Rangers tell Graham Spiers & Chris McLaughlin they are "no longer welcome at Ibrox"

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exposingtherhats

 

The “bans”, right decisions made for the wrong reasons

Posted on August 1, 2015 by exposingtherhats

 

https://exposingtherhats.wordpress.com/2015/08/01/the-bans-right-decisions-made-for-the-wrong-reasons/

 

In what way is Jim Traynor still involved with Rangers?

That article suggests he was behind the bans for both Spiers & McLauchlin.

Edited August 1, 2015 by RANGERRAB

[colinstein 294]

I think Traynor's pr company represents us

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In what way is Jim Traynor still involved with Rangers?

That article suggests he was behind the bans for both Spiers & McLauchlin.

 

Back in January Jim Traynor & Stephen Kerr started a PR company called Level5PR and I think their first clients were probably Dave King & co. Then after Dave King & co took control of Rangers at the EGM in March Jack Irvine's PR company Media House were hunted and Level5PR took over the Club's PR work.

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With regard to the BBC and their Scotland branch, there is a thread over at FF now that lists stuff that has happened over the years. We've collected some stuff on our German board too and it is astonishing how much has happened ... and how unopposed it went on for year after year ...

 

http://forum.followfollow.com/showthread.php?t=1059068

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Which makes the withdrawing of privilege from Spiers all the dafter. Focus on the huge story here, which would be a BBC employee taking stories for cash - if true, end of the line for yer man. Spiers is a written media diversion which allows baldy to sail on at the BBC, when we want the spotlight firmly on his chrome dome. Clive James has been here already:

 

"And there is nothing more covetable in the whole land of the media than a solid BBC radio audience. When I did “A Point of View” for Radio 4 it used to pull three million people. This programme will do at least as well. And people will remember it and discuss it. The journalists for the cheap press are uneasily aware that nobody cares much about what they say. Hence their sad conviction that they can say things any way they like, even if it means staging a man’s funeral for him just because he makes a few down-in-the-mouth remarks. Talk about getting the hearse before the horse."

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BBC refuse to send staff to Ibrox after Rangers ban senior reporter Chris McLaughlin in coverage row

 

RANGERS bosses were unhappy with a report filed by McLaughlin over fans' arrests following a match against Hibs.

 

BBC Scotland will today refuse to send staff to Ibrox after Rangers banned one of their reporters.

 

Their boycott will begin with *Rangers’ League Cup tie with *Peterhead in Glasgow.

 

The BBC said they had no choice after senior sports reporter Chris McLaughlin was told to stay away.

 

He was banned after being accused of *filing *misleading and unbalanced reports by the Ibrox club.

 

The Peterhead game was not due to be televised by the BBC but they will now have no staff at the stadium for live radio or online updates.

 

Yesterday, the BBC said the ban was “unjustifiable” and that they stood by their staff’s professionalism.

 

A spokesman added: “We are *disappointed that Rangers have decided to ban our reporter Chris McLaughlin from Ibrox.

 

“We defend our journalists’ right to report on the club.

 

“While the ban is in operation we will not be sending any other staff to Ibrox to cover any activities at the club.

 

“We’ll report matches in the same way, just not from the ground.”

 

The boycott is set to affect Rangers’ games in the Ladbrokes Championship against St Mirren on Friday and Hibernian on August 23.

 

A Rangers spokesman said: “The decision wasn’t taken lightly. It wasn’t a kneejerk reaction.

 

“The BBC don’t seem to be *applying proper checks and rules within their sports department.

 

“Instead of taking this illogical decision, they might first have looked at the work that concerns us because from that particular reporter, we believe, there has been a consistent failure to obtain a balanced view.”

 

He said that if the BBC failed to broadcast matches it would have “zero impact” on the club.

 

He added: “Rangers have a massive support base, all of whom will be paying their TV licence to the BBC. Many of them will be unhappy.

 

“All we are asking for is the right to have our business reported in a fair and balanced manner.”

 

The club say their concerns with the reporter’s work came to a head last week when they claim he unfairly focused on the arrest of Rangers fans after the club’s 6-2 win over Hibs.

 

The spokesman added: “At the game you had police praising both sets of fans but he led on the fact Rangers could be in trouble because two people were arrested for *alleged sectarian chants.”

 

The club also banned Times sports writer Graham Spiers last week after accusing him of unfairly criticising the club. He rejects the accusation.

 

In May 2013, Mclaughlin and BBC colleague Chick Young were asked to leave Ibrox, after the BBC revealed an alleged plot to sack manager Ally McCoist.

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/bbc-refuse-send-staff-ibrox-6179565

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all sounds good to me. We neither need nor want the type of reporting the bbc produces. They can shove the cut and spliced reports of managers press conferences and video intros of our managers committing suicide where the sun don't shine. Will at least limit the amount of repetitive pointless questions at press conferences. Mark and Davie probably high fived when they heard.

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When any fan crosses the line and acts as a paid mouth piece for ex directors they deserve all they get

 

That's a slippery slope RBR.

 

Imagine if that approach had been applied by the previous regime.

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Which makes the withdrawing of privilege from Spiers all the dafter. Focus on the huge story here, which would be a BBC employee taking stories for cash - if true, end of the line for yer man. Spiers is a written media diversion which allows baldy to sail on at the BBC, when we want the spotlight firmly on his chrome dome. Clive James has been here already:

 

"And there is nothing more covetable in the whole land of the media than a solid BBC radio audience. When I did “A Point of View” for Radio 4 it used to pull three million people. This programme will do at least as well. And people will remember it and discuss it. The journalists for the cheap press are uneasily aware that nobody cares much about what they say. Hence their sad conviction that they can say things any way they like, even if it means staging a man’s funeral for him just because he makes a few down-in-the-mouth remarks. Talk about getting the hearse before the horse."

 

Maybe it has been mentioned here already, but AFAIK Keith Jackson is banned from Yahoo-land for a quite some time now. And he is by far not as marginalized a journalist as Spiers has become.

 

The media will cry havoc for a few days, perhaps weeks - be it about Spiers or Scrote. Freedom of the press and all the usual mantras. Defending their own rather than look at what has been going on. And then they will move on to another topic. We should step back from the "Scottish media nexus" for a second and look at the bigger picture here. What might look like a storm beyond Hadrian's Wall at this moment and time hardly causes a stir beyond it.

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That's a slippery slope RBR.

 

Imagine if that approach had been applied by the previous regime.

You cannot compare this board with the previous one , not even in the same solar system