The Athletic are at it again

[Briggsybear-jr]

Actually complained about that article, first I’ve ever done it. What a disgrace it is & will be cancelling my subscription too.

 

[The Barrel]

He's the absolute epitome of the modern self loathing Rangers fan. Woke, elitist, class concious, wrong minded, and determined to trample over our heritage, history, and fans. I'd rather have a pint with a poet.

 

[Coatbridge Chancellor]

He's the absolute epitome of the modern self loathing Rangers fan. Woke, elitist, class concious, wrong minded, and determined to trample over our heritage, history, and fans. I'd rather have a pint with a poet.

Shakespeare?

 

[CoopBlue]

I'm sorry but that's nonsense. Working for the same outlet doesn't mean you have much knowledge of stuff other writers are working on. Particularly when you're working remotely. I couldn't tell what 95% of the content that goes out on the site I work for is about. I don't have any involvement in it and even when it is about Rangers, I may not have any knowledge of it until it is published.

You think Jordan Campbell was unaware that Buckingham, a colleague, was writing a piece on Rangers - Campbell's 'specialist' area ??!

Mmmmmm. Ok.

 

[CoopBlue]

He's the absolute epitome of the modern self loathing Rangers fan. Woke, elitist, class concious, wrong minded, and determined to trample over our heritage, history, and fans. I'd rather have a pint with a poet.

This all day long.

 

[wee bud's pit boots]

I like The Athletic.

Worth pointing out that that article wasn’t written by Jordan Campbell, by the way.

I haven't read it. Have no intention of doing so.

But is the article in question, a hatchet job on the support? You tell me.

 

[PalefaceRedskin]

Wasn’t him that wrote it. Some other lady's front bottom who has decided to hear what he wants to

Jordan has a lot of making up to do after the scandalous joint CSA piece with the paedo correspondent but it was Philip Buckingham responsible for this outrage.

 

[Est1872]

Can't believe a platform is damaging the reputation of our club and players and the defence is 'aye but they give good tactical analysis'.

Bonkers.

 

[Dr. Strangelove]

He's the absolute epitome of the modern self loathing Rangers fan. Woke, elitist, class concious, wrong minded, and determined to trample over our heritage, history, and fans. I'd rather have a pint with a poet.

I mean you can probably exist quite nicely between that and the other extreme.

 

[Boy With The Blues]

Can someone tell me how i go about cancelling my subscription to this i have tried it in past but can never find it .

 

[The Underfaker]

Was £1 a month for the Boxing and the NBA.

I will now go for the full Heart And Hand Tier

 

[GovanFront4]

I haven't read it. Have no intention of doing so.

But is the article in question, a hatchet job on the support? You tell me.

Literally not seen one person disagree with this.

 

[The Dude]

You think Jordan Campbell was unaware that Buckingham, a colleague, was writing a piece on Rangers - Campbell's 'specialist' area ??!

Mmmmmm. Ok.

Aye. I've been off my work the last two days. I have absolutely no idea what Rangers content has gone out in that time.

 

[grandmaster_gaz]

It has been edited but is still a hatchet job. I’m unsubscribing barely read it now anyway

 

[sh3lldon]

unsubscribed

 

[grandmaster_gaz]

Unsubscribed and gave them both barrels

 

[orjan_persson]

Cancelled. That's plenty.

 

[David Edgar]

If someone says ‘it’s raining outside’ it is not the job of a journalist to tell us ‘someone says it’s raining outside’.

It’s their job to look out the window and check.

 

[bobba]

cannot believe we’re getting done by a journo called philip buckingham.

 

[Heffewiser]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1395016011913515011

I hope the club take away all press passes from anyone at The Atheletic that has them.

Yup. They just want your money. Some really good stuff...but then the pish above. It's not our fanzine but it's not balanced or fair imo.

 

[Milger72]

If I did subscribe this would be enough for me to cancel until at the bare minimum a full apology was released with the author of the article being completely embarrassed. Like others have said you're basically funding an organisation that is showing hate towards the club.

Not for me in a million years.

 

[BrooklynBlue]

It's been amended to:

"A short clip initially aired on TikTok and shared widely on YouTube and Twitter shows players singing along to the Neil Diamond hit “Sweet Caroline” in one of Ibrox’s corporate lounges. Although the audio is not particularly clear, the police are looking at suggestions part of the chorus is replaced with the words “%^*& the Pope” though Rangers vehemently deny this and say the audio is fake."

 

[Discombob]

Is no "investigative journalist" clever enough to contemplate why a team half full of Catholics would be chanting FTP, or comparing it to the identical-sounding add-on in the Leicester celebrations and concluding they probably sound the same because they're singing the exact same f*cking innocuous "doh, doh, dohhh" add-on?

 

[The Barrel]

I love how the absolute halfwits are still clinging to "Glen Kamara sang The Sash man !! Pure sack him an' that ..."

 

[Wilkinsvolley]

The closed shop media department is doing as much damage as any single outlet, if not more.

The more enemies we make within the press, the more these articles become the norm.

I’ve said for a long time we need a media strategy. I know a lot of people just want them all banned but that won’t help anything and more likely just make it open season.

 

[SDF91]

I’m due to renew at the end of the month.

The Athletic is generally pretty good for insightful content, rather than the agenda driven nonsense we typically see from the SMSM. The fact they’ve chosen to edit the article tells you everything you need to know about what Buckingham was trying to do when he wrote it.

There was no attempt to objectively report the facts and no additional context around why it’s believed that the Tik Tok video is edited. Disappointing that they’ve went down this route, but a good insight into the attitude the journalists covering us have towards the club, us and their subscribers.

 

[Badger]

I cancled my subscription and tweeted them knowing for why. Hopefully many di the same.

 

[Gers55]

They have sneakily edited it but it's still out of order.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1395094612801376269

 

[Dulce et Decorum Est]

Damage has been done for me and a sneaky edit says it all. I’ve subscribed for the last year primarily for the Rangers content but enjoyed the European football coverage & the UFC. Even at £1 a month like I said on a previous post I’m out. In the unsubscribe/reason for leaving ‘other’ box I simply stated that the article recently written by Philip Buckingham about my club Rangers was diabolical. Short and sweet.

 

[Sunnyvale_Loyal]

Surprised anyone ever thought they were going to be fair to us given the backgrounds of a lot of their writers. Left wing football hipster type arseholes.

This is it.

A lot of the football hipsters think being hip means being on the left.

They don't realize that knowing a bit about football doesn't mean they know anything about politics.

Jordan Campbell's articles and twitter feed look like someone who is auditioning for the Guardian

 

[Ferrybear73]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1395016011913515011

I hope the club take away all press passes from anyone at The Atheletic that has them.

Christ, these k nuts can't have very good hearing.

 

[Sunnyvale_Loyal]

First of all, their Rangers content is literally a fraction of their entire output, so Rangers fans unsubscribing would make almost no difference to what they produce.

Secondly, I’ve read almost every Rangers article written in The Athletic, and I’ve yet to see one that could be described as “Rangers hating rubbish”. Could you point me to which articles you are referring to?

Then I guess you haven't read the OP.

 

[insanicdrunk]

Editted after the club got on to them

https://twitter.com/x/status/1395111452802011137

 

[Sunnyvale_Loyal]

Article today is not by Jordan Campbell. More than a little ironic that the very posters who complain about the cancel culture in wider life are straight onto the cancel button when they see an article they don’t like.

We need to read articles published about our club whether they are factually correct or not. A free press is important. So for me I think the article is utterly dreadful and very poor journalism. But they write a lot of very good articles as well.

Cancel culture?

No one is suggesting JC be sacked, or not be allowed to publish.

 

[YoungGer97]

How do i unsub on PC?

 

[Sunnyvale_Loyal]

Editted after the club got on to them

https://twitter.com/x/status/1395111452802011137

I'm sure Jordan campbell appears on heart and hands tactics talk , he came across as a fair and decent bear. it's a shame to see how things have changed.

I think you are mistaking JC with a guy named Ally Bain.

 

[Sunnyvale_Loyal]

See back in the day if you subscribed to the FF fanzine, and a contributer wrote something you didn't like, did you cancel your subscription or just not read his other contributions?

What is the point of this? It's irrelevant to the issue at hand.

 

[Sunnyvale_Loyal]

I'm sorry but that's nonsense. Working for the same outlet doesn't mean you have much knowledge of stuff other writers are working on. Particularly when you're working remotely. I couldn't tell what 95% of the content that goes out on the site I work for is about. I don't have any involvement in it and even when it is about Rangers, I may not have any knowledge of it until it is published.

You have no idea what the editorial process is, unless you work for them.

Speculation at best.

 

[SB·]

If someone says ‘it’s raining outside’ it is not the job of a journalist to tell us ‘someone says it’s raining outside’.

It’s their job to look out the window and check.

But seemingly it is the job of a Glasgow Times journalist to write the article “It rained outside and here’s how Glasgow twitter lost the plot over it”.

 

[SC81]

I like The Athletic.

Worth pointing out that that article wasn’t written by Jordan Campbell, by the way.

I was a subscriber until about 3 minutes ago.

The now re-written article about our players was a disgrace.

 

[55 and counting]

This is it.

A lot of the football hipsters think being hip means being on the left.

They don't realize that knowing a bit about football doesn't mean they know anything about politics.

Jordan Campbell's articles and twitter feed look like someone who is auditioning for the Guardian

100%

 

[The Dude]

You have no idea what the editorial process is, unless you work for them.

Speculation at best.

Thats true, I don't but given it is the industry I currently work in (in a very similar role to Jordan's, for a website with a fairly similar range of clubs covered) I can make a pretty educated guess based on my experience. I know for a fact that it is an entirely plausible set of circumstances that an English-based writer can put an article out covering Rangers without the in-house writer who primarily covers us being aware of it.

As I said, I've been off work the last two days and don't have a clue what (if any) the English-based writers have pitched or published on Rangers.

The Athletic's editorial processes may well be different but to say Campbell must have been aware of it because it is about us, is simply untrue.

 

[BrooklynBlue]

Damage has been done for me and a sneaky edit says it all. I’ve subscribed for the last year primarily for the Rangers content but enjoyed the European football coverage & the UFC. Even at £1 a month like I said on a previous post I’m out. In the unsubscribe/reason for leaving ‘other’ box I simply stated that the article recently written by Philip Buckingham about my club Rangers was diabolical. Short and sweet.

Damage has been done for me and a sneaky edit says it all. I’ve subscribed for the last year primarily for the Rangers content but enjoyed the European football coverage & the UFC. Even at £1 a month like I said on a previous post I’m out. In the unsubscribe/reason for leaving ‘other’ box I simply stated that the article recently written by Philip Buckingham about my club Rangers was diabolical. Short and sweet.

I got the $1 a month deal and it’s been enjoyable. I won’t renewing for full price, though.

I don’t see an unsubscribe button.

 

[SJGF5]

I got the $1 a month deal and it’s been enjoyable. I won’t renewing for full price, though.

I don’t see an unsubscribe button.

Head to their website and sign in. Then top left click "you" then "your account". The cancel button is there. (I couldn't see any option in the app to cancel, it just sends you to the site.)

 

[BrooklynBlue]

Head to their website and sign in. Then top left click "you" then "your account". The cancel button is there. (I couldn't see any option in the app to cancel, it just sends you to the site.)

Thanks, I’ve been viewing on the app & couldn’t see anything.

 

[Dulce et Decorum Est]

I got the $1 a month deal and it’s been enjoyable. I won’t renewing for full price, though.

I don’t see an unsubscribe button.

Yeah it’s not on the mobile app mate, you need to login via the website and it’s a few clicks to unsubscribe. There‘a quite a few Rangers supporters leaving comments on the Scotland player of the year article co written by JC and the Celtic equivalent as messages have been blocked on the Fallout article. Basically people are thanking JC for his content but are unsubscribing.

 

[subversive_bear]

I think you are mistaking JC with a guy named Ally Bain.

JC has been on as a guest before.

 

[Tailwind]

i just mailed the editor and said unless the article was re-worded or removed I would cancel my sub.

Only language they understand. Hit them where it hurts. In the pocket.

Unfortunately a while back, I bought an athletic subscription for my brother but will be expressly telling family members never to do the same for me

 

[PalefaceRedskin]

This is the first article I’ve seen from them that I’d consider inaccurate or egregious in regards to us, and it wasn’t written by Jordan Campbell.

Still doesn’t reflect a consistent pattern of “Rangers hating rubbish” which seems to be the narrative on here.

Jordan’s CSA article was shameful ( and I like his football stuff) and the podcast raised a lot of pulses.

 

[Tailwind]

The guy who wrote it is a Leeds fan and reporter who has clearly been told to write this. The egregious paragraph about the video of the players aside, there’s really nothing opinionated or interesting in the article at all. It’s just a bland nothing article that tries to recap what happened at the weekend.

It’s not exactly Keith Jackson or Bill Leckie levels of hatred we’re talking about here, is it?

Head in the sand