Rupert Murdoch’s TalkTV launched last night, featuring Piers Morgan’s much-hyped interview with Donald Trump — in which the former president suggested he’d run for office again in 2024 — a cultivated “anti-woke” agenda, and a determination not to repeat the technical gaffes of GB News. Whether the world needs another outlet for the culture wars, where well-paid commentators complain loudly and endlessly about being silenced, is anyone’s guess: but only a fool would bet against Murdoch’s commercial sense and media savvy.
Piers Morgan Uncensored was high on drama and talking points, even if short on substance. Trump repeated his baseless claims that the 2020 American election was rigged, claimed that “a lot of people are gonna be very happy” with the Republican nomination in 2024, and suggested he’d cowed Vladimir Putin during his time in office by flaunting America’s superior nuclear arsenal: “I threatened him like he has never been threatened before.”
