Rupert Murdoch endorses Piers Morgan

Published January 26, 2013 7:38pm ET



News Corp chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch has issued an endorsement of Piers Morgan, the CNN host who has spent the last six weeks advocating for increased gun control, a cause Murdoch supports.

“Let’s have petition to keep Piers Morgan in U.S.,” Murdoch tweeted this morning. “We need him, as does CNN.”

Though you’d never know it from watching Fox News, Murdoch is a staunch supporter of enhanced gun control. After the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., Murdoch twice called on the President to ban automatic weapons — also via Twitter.

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