Matt Buck’s Hack Cartoons Diary (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
The is-it-Andrew-Gilligan-or-not row rumbles on. To my knowledge, this has been a long one. Here is a link to Adrian Monck, Professor of Journalism and Media at City University, questioning some interesting behaviour on his blog way back in 2007. Currently, there is much coverage of Andrew’s comment ‘friends’ here and here. It seems sad to me [...]
Five Chinese Crackers (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
... person responsible as much as anyone else for making the coverage so embarrassingly one sided was Andrew Gilligan. Yes, that Andrew Gilligan. In recent weeks, Gilligan has been getting quite a lot of attention in some of the London blogs for allegedly sockpuppeting.** These accusations prompted Gilligan to windmill his handbag at blogs in his Evening Standard...
Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Oh dear oh dear. Not long ago he was the darling of Fleet Street with press plaudits galore. But now the Evening Standard’s Andrew Gilligan is rapidly becoming a laughing stock. It’s not just the hysteria: using not one but two articles in the paper to launch attacks on Tory Troll (Adam Bienkov), BorisWatch and [...]
Bloggerheads (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
The Tory Troll brings us more on Andrew Gilligan the spontaneous outbreaks of text commonality that occur around him. Here's the question that Andrew Gilligan refuses to answer: Do you deny leaving comments underneath your own articles and articles about...
Bloggerheads (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Those keeping up with the Andrew Gilligan sock-puppet saga will want to keep tabs on the discussion thread under this article....
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Adam Bienkov: Since his investigations of Ken Livingstone's town hall, the 'Journalist of the Year' has lost his mojo, if not his marbles
Chicken Yoghurt (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
... has now been set and the disease is starting to spread. An early adopter is the Evening Standard’s Andrew ‘45 minutes’ Gilligan . He’s been caught leaving comments under a variety of pseudonyms on online articles by him, or that concern or criticise him. When asked directly to confirm or deny whether he’d been dishonest , he chose to ignore the opportunity to clear his name. Why does...
Tory Troll (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
The day after I first accused Andrew Gilligan of using a sock-puppet at the Guardian, a new user named 'Ross281' appeared there, and left their first and only comment : So when this came up a few days later in an Andrew Gilligan column, I was understandably suspicious: "She claims it will cost “£300,000 per vehicle, per year” to bring in new single and double-deckers — a...
Tory Troll (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
The Guardian have very kindly given me a slot on Comment is free today. Head over there for more on the Evening Standard, Andrew Gilligan and London bloggers. Subscribe in a reader
Pub Philosopher (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Andrew Gilligan's article in yesterday's Evening Standard has a slightly snobbish tone but his main point, that the establishment has over-reacted to the BNP, is well made. Now that the statisticians have picked over the leaked BNP list, they have...
Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nationalisation threat to banks Nationwide Johnson ponders immigrant amnesty Govt to issue bi-identity cards Race hatred, police officers and BNP members Kabul: Have we learned nothing? International NYT: Clinton set to be Secretary of State The biggest gift Obama could have asked for French Socialists in run-off vote Somali Islamists ‘hunt pirates’ DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Sunny Chicken Yoghurt - Andrew...
Bloggerheads (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
1. Do you already have a CiF/Guardian account*? 2. Do you think the use of sock-puppetry is pathetic, dishonest and/or damaging? Then please, if you have a moment, read this article and then check in under comments to let Andrew...
Thoughts of Nigel (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
Why? Because Andrew Gilligan has jumped on the bandwagon. Roy Greenslade reveals that Gilligan is writing a weekly column, http://www.greenwich.co.uk/andrew-gilligan/ for the new hyperlocal London community website Greenwich.co.uk. The site is one of the innovations from Uretopia , a company dedicated to launching hyperlocal sites He hasn't though given up his day job at...
Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
... crash-lands successfully on moon DAILY BLOG REVIEW / by Sunny The big buzz this weekend is over Andrew Gilligan vs the anti-Boris blogs! Tory Troll - Andrew Gilligan socks it to the ‘anti-Boris blogs’ BorisWatch - I bet they don’t play this song on the radio Bloggerheads - Andrew Gilligan comes out scratching And elsewhere… The F Word - RIP Amy Leigh Barnes...
