You may remember I exposed Andrew Gilligan’s hypocrisy two weeks when I pointed out he also worked for the television channel Press TV, funded by the Iranian government.

Andrew Gilligan likes to make a great deal of noise about how he’s such a progressive and left-wing journalist…yada yada. He even commented in that blog-post stating:

The fact is – leftwingers can be liars and phonies too, and any journalist worthy of the name will sink his teeth into the leg of anyone who deserves it, regardless of their political views. And that, I suppose, is the difference between us.

Thank you for giving me the license to write this update then…

Last month Unity wrote ‘Sieg Heil-De-Heil‘, about holocaust denier Dr Nicholas Kollerstrom, who had been outed first by quarsan at Blairwatch. Others including Rachel North also picked up on it.

That led to University College London, where Dr Nicholas Kollerstrom was an Honorary Research Fellow in UCL Science & Technology Studies, ditching him faster than you could say ‘crack-pot’.

Guess where Kollerstorm is now being given a free reign to spread his views. Oh yeah, the nice people at Press TV have been very obliging.

The article, which can be read from here, was published yesterday. Hat-tip to Unity.

I wonder when Andrew Gilligan will have him as a guest on his show on Press TV. Maybe they could debate once again whether the “alleged massacre of Jewish people” was “scientifically impossible” or not? There’s nothing wrong with working on the side for an organisation that publishes and supports a bit of anti-semitism and Holocaust denial is there?

Don’t forget, readers, that ‘award-winning journalists’ like Gilligan bestow legitimacy on outfits like Press TV, which is nothing but a mouthpiece of Ahmadinejad.

With regards to his excellent journalism, you can also see this post by Tom (and a related comment by Dave Hill), which ends with:

The article then degenerates into a series of meaningless statistics intended to give the impression that the city adminstration is costing a fortune without mentioning that it’s actually doing a lot more, too. I get the impression Gilligan can knock this stuff out in his sleep. Award-winning my arse.

Bollocks to him. If you want good journalism go to bloggers. Here are three. If you don’t like them I have others. Unlike Associated Newspapers, they don’t have highly lucrative contracts with Transport for London to distribute crappy freesheets at Tube stations coming up for renewal in 2 years time.

OMG! How dare anyone suggest Gilligan would compromise his journalistic integrity if someone was willing to employ him for their own agenda?

· About the author: Sunny Hundal is editor of Liberal Conspiracy. He works full time as a journalist, commentator, blogger, activist and general layabout. He was voted Guardian blogger of the year in 2006. Also at: Pickled Politics, on Twitter and Comment is free.

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