The Piers Morgan Tweet Heard 'Round the World

The short life and fast death of a rumor about the CNN host

If you were doing anything with your time on Thursday other than following every minute development in the rumor mill surrounding CNN host Piers Morgan, you would have missed the news that CNN had suspended Morgan due to questions about his involvement in phone hacking during his time as an editor of a British tabloid.  

You would have missed it because it wasn't true. It was just a rumor in the U.K. that, within minutes, spread among big media types across the Atlantic, and then was proven false. 

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