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Monday, September 01, 2003

D Day Gilligan barred from reporting duties:

History, it is said, is written by the victor, but journalists should have some respect for the truth.
Naughty, naughty: Are you from the BBC?
BBC executives denied that Gilligan's departure from day-to-day reporting on the Radio 4 Today programme was linked to revelations last week that he sent emails to two MPs on the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee suggesting questions they could ask Kelly that would be 'devastating' for the Government.
Donald Anderson, the Labour chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, said it was unprecedented for a witness to an inquiry to try to guide MPs' questions.
Mr. Gilligan is about to learn something himself about the sins of omission

· Dorothy Dixie [Guardian (UK)]
· Meister Spinners [BritishSpin]