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Yesterday I read one of the best articles I have in years.
You can read it clicking on this link.
It’s called “Scottish Media & The Celtic Tax Case.” In it, the writer thoroughly dismantles last week’s piece from The Daily Record, which sought to suggest that our club had been involved in a Sevco style scandal involving HMRC and LLP trusts.
Almost every Celtic supporter’s blog had covered the story and thoroughly condemned it, but what made this article special was that it was a forensic takedown of the Record’s piece. It was detailed, thoughtful, intelligent, well written and devastating.
It placed the Record’s shoddy report in the proper context and questioned the motives and integrity not only of the journalists who wrote it but the editor who approved it and ordered that it be published.
The article doesn’t actually detail the editorial process which resulted in that dreadful piece, but take a moment and think about what that would have been; someone proposed that article at a meeting, there would have been a debate about its merits, and “reporters” would have been assigned to do it. This wasn’t a flight of fancy from someone; an actual series of discussions and planning sessions would have gone into an article like that.
Which makes it somehow worse.
Bear that in mind when you read the rest of this article, because I want to look at the reason why it’s important to keep on challenging this kind of nonsense, and why blogs like this one, like CQN, like Celtic Underground, E-Tims, IndyCelts, VideoCelts and others will always be watching these people and taking them on.
I know many Celtic fans don’t read the mainstream press any longer. Some of them think that this kind of thing is unimportant as a result. They couldn’t be more wrong.
These are just some of the reasons why.
To read the next page click on the link above.