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9 Mar, 5 tweets, 1 min read
I don't think he quit. I think he was given the option to make it look like that. I think he was....cancelled.
40,000 complaints to Ofcom in less than 24 hours. Right wing press looking totally isolated in its reverence of the Windsors. ITV already had its corporate knuckles rapped after the role the Jeremy Kyle show played in the suicide of a guest.
The broadcaster tries to capture every demographic to maximise market share and ad revenue but creates for itself irreconcilable ethical issues. Its promoting a mental health awareness initiative while giving Morgan permission to run roughshod over guidelines on mental health
Is there not a market out there for people who don't want to begin their day apoplectic with confected outrage? Is it possible to create a breakfast show that is somewhere between twee and nauseatingly sensationalist? Something that actually nurtures us in the morning?
Morgan will fall upward to another £1500 an hour presenting job. Let's Hunt and Kill Meghan Markle, co-hosted by JHB on ultra-rightwing bin fire GB News - coming soon to a media hellscape near you. At least this time, for once, his targets are more famous and richer than he is.

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Institutions large and small will always produce what they were designed to produce. Britain's biggest problem is that the Institutions by which it defines itself are based on a concept of Britain that no longer exists - if it ever did at all.
The Windsors are an institutional byproduct. Racism is an institutional byproduct. The attitudes that tolerate this are institutional byproducts. Look at the front page of the Daily Mail for a clue as to how institutions behave when they feel threatened.
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