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    Chris Graham on the latest CRO pod

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

    Posted

    Shane the mole or perhaps more accurately the mole mentality inside Ibrox has not been dealt with so long as current members of our staff are happy to brief their pals in the press with juicy insider knowledge concerning our club.

    But that's my point, mate. I haven't seen that juicy insider knowledge lately. I've seen normal press behavior from skims like CM who feels like a circulated release on embargo is excuse to "break" a story. There are people like that in every sport in every league across the world, and their peers don't have much kind to say about them.

    Chris Graham on the latest CRO pod

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

    Posted

    Cheers, brother. I may have misunderstood the issue as people were framing it, then. Most of what I was hearing was that we had some sort of undeclared "agenda" in some way or another. My agenda, if we can call it that, is my love for Rangers, and it informs everything we do on the site. And I always try to shoot you guys as straight as I can aim. Always will.

    Chris Graham on the latest CRO pod

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

    Posted

    I don't think that's the point, though. We're isolating one story, one event. And people are jumping to their own conclusions about a "source" or whatever they want to call it. People didn't ask how I found out Chris McKenzie wasn't real or how I found those responsible. I understand this may be more sensitive, but that's the nature of the story.

    For the record, I've said repeatedly now (including on this episode of the CROpod, I believe) that I think the "mole" as we knew it at Ibrox has been dealt with. It would appear Imran was the last of those slipping real info out. People point to the balding sniggling prick at the BBC still "breaking" stuff over the past couple weeks; he's beating the news cycle by a matter of minutes and on just a few stories. That's not breaking anything; that's being a cunt. That's backdoor scooping and doing no work for it. And then when I say, "Well, we had the Imran story before him" people shrug it off and go, "Aye, but we knew that was going to happen." Obviously that's not the case.

    You just can't have it both ways doing this, mate. We use sources all the time at the CRO, I'm sure more than TRS as we deal in more current events as opposed to analysis than they do. And if I started every article saying, "So and so told me this" I'd have nothing left to pass along to you guys.

    And people think we should be held to different standard because we're a blog as opposed to traditional media. The main complaint fired my way at first was that I didn't (I'll repeat that: that I did not) hide behind some journo speak such as "sources said" or "indications are". What's the point? Would the story be any more relevant? Would you be less keen on asking me what happened where and who was in the study? No.

    Look at Deadspin, who broke one of the biggest stories in American sport in January, the absolutely mental Manti T'eo story. They don't just come out and say, "Oh, Jim Boogity gave me and ring and said this" because that's mental. That's not dealing with respect to sources who play an integral part in how stories are written.

    And the cunts I was taking the piss out of deserved it, to be fair. One of them took it quite well and in stride and had a laugh; the other went further down the path of YOU'RE HIDING SOMETHING!!! Which, whatever, that's his prerogative. I could care less. He's asking questions of me he should be asking of someone else given he's so dead set on the notion of the club having slipped me a brown envelope filled with emails.

    I think we have earned respect in our separate ways, and therefore yeah, I find it a little troubling that Rangers supporters have gone out of their way to have at go at us over one particular story and a particular aspect of that story. I work in news, this is how news travels, and no news outlet can sustain its reputation or status by revealing a supposed source for every single piece it writes.

    And FWIW, I thought RM's statement was sound and well prepared, and the guys here know that none of us would ever do anything to injure their reputations or standing in the online community. So that's about that. Hopefully that answers your questions.

    Chris Graham on the latest CRO pod

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

    Posted

    I think Chris put it quite succinctly when it came right down to it: When you start naming sources, whether you're "traditional media" or part of what's clearly becoming the norm for how people get the latest news, eg blogging, Twitter, etc, sources dry up. That's just the facts of reporting, and this was a more old school reporting job than what TRS usually does.

    Honestly, I've heard plenty of it, too. I just shrug it off and take the piss out of people doing it.

    CRO: Solved: The disappearance of 14,982 Rangers supporters

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

    Posted

    Listened to your podcast the other night and found it a very good listen.

    Great to hear! We aim to please, and not offend on a criminal level ;)

    Nice one Shane. Was it you who got this FOI request personally?

    Reason I ask, is I thought you were an American citizen, both by birth and residency?

    It was me. I didn't make an FOI request via the normal channels, just sent in an email to the general submissions for clarification. They graciously turned it into one for me. No clue.

    Whats happening with the podcast ? It wont let me download it through ITunes anymore since podcast 13 ? Ive had to download it through podbean.com ?

    Pod and iTunes are still not getting along. As of Monday there were super-duper techs at Apple trying to sort it out, said it could be up to three days. I'll be checking back in with them later on. Thanks for the sticking it out!

    Alex Thomson And Rangers-Hating

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

    Posted

    Now I'm getting concerned. Are you ignoring all that has been pointed out to you for good reason ?

    Bill has heard about it, Badger has heard about it, and now we have a video indicating it.

    Just how is Bill "point scoring " ?

    Would I be "point scoring" if I grilled toxic about his memorial tweet ?

    Believe ED had quite an ancient frame of reference to it, as he would :7325:

    Alex Thomson And Rangers-Hating

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

    Posted

    Good points, allow me to make a final one. WASP enter it in to google it is second entry as Anglo Saxon, most guys online here should know that one any roads. Daleks Rangers brings up a Leggo and a McMurdo blog and a RM thread, all from last year!

    Aye, that so? -

    There was a lengthy thread here on the Daleks story back when it came out. Some fans who've been around the club for a great length of time referred to it as a term used by the scummiest of the scum for many years, including the man who Alex didn't feel the need to question Bill about.

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