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Attack Andrew Gilligan and you attack journalism itself!
The former BBC reporter behind the Hutton Inquiry, Andrew Gilligan, was lecturing in Bristol recently [HT: Roy Greenslade]. Regular readers will know my thoughts on Gilligan. Gallingly, I share many of the concerns he articulates (I say “articulates” but you can judge for yourself here). I say “gallingly” because Gilligan frames those concerns as part…
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Unfounded lesbian smears sell! (Well, almost)
The Times (of London) should have found itself generating big web traffic thanks to its print edition making the front page of Drudge. So how did it (nearly) happen? With a little help from unfounded allegations of a lesbian affair involving Hillary Clinton and an aide. Last week the Drudge Report originally linked to this…