Much hilarity was had in the Record when news arrived of the arson attack on the Rangers team bus.
One suggested headline was ‘A 140 Miles Of Unbroken Road History Up In Flames’
Not exactly catchy but then again they gave up caring a long time ago.
Record sports editor Austin Barrett watched the McCoist/Traynor interview on Rangers and wasn’t happy. The piece finished with the pointed “for the Record” comment and Barrett went ballistic, it’s a good job he didn’t have a Bud bottle in his greasy mitt.
Barrett lost the plot completely and gave the editorial floor a solo act screaming that ‘Rangers have no fucking dignity, they are nothing. Traynor’s fucking nothing.’
He shouted so loudly the entire staff heard his ravings.
A few huddled in a corner later on having an impromptu meeting asking what could be done about the clearly deranged captain of their ship. Such is the disillusionment in One Central Quay that no-one can be bothered to take action in an organisation which would rather sack a complaining employee than reign in the ranting editor.
Confused why the Daily Record missed the storm around the behaviour of Celtic fans at the Brentford game? Be confused no more.
At a mid-day editorial conference where stories due to go in the paper the next day are discussed Brentford was raised.
The story was given to the News Editor Kevin Mansi to follow up via the local paper down there.
He did nothing.
The future of the Daily Record is in our hands.
Since this blog went on-line on Monday the response from Rangers supporters has overwhelmingly reached the conclusion that the only way for the Record is down and out.
What this blog wants is the club itself to wake up to the fact that the very ethos of the paper under editor Alan Rennie, his sidekick Kevin Mansi and sports editor Austin Barret is not just pro-Celtic but determinedly anti-Rangers.
This ethos has even effected Gary Ralston who wrote the Gallant Pioneers book about the Founding Fathers. His reporting of the Bears who follow followed to Sheffield was a disgrace – the Rangers Standard has written a brilliant article about it.
Yet Ralston has lapped up stories handed to him on a plate by Rangers PR Dept in recent months, the exclusive interview with Brian Stockbridge being a good example.
Compare the way Ralston has acted with his oppo Mark Guidi’s coverage of Celtic in Brentford and their disgraceful behaviour.
Guido knows how to please his Celtic loving masters who pay him £70K per year but we always knew he was a Sellic man.
Perhaps Ralston thinks that if he takes a leaf from Guidi’s book and pleases Rennie and Co he will jump up the pay-scale as now he is on less than half of Guidi’s wedge.
Here’s hoping the club wises up and there are no more favours done by Rangers PR for Ralston or anyone at the Record. We shouldn’t rest until the Broken Record is consigned to the dustbin of history.
The Daily Record was once one of Scotland’s great newspapers, a publishing phenomena whose profits sustained the whole Trinity Mirror Group.
For decades it served Scotland well, but now it is a shadow of its former self.
Now it is a by-word for low standards, poor reporting and stereotyping.
For Rangers fans it is a tragedy that a paper once revered, is now unfit for purpose. The hatred of many of its leading lights, notably editor Allan Rennie and his sidekick Kevin Mansi, for the Ibrox club has been allowed to run riot for so long that it is now a cancer in the bones of the organisation.
The systematic bias is beyond arguing.
What is needed is a wholesale cleansing of the newspaper. The current regime will not do it willingly therefore we propose a long term campaign to pressure the directors of Trinity Mirror to install a management that is impartial and professional.
The misdeeds of Rennie and his ilk will be exposed and how the Record has become a Broken Record will also be exposed.
We’ll be encouraging our site users to contact directors and advertisers to put pressure on the paper to be be cleansed of bias. Please support us.
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