Ofcom Receives Almost 2,000 Complaints Over Piers Morgan Interview

Piers Morgan has urged his followers to back him after Ofcom obtained practically 2,000 issues regarding among his current meetings.

The TELEVISION presenter quizzed Care Minister Helen Whately recently regarding the number of NHS staff who had died from coronavirus.

It produced unpleasant viewing, with Ms Whately seeming on the back foot for most of the meeting, being dealt with on her numbers by Piers.

Following the program, the tv regulator obtained 1,900 grievances from audiences who declared the politician was dealt with ‘unfairly’.

However, fighting his corner, Piers today contacted his fans to back him.

Taking to Twitter, the 55-year-old said: “Apparently virtually 2000 individuals have actually now complained to @Ofcom regarding me barbecuing Care preacher Helen Whateley too ‘unfairly’ when she couldn’t answer even basic concerns.

Ofcom Receives Almost 2,000 Complaints Over Piers Morgan Interview
Piers Morgan pulled no punches. Credit: ITV

“If you think I should proceed cooking preachers in the means I’ve been doing, please tell @OFCOM. Many thanks.”

And it didn’t take wish for people ahead to his defence, asserting the former Mirror editor was simply doing his job.

One fan created: “At a time when thousands are passing away weekly in the UK from Covid-19, we must have journalists holding Gov Ministers to account, specifically when they do not comprehend their short or evade and dodge sensible concerns. This @Ofcom is what Piers Morgan is rightly doing.”

During the interview, Piers knocked the minister for chatting absolute ‘nonsense’ when she asserted that just 19 NHS personnel had actually lost their lives servicing the cutting edge during the pandemic.

The reporter asserted that the figure was much greater, making use of newspaper records to support his point.

Ofcom Receives Almost 2,000 Complaints Over Piers Morgan Interview
Ofcom received 1,900 over Piers' interview with Care Minister Helen Whately. Credit: ITV

Responding to his allegations, Ms Whately replied: “I don’t get my information from newspapers, I need to obtain it from the NHS and our researchers.”

In a statement complying with the interview, Ofcom validated that it had actually received a number of complaints as well as was exploring them.

It reviewed: “We are evaluating the issues against our broadcasting rules, however are yet to choose whether to check out.”

Piers invited Ms Whately onto the programme once again momentarily interview, and also she obliged.

However, it’s currently emerged that a more 214 problems have actually been lodged off the back of this follow-up.

Piers elevated the inquiry of the variety of people who had actually passed away in care homes, and also criticised the minister for evidently not recognizing the response.

He stated: “You come back on this programme after what lots of people believed was a car-crash meeting – at what factor do you come back and have a response?”

Bringing up the reported figures once again, he proceeded: “There is a great factor to think that it’s over 41,000 people, consisting of thousands and thousands in care homes, and that is your work to understand this things.

“I discover it extremely disparaging that the care priest has no idea the amount of people are passing away in our care residences.

“These are vulnerable and also elderly individuals, dying of Covid-19, and also you are not taking their fatalities seriously enough.”

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