KHOODEELAAR! NO to Crossrail hype and agenda COMMENTARY: Has Andrew Gilligan matched the hype? Has he delivered the truth?

Why write about Andrew Gilligan, again?

The answer in parts.

First part is that he has been very quiet on the Crossrail front. How is that important? Because he said in September 2008 that London could not carry on or live on hype alone...

NOTHING in the past 50 years of London's 'construction' has been promoted as ferociously as Crossrail. That is total and utter hype. yet Gilligan has remained steadfastly silent.....

As compared to Gilligan, EVEN Mihir Bose, - now anchored as ‘Sports Editor’ at the BBC after a hundred years as the beneficiary of the colonialist hospitality of the Daily Telegraph group – appears almost skeptical.

As Bose did when presenting a brief item on the 2012 Games Hosting photo call by Gordon Brown last week.

Gilligan should have been the one investigating the CRASSrail costs and irrelevance and wastes….

He is not doing so…

So to start off with:

What the EVENING STANDARD pieces say about what Andrew Gilligan’s agenda is: HE is VERY complacent and VERY untransparent

No wonder that he has a platform and more on the very ignorant London EVENING Nostandards STANDARD.

The Gilligan piece I have lined to this article was published in the print editions of the EVENING Nostandards STANDARD. On 20 September 2008.

Quite apart from the fact that the ‘economic’ aspects of Gilligan’s piece are typically half-cooked and third hand, his ‘analysis’ of ‘Brick Lane’ and the ‘unemployed’ is also typical of that publication.

Which raises the w3paton- who was Andrew Gilligan, politically speaking?

When he was invented over the ‘Radio 4 Today programme pre-dawn moment sexed up droplet’, the impression that was being given was that he was a rare thing among the BBC.

And with Rod Liddle having lost his spot as an insider on the BBC and thus being impelled to seek – and grab – the odd topical headline by claiming his intimate knowledge and integrity of Andrew Gilligan and so on, the impression was created that may be Gilligan was a rare phenomenon and that he did seek out the truth and wanted to stick by the truth.

When he then lost his contract with the BBC Gilligan’s image was further enhanced.

And so the spot on the EVENING Nostandards STANDARD. came with that background.

And all the hype that was generated. Mostly in his favour.

Has Gilligan matched the hype?

[To be continued]