Piers Morgan was fired from the Mirror. What a good career move it was

Six long, tumultuous years ago, the editor of the Daily Mirror was sitting in his office when his boss at Trinity Mirror called him in and told him to clear his desk. Sly Bailey was earning £1.06m at the time (maybe four times as much as the hapless Piers Morgan). Today, she's on £1.68m. But Piers, replacing Larry King at CNN for a reputed $6m (£4m) a year (while hanging on to his NBC take for judging America's Got Talent ) must be earning well over three times as much as Sly. And the obvious question almost asks itself: who should be thanking whom?