Background on the recent media incidents

[ian1964 10,761]

Lifted from FF:

 

Jim Traynor had to get senior Herald executives out of their bed after midnight when he became aware of Gerry Braiden’s astonishing, biased, bigoted and totally untrue story posted in the Herald’s online edition which seemed to be suggesting Rangers wanted to get rid of Joey Barton because he is a Catholic. Which, by Barton’s own admission, he is not. After Traynor delivered a blast down the phone the bungling Braiden’s offending paragraphs were quickly removed.

 

But there was actually something worse in what Braiden wrote. He claimed Rangers refused to comment. Wrong! Rangers were never made aware of what he intended to write and publish. That is something he will surely have to explain to his bosses.

 

Braiden obviously is so arrogant he believes he can get away with anything, despite Graham Spiers losing his Herald gig after the paper had to publish a grovelling apology over a story he wrote about Rangers which was untrue.

 

Of course the Herald isn’t the only paper to transgress. Look out for Rangers publishing a letter of apology from Record editor Murray Foote after Club 72 forced an Ipsos ruling which slaughtered the Record for publishing Jane Hamilton’s now infamous made up story about Rangers supporters in the wake of the 5000 Hibs fan invading the park at Hampden and threatening Rangers players.

 

It wasn’t just Club 72 who took the Record to task after that. Traynor and managing director Stewart Robertson made Foote squirm at a meeting and now the Record will have to eat humble pie in public.

 

It remains to be seen just what Rangers will insist on happening at the Herald over what Gerry Braiden has written.

[Frankie 8,652]

Let's hope this info is correct.

[BlackSocksRedTops 3,806]

The way things are going, we will need a whole new PR/press/legal office to deal with this sh*t. As I said before on the other thread, the haters are not even being subtle anymore.

[Uilleam 5,960]

I think, as I said elsewhere, earlier, that they may be over reaching themselves.

They have come to believe that they may act, in any way, and publish, well, most anything, with impunity, hence the appalling display of bigotry and arrogance at the swinefold,

and articles such as Hamilton's lie, and Braiden's scurrilous speculation.

 

They will come unstuck. Hubris will usher in nemesis, and the sooner the better.

[compo 7,198]

Is Jim Traynor still working for Rangers

[pete 2,499]

Is Jim Traynor still working for Rangers

 

I don't think he works direct but I think we use his agency.

[aweebluesoandso 290]

Two sackings would be nice, Jane Hamilton and Gerry Braindead.

[boabie 230]

Braindead will get removed and the latest Rangers-hating, obsessed sellik fan will fall off the assembly line, straight into a job in the Scottish media.

[ian1964 10,761]

Leggo article from 2012 - lifted from FF:

 

BELFAST BHOY GERRY BRAIDEN

 

Posted: 21 Jan 2012 12:45 AM PST

IT’S always useful for Rangers owner, Craig Whyte and Rangers supporters at large, to be aware of the background of some who give the appearance of having an anti Ibrox agenda.

 

And who are most certainly in communication with those whose very reason for living appears to be an anti Rangers and anti Scottish agenda.

 

 

So step forward into the spotlight once again the local government correspondent of the once mighty, but now fast fading Herald, one Gerry Braiden.

 

Braiden, you may recall, was the Herald man, well connected with the Labour controlled, Celtic minded Glasgow City Council, who wrote the story rubbishing any plans Rangers had of going into partnership with the Glasgow Housing Association to redevelop the derelict land they both own adjacent to Ibrox as part of the G51 Regeneration scheme.

 

Braiden based the tenor of his piece on a quote from a GHA spokesperson who, as well as not knowing the name of the club which plays at Ibrox, did not actually say what Braiden said he said.

 

There then followed a piece on his own website by that most anti Rangers of Scottish exiles, Donegal based Philmacgiollabhain, which was a rehash of the Braiden story except for the inclusion of one name which, for legal reasons, cannot be repeated.

 

Next on the list came an exchange of Tweets on their Twitter accounts between Philmacgiollabhain and Gerry Braiden, discussing the chances of Labour holding on to power in George Square in the May elections, something Braiden must be hoping for, as so many of his contacts there share his apparent views regarding Rangers.

 

So, what do we know about Gerry Braiden?

 

Well, for a start, Gerry Braiden is not a Scot. He is from Northern Ireland, though I suspect he would bridle at being described as an Ulsterman.

 

Braiden comes from Belfast. From, I believe, the Ardoyne North Belfast stronghold of the IRA. A virtual no go area for police during the Troubles when Braiden was growing up. He must have seen and heard a lot growing up there.

 

How, what he saw and heard in the Ardoyne, have formed his views as the local government correspondent for the Herald, is for the paper’s dwindling band of readers to decide.

Of course belonging to an Irish Catholic family in the IRA run stronghold of North Belfast’s Ardoyne does most certainly NOT automatically make a man an IRA man, or even an IRA supporter.

 

It is entirely possible for someone from that background, who saw the horror of the terror the IRA wrought, to rebel against his background and feel nothing but revulsion for the gangsters and killers hiding in their balaclavas.

 

Braiden could well be someone who came out of that slum and through natural intelligence and a good education, saw it for what it was and rose above it.

 

As I said, making such a judgment about the Herald’s Gerry Braiden forms no part of my remit. It is for those who still buy the Herald, given all the facts, to form their own view..

 

I am merely a humble toiler in the vineyard, searching for the grapes of truth.