Someone call the CNN bookers. It looks like Piers Morgan and Touré are back at their favorite method of scheduling TV appointments; yelling at each other. Just a few weeks after Morgan and Touré turned a previous row on Twitter into a fascinating (and heated) debate on the Trayvon Martin case, the two are fighting again.
This time, the debate appears to have been started by Morgan who linked to a Big Journalism article that uses Touré tweets from 2009 to accuse him of being a 9/11 Truther. This soon turned into phone hacking references and journalism school insults.
Wow. I’m sure you can explain this, right @Toure ? bit.ly/HHUkjK
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 18, 2012
@Toure facts aren’t your strong point, are they mate? That’s what I meant when I said you’re not a proper journalist. Maybe try a course?
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 18, 2012
@Toure facts aren’t your strong point, are they mate? That’s what I meant when I said you’re not a proper journalist. Maybe try a course?
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 18, 2012
Seriously @Toure – give them a call. Want to help you, mate. journalism.columbia.edu
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 18, 2012
.@piersmorgan At Columbia J School do they teach people to hack phones & manipulate newspapers in order to steal money—as you’ve done?
— Touré (@Toure) April 18, 2012
Note: I’ve repeatedly said “@piersmorgan manipulated the newspaper he edited to steal money” & never once did he say “I did not.” Bc he did.
— Touré (@Toure) April 18, 2012
@Toure In answer to your questions: 1) No, I did not. 2) No, I did not. Can I ask you one now? Q. Ever considered anger management classes?
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) April 18, 2012
Ok, I think I have the chronology here down. The only part of this I don’t understand is why Big Journalism was posting an article this morning about three year old tweets. I feel bad for whomever had to keep pressing “Load more tweets.”
If anyone ever does that to me, may I apologise now about the hateful things I said about Transformers 2. They were cruel and unnecessary.
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