READER GREG PIPER NOTES that this sounds “awfully Jayson-Blairish:”

Gilligan’s eccentric working practices are well known at the BBC, which he joined four years ago from the Sunday Telegraph. He was headhunted by Today’s then editor, Rod Liddle, who appears to have cut him a good deal of slack: Marsh said the problems caused by the Iraq dossier story were “in many ways a result of the loose and in some ways distant relationship he’s been allowed to have with Today”.

Hmm. Read the whole thing.