Worst Journalist in the world packs it in

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SwingsitlikeHogan said:
Hope his buddy in grime Hugh Keevins follows him soon.

Stu Cosgrove - the voice of the Scottish football fan (read his excellent exposition on the Armageddon predicted for Scottish football following the fall of the House of Ibroke in Scottish Football Monitor - Why the Beast of Armageddon Failed to Show)
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BTW - all non-Scots who have wondered about all the fuss over The Rangers and why Traynor is the subject of this post - do read what Stu Cosgrove says about the Scottish MSM (Main Stream Media). Then you'll know. I'll give you the link (note to mods - this is a very respectable blog and you'll note that they are VERY careful about what is posted there due to the sensitive nature of the who The Rangers issue in Scotland and the courts). You will note that Traynor is mentioned in the FIRST line of the blog (it's one blog down)

http://scottishfootballmonitor.wordpress.com/
 
Iaing said:
As usual with Scottish football it is a matter of allegiance.

One side of the OF love him, the other side hate him.

It's all a load of bull.
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???? Two points here - 1. There is no Old Firm & 2. I don't suppport Celtic or Sevco. Read his self penned obituary, lets you know everything there needs to be known and said about this poisonous erse.
 
I definitely have no time for Kelvin McKenzie but there is a difference between an editor and a journalist. McKenzie made some disgusting decisions over the stories that he ran in the press over Hillsbrough and other events in the 90s. But he didn't write the stories or not bother researching them.

Most journos only become a problem when they become columnists and they started spouting their opinions to the masses and woe betide anyone who doesn't agree with them.
 
This thread reminds me of a 1960's Giles cartoon in reply to the Duke of Edinburgh calling the Daily Express a 'bloody awful paper'.

Cartoon of the Express editors office with staff looking at the headline and the editor saying 'well at least he buys it otherwise he wouldn't have know that it was a bloody awful paper.

{hope that does not get modded as it was words spoken by the Queens husband and widely published!!]
 
Doon frae Troon said:
This thread reminds me of a 1960's Giles cartoon in reply to the Duke of Edinburgh calling the Daily Express a 'bloody awful paper'.

Cartoon of the Express editors office with staff looking at the headline and the editor saying 'well at least he buys it otherwise he wouldn't have know that it was a bloody awful paper.

{hope that does not get modded as it was words spoken by the Queens husband and widely published!!]
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Not really the case though here. Traynor's hari-kari yesterday was widely posted across the forums, and of course widelycelebrated, which is where most people picked it up.

The trouble with him is you can't escape him, his opinion is writ large in Scotland's biggest newspaper (and his opinions largely why circulation is so appalling in Aberdeen), and of course constantly on BBC Sportsound, every Saturday on Your Call, and frequently midweek as well. Again though, Northsound 2 can thank him, as their ratings rocket as fans across the north-east tune out of his propoganda machine, and into local coverage instead.

The man is a buffoon, and as Paul says, cannot be compared with Kelvin MacKenzie at all, Traynor is far far worse. Remmeber too, as far as football goes, McK upset one team's fans, Traynor upsets ALL BUT one team's fans.
 
Iaing said:
As usual with Scottish football it is a matter of allegiance.

One side of the OF love him, the other side hate him.

It's all a load of bull.
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Utter nonsense! He divides opinion for sure but not straight down OF lines. I certainly don't "love" him. His column is 9 times out of 10 a negative attack piece - some people are able to see that he hits out at everyone.

Don't think that his recent view that it's time to stop putting the boot into Rangers and that maybe there was too much of a rush to judgement makes him biased. Trust me, this man has offended Rangers fans many times over the years. I find his column an entertaining read - when he has a go at Rangers I'm intelligent enough to filter out his hyperbole and see that, often, he has a point.

On the radio, I can't stand his bullying style.
 
SwingsitlikeHogan said:
BTW - all non-Scots who have wondered about all the fuss over The Rangers and why Traynor is the subject of this post - do read what Stu Cosgrove says about the Scottish MSM (Main Stream Media). Then you'll know. I'll give you the link (note to mods - this is a very respectable blog and you'll note that they are VERY careful about what is posted there due to the sensitive nature of the who The Rangers issue in Scotland and the courts). You will note that Traynor is mentioned in the FIRST line of the blog (it's one blog down)

http://scottishfootballmonitor.wordpress.com/
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The one journalist in the Scottish Football scene that I'd say has an agenda is Stuart Cosgrove. He admits as much in that blog, BTW. Seems you can retain credibility if your agenda is anti-OF.

I haven't read this SFM blog before and only glanced through the last couple of posts. First impression is that it isn't very impartial at all but I'll have more time to read it later.
 
Iaing said:
Whoa guys. There might be some wires crossed here.

As far as I'm aware James Traynor ( the journalist in the OP ) was not involved in Hillsborough.
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I don't know James Traynor, being from the sunny south. The point I was making was that KM should be the worst journalist in the world.
 
Liverbirdie said:
I don't know James Traynor, being from the sunny south. The point I was making was that KM should be the worst journalist in the world.
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Agreed!

This thread has a bit of a regional bias. It's a bit like me posting that I think that Fred Dinenage is a rubbish newsreader :confused:
 
therod said:
Agreed!

This thread has a bit of a regional bias. It's a bit like me posting that I think that Fred Dinenage is a rubbish newsreader :confused:
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Well no, KM is known nationally throughout the UK, a better comparison would be if you were comparing Trevor MacDonald because he's on national news, but then that does give us an advantage in judging the issue as those of us in the north know both equally well, as posted previously, strictly speaking, it was KM's editorship that was the issue, not his journalism.

In either case, Traynor is a far worse journo, at least KM made no bones about beating a far right drum through his pages. Traynor makes out he's impartial, and an "Airdrie man", while continually spewing forth Hun propoganda, typical of that in his resignation piece, which was nothing more than a bitter attack on anyone who dared to speak out against Rangers, something he has never at any point done, despite all that has emerged in 2012.
 
Ken Fitlike said:
Well no, KM is known nationally throughout the UK, a better comparison would be if you were comparing Trevor MacDonald because he's on national news, but then that does give us an advantage in judging the issue as those of us in the north know both equally well, as posted previously, strictly speaking, it was KM's editorship that was the issue, not his journalism.

In either case, Traynor is a far worse journo, at least KM made no bones about beating a far right drum through his pages. Traynor makes out he's impartial, and an "Airdrie man", while continually spewing forth Hun propoganda, typical of that in his resignation piece, which was nothing more than a bitter attack on anyone who dared to speak out against Rangers, something he has never at any point done, despite all that has emerged in 2012.
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I wasn't comparing Fred Dinenage to Kelvin Mackenzie but to this other fella, I'm aware of Kelvins nationwide notoriety

I actually think that Fred is Ok , just making an irrelevant point.

Is this thread going to turn into another load of sectarian nonsense ? you can't complain about his sectarian stance whilst using derogatory descriptions of his background!
 
The man is a sad excuse for a journalist and him going to work for them is like a match made in heaven.

One horrible specimen of a human being.

And this has hee haw to do with sectarianism,he is an "Ardrie" man do you not know?

He also has a negative stance toward all things Tartan Army too which contributes towards him being such a figure of hate.That hatred will be magnified by taking up his new position and not just by those of a green & white persuasion in Scotland.

The fact he has even contemplated taking on the position tells you all you need to know about this arrogant moothpiece.
 
therod said:
Is this thread going to turn into another load of sectarian nonsense ? you can't complain about his sectarian stance whilst using derogatory descriptions of his background!
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You'll have to explian the sectarian bit to me, I'm from Aberdeen I'm afraid?
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Ken Fitlike said:
You'll have to explian the sectarian bit to me, I'm from Aberdeen I'm afraid?
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is 'hun' not a derogatory term with sectarian overtones ? please don't confuse me for someone that really cares, just wondering if we were going to get another 400 page rangers bitch fest !
 
therod said:
is 'hun' not a derogatory term with sectarian overtones ? please don't confuse me for someone that really cares, just wondering if we were going to get another 400 page rangers bitch fest !
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Hun & Tim are just what either side of Glasgow football teams are called, nothing religious about it. We don't do that crap up here, but if we did, I'd be nominally protestant, so you can see where I'm heading with this?

Anyway, this is about Jabba's bias and garbage journalism, not religion.
 
You've got my interest now. I'm off to study his work. Anyone that writes for the Daily Record must be a fine upstanding journalist :thup:
 
therod said:
is 'hun' not a derogatory term with sectarian overtones ? please don't confuse me for someone that really cares, just wondering if we were going to get another 400 page rangers bitch fest !
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It is and that word isnt allowed on the forum. (left just this once for reference).
 
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