Cancelled? Give Piers Morgan a call, quick.
The former CNN host who moved to ITV and hosted “Good Morning Britain” before raising ire for dissing Meghan Markle is set to start a new show in which he intends to “uncancel the cancelled.”
“Reflecting on the incident, Morgan has said he now wants to ‘re-platform those who’ve been de-platformed,'” the Daily Mail reported.
“Speaking ahead its launch, he said: ‘I thought the whole thing was a farce and I’m delighted that actually, as a result of the farce, we’ve ended up with a whole network which is now dedicated to preventing that kind of farce from recurring. You shouldn’t be shamed or vilified or cancelled for having an opinion, unless you genuinely are spewing hateful bigoted stuff.'”
His new daily show, called “Piers Morgan Uncensored,” is among the launch programs that will debut on Rupert Murdoch’s TalkTV channel. Its first episode will air on April 25 and can be viewed in the U.S. on Fox Nation.
Said Morgan: “I want to re-platform those who’ve been de-platformed. I want to uncancel those who have been cancelled. I want to basically make a point that cancel culture is as dangerous to society, in its own way, in terms of its attack on free speech and freedom of expression as coronavirus has been.”
“And could be over the next few years and decades actually more dangerous. So, I think if a democracy, like ours, or America or Australia, where this show will be airing, if a democracy loses that sense of what free speech means, and stops defending an individual’s right to an opinion, you’re not a democracy,” he said.
“This show, I hope, and the network will be standing up for democracy,” he said, according to the Mail.
Sharon Osbourne is also kicking off an hour-long panel debate show “The Talk,” which will air at 9 p.m.
She said her show will equally present both sides of an issue.
“Usually, and especially here in America, a network stands for the right or the left, or whatever it is. This is just basically the news with different people’s views on it, by experts mainly, I’m not an expert, but I’ve definitely got an opinion on everything. It’s new, it’s innovative, it’s a place for everyone that’s interested in what’s happening in the world to go to, without being told what they should be thinking,” Osbourne said.
“We’re not telling anybody that they shouldn’t be thinking the way we think, we’re just expressing and opening up the conversation for people to take on even at home after we finish talking,” she said, according to the Mail.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to [email protected] and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.