou Piers Morgan, and others of his ilk need to be reminded that this country and indeed the world is at war.

Could one imagine that sort of behaviour going on in the last war?

Perhaps Mr Morgan and others like him could do with a spell of reflection in the Tower of London. Isn’t that what we do with subversives?

From; Graham Smith, York.

HAVING read the letter from Mr David Warnes of Brandesburton (The Yorkshire Post, April 18), I wish to add that I was watching GMB when Piers Morgan was due to interview the Health Secretary Matt Hancock the other day.

The interview showed how inept at interviewing Morgan is – asking questions which had four or five questions within the same sentence, and then not waiting for the answer before interrupting again and again.

Perhaps his questions had a great deal of merit but we will never know as he did not allow an answer to be made. The haranguing style of questioning is self-defeating. I switched to the BBC. I shall not be watching him again.

From: Brian H Sheridan, Lodge moor, Sheffield.

DAVID Warnes castigates Piers Morgan for a piece of aggressive TV journalism, comparing his stance unfavourably with that of wartime when “we had a supportive media which boosted morale against a common enemy and, in no small way, helped us win that war”.

This is not the time for propaganda: I would wager that, in the case of coronavirus, most of us want to be told the facts as they are, however alarming. Denial, in this case, is asking for trouble.

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