Press censorship – The hypocrisy of Hacked Off

Author: Piotr VaGla Waglowski, http://www.vagla.pl

Andrew Gilligan is one ex-BBC journalist I have a lot of time for. He started off as a rather left of centre commentator who had his life changing baptism late on in his career when, as a journalist on BBC’s Radio 4, he reported on The Today Programme that a British government briefing paper on Iraq and weapons of mass destruction (the September Dossier) had been ‘sexed up’. His report was based on a private meeting (undisclosed in his report) with respected scientist, former UN weapons inspector, and current UK Ministry of Defence weapons inspector Dr David Kelly.

Hacked off with Hugh Grant? Well Jon Stewart is!

Hugh Grant speaking a at Hacked Off Event
Credit: The Liberal Democrat Party

So Jon Stewart, many in the media thank you for daring to say to Hugh Grant what a lot of the UK media has wanted to say for sometime – that he is “a big pain in the ass”! But Hugh Grant has been waging his own war against the media – so he’s had some delicate handling by the hacks.