The increasingly dramatic hacking scandal that led Rupert Murdoch to close his 168-year-old News of the World newspaper and has resulted in several arrests found its way to American reality television last night. On America’s Got Talent , Howie Mandel referenced it, because Piers edited the News of the World and the Daily Mirror in the 1990s. After an act performed and Piers Morgan praised it, Howie Mandel said, “Piers, that’s what I was going to say. I don’t know how you got those comment; you must have hacked me or something.” Yesterday, Piers was accused in Parliament by MP Louise Mensch of hacking people’s phones while he edited The Daily Mirror, which is not published by Murdoch, citing something Piers wrote in his book —but in the book, Piers actually writes about potentially being the victim of voice mail hacking, not about actually doing it. “For the record, at my time at the Mirror and the News of the World I have never hacked a phone, told any body to hack a phone or publis...