Or we go after them.
The other 2 options are just dignified silence worded differently.
What will the death of print media mean for the publications that constantly attack us?
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Or we go after them.
The other 2 options are just dignified silence worded differently.
bob1873
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Until the lockdown I bought an Express every day used to read it on the bus home from the gym and when I worked read it a lunchtime. We had various business papers delivered to the office.
Since lockdown I’ve stopped buying a paper might have done so twice at most. They’re not relevant now and in Scotland they ignore the real story (paedophile ring at septic) and politically they ignore the numerous cover ups by the nationalists. So what purpose do they serve? None in my view.
Since lockdown I’ve stopped buying a paper might have done so twice at most. They’re not relevant now and in Scotland they ignore the real story (paedophile ring at septic) and politically they ignore the numerous cover ups by the nationalists. So what purpose do they serve? None in my view.
shug1971
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Not if they are starved of their income. They will be irrelevant soon anyway
I've been reading that in here for over a decade.
So forgive the cynicism when I say it's not working.
This has to be our strategy. Who cares if they hate us, we will never change their minds. But we can make them fear us. But that lies 100% with the club to make it happen, they have to lead the fight.
shug1971
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I don’t know anyone that still buys a paper so it’s definitely coming. I understand what you’re saying but people get their news differently now and it’s never going back to the papers. My point was sensational negative stories about Rangers is all they got.
ronadamus_prime
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They'll all migrate online but it's far more cut throat online than it is in traditional print media. It'll be more focused on click and rage bait articles. Standards will slip even further and many of their Journalists will fall by the wayside. Plus with an ad-blocker you can hurt them financially 
Delboy Trotter
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Surely if they become digital they’d rely on subscribers
Not going to get many bears subscribing to their daily trolling
Not going to get many bears subscribing to their daily trolling
deedle
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The club’s really only dipping it’s toe in the water, though.
It has to bypass the mainstream media by developing its own. Essentially, the aim should be that Rangers fans - and others - click on official and affiliated sites and blogs for news and commentary that are not solely restricted to on-the-field matters before they even consider looking at the Record, Sun, Herald, etc. Online radio should be used to counter and challenge BBC agenda-setting, particularly on a Saturday afternoon.
Celtic don’t need to consider this as they have the MSM stitched up.
Rangers most definitely do because the club and support are arguably in a unique position in world football due to the level of political and cultural marginalisation we endure in Scotland.
Take the recent shenanigans with the SPFL as an example. Now, it is clear that some planning had gone into the club’s original PR strategy. But then it all petered out. Doncaster was given free rein on Radio Scotland to come out with lies and half-truths that weren’t challenged. As matters stand, it looks like we have been outmanoeuvred.
We have to get away from the idea that official statements significantly change anything. They are useful but they can be quickly drowned out by ’noise’. You have to keep the pressure up with material you influence or control. By encouraging associated outlets you can be proactive.
’Sectarianism’ is another example where the club has failed to recognise the reality that there has always been a political angle in using the issue to single out Rangers for demonisation.
SuffolkGer
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Yep, everything will be: EX-RANGERS STAR fumes on Gerrard in SHOCKING tell-all interview.
All headlines will be as vague as possible to reel the clicks in, and quality of writing will basically be non-existant. It wouldn't surprise me if these places end up using cheap labour on Fiverr. Possible that plenty of slideshows start cropping up where the reader must click an arrow to go page to page.
Misrepresentation and skewed facts are going to become even more commonplace and unchallenged as Instagram posts or tweets are spun as news sources. It doesn't help that people lap up what they read as gospel these days, so "journalists" in need of a story only need to scan Alfie's insta and find a picture with an emoji caption to turn it into a "cryptic post on his future."
Just got to hope most people get wise to the bait titles and they're forced to adapt again.
This is it, the internet is just full of click bait now. Look at the Wes interview yesterday. He generally talks highly about the club. Bemoans getting dropped (fair enough . His opinion) that Stevie didn't fancy him (again fair enough, he's the manager) and that's the headline
queensferrybear
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Non. Twitter is rife with people constant swarming any post that is even a tiny bit relates to us, you have certain people with a large following who constantly target Rangers. That is much more harmful than a newspaper printing a story that only their readers see.
LondonBear21
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I find The Athletic an excellent online subscription, but it probably isn't worth it unless you have some interest in all the EPL articles as well. The fact I quite enjoy a bit of NFL makes the subscription worth it for me.
Steve_french
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It'll make a difference for sure. Gullible and simple folks read the paper and take their nonsense as genuine, if they then go and tell other people the lies they've read will soon start to become the truth even though its a lie. The older generation and air heads who read these rags believe what they say, so the nation could do without them. Everyone will benefit without papers.
AlfiesBarnet
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Nothing. Nothing at all.
The usual suspects will still be outraged when insert Red too here, writes about the other guys instead of our guys.
Netflix and Hollywood are a prime example of how outrage culture sells, especially when we know they're all pedophiles and crooks, we still give them £ per month cause a films a film eh?
The usual suspects will still be outraged when insert Red too here, writes about the other guys instead of our guys.
Netflix and Hollywood are a prime example of how outrage culture sells, especially when we know they're all pedophiles and crooks, we still give them £ per month cause a films a film eh?
Truckerman
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Yeah and a lot of them are Rangers fans, I was at the Motherwell game the one Alfie got sent off and the guy in front of me was reading The Sunday Mail!!
