Charlotte Fakeovers has published an alleged invoice that shows how BBC policy can be bought and paid for.
The anonymous twitter account has turned its attention in recent weeks to the activities of the PR company Media House who included Rangers among their clients.
Charlotte appears to have almost unlimited access to documentation involving various parties involved with the Ibrox club in recent times.
The latest document published online details the May 2011 invoice from Media House to the football club- the month in which former billionaire Craig Whyte bought the club for £1.
Naturally painting Whyte in the best possible light was a priority for the PR firm but for reasons unknown the club was invoiced for a ‘Call to the BBC to define pro-IRA songs’ on May 16.
Five days later, having ignored the issue of contentious by supporters at the League Cup Final between Celtic and Rangers in March, BBC anchor-man Rob MacLean decided to accuse Celtic fans of singing sectarian songs at the Scottish Cup Final with Motherwell.
Using a favoured old tactic McLean changed the conversation from football with Craig Levein to reveal: “I’d love to go through a football show without having to mention the word sectarian but at half time I feel that I am going to have to because those outside who can hear the songs being sung have been telling me that the Celtic supporters have been singing sectarian songs during the first half despite Celtic going very public with their intimation that they want it completely stamped out.”
The BBC received a number of complaints about that issue from Celtic fans.
Answering the complaints in a standard email they claimed that “five editions of Sportscene in April and May took time to debate the issue in relation to the general problem and to specific incidents such as the sending of parcel bombs and the fining of Rangers FC by UEFA.”
Part of the BBC Scotland reply read: “At the half time interval of our live television broadcast of this year’s Scottish Cup Final the presenter and one of the guests briefly mentioned that sectarian singing had been heard coming from a minority of Celtic fans.
“Given the incidents of recent weeks, and taking into account the statement by Neil Lennon posted on the club’s official website just days before the Final, it was editorially appropriate to include this short discussion.
“Sectarianism and associated behaviours have been the topic of much comment this season and five editions of Sportscene in April and May took time to debate the issue in relation to the general problem and to specific incidents such as the sending of parcel bombs and the fining of Rangers FC by UEFA.
“There is a continuing debate around the definition of “sectarian” and we accept that it would have been more accurate for our presenter to refer to “songs that some people believe to be an expression of sectarianism but which many people nonetheless find both offensive and provocative”.
Unless BBC Scotland comes out to explain their change in policy, and the source of the complaints at the 2011 Scottish Cup Final, it will appear that the state broadcaster is there to be influenced by PR companies.
If BBC Scotland decide to ignore the claims of Charlotte Fakeovers then it is possible that more damaging accusations could appear in the future.
Until they explain their position a cloud hangs over BBC Scotland and its cherished claims of impartiality and of adopting the highest of journalistic and ethical standards.
CLICK HERE for Charlotte Fakeovers on twitter
BBC Scotland has never been impartial, Celtic 7-1 rangers (deceased) they tried to destroy the tape,,apart from Jackie burd can you name another catholic anchor.
Gerry Mcnee had mentioned for YEARS the pro rangers anti Celtic stance,, remember bbc Scotland had a rangers European game live from ibrox,,,but the game was played away from home,, all those bbc studios but they paid rangers to use an empty ibrox???? Welcome to Scotland,, corrupt to the pip.
Cough cough cant wait for the next installment squeaky bum time
Plain and simple….. CORRUPT.
The bbc is and always has been ant Celtic and ant Catholic since day one any little news showing Celtic or the Catholics in a bad light They are like a dog for a bone Go with it does not matter if it is the truth or not it is only they Celtic and Catholic they don’t matter here in Scotland the home off the bigoted Scottish man Hail Hail Hail
You can refuse to pay your TVL on the grounds that they are asking for your money to fill you with propaganda, rather than report the truth.
Watch this; http://youtu.be/AODx93gv7N8
I don’t pay anymore 😉
BBC is a Rangers PR machine. All the folk are either ex Gers players or Murdo MacLeod (Rangers fan) & that Pat Nevin as some sort of Token Tim. Worst of it is that last Old Firm game at Hampden, the knuckledraggers were singing anti Catholic & loyalist songs from kick off till the cup was presented & not a dicky bird from Rob McLean etc & it was as clear as day. Yet Celtic sing the Irish National Anthem & folk are saying it’s IRA songs!?
I have been a Celtic supporter since my 4th birthday on the 25th of May 1967.. our house was full of “football” fans from all teams and the thing I remember most was the camaradarie of all the watching fans,
never mind that.
Celtic have always and will always be treated “differently” from all other Scottish clubd because of the “Irish/Catholic” connection.
Did I mention that I am Scottish? Atheist? have no connection to the “old country”?
Why does our club continue to turn a blind eye to the utter trash produced by the MSM?????
for f**k sake people look its an orcastrated effort by those in a position to affect influance. the same type of people the grew up thinking we are the people.
some alternative media. RT news. newsnow/celtic. rte.com.
impower our youth and make them unimployed
BBC ,Establishment……..mmm that words connected to a dead club …….maybe BBC aqe next ?
BBC? FUKM
Again the only article you can actually post on concerns the Huns. I couldn’t give one flying f… About Them or the SFA or the politics or the sectarianism. As a 46 year old Glaswegian I’ve seen it all. I’d much rather talk about the game yesterday or our reticence in the transfer market or our chances of reaching the group stages. Anything but them or any of the bullshit concerning them and the corruption levelled at them. We should be enjoying these Hun free years. And celebrating our football team. They will be back in our midst soon enough with all the shit and aggro that just sticks to them. Leave the politics to the nutters and the tabloids. This football news forum should concentrate on football. Come on you bhoys in green. HH.
Spot on there, pal. So the BBC don’t like us and like Rangers, which conversely exposes the paranoid Rangers masses who’ve hounded the Beeb in recent years as ridiculous idiots. We all know this.
I think we should leave all this guff behind and focus on the issue of us reaping in over £40m in the last year through Champions League money and selling 2 international midfielders and our top goalscorer. And yet with big games looming we’ve replaced them with sod all apart from a gangly striker from Portugal and a couple of centre backs.
Lawwell and Lennon should quit patting themselves on the back and get on with their job.
Time waits for no man, especially football managers and administrators.
The point is , we all know what is , and has always , been going on. HH.
Celtic are 3 players off a brilliant side why don’t we buy them Gareth Barry and defoe would be magic and would get both for 8m
Perhaps the answer is to look for support from the club.
Celtic should refuse to cooperate with any entity which displays an anti Celtic bias unless contractually obliged to do so.
I think that such action would bring about a swift rethink in certain boardrooms.
As long as people live in a basically sectarian society – large areas of Scotland – and we have two diametrically different football clubs – Celtic an Rangers – then the scourge of sectarianism will inevitably continue to be raised.
We can’t go on forever harping on about how the Buns had a sectarian signing policy, yet shout and chant offensive and insulting things at and about them.
Some behaviour from lots of Celtic fans has also been reprehensible, and as they say “It takes two to tango”?
So we’ve went from an article about a public funded supposedly impartial broadcasting company using its influence to lie about our club and smear it with the sectarian brush at the behest of rangers fc (IL)……….to…………..Who cares about rangers anyway,…………to…………ones as bad as the other.
Mmmmmmmmmm
Couldn’t agree more. HH.
It’s a tough job running a football club and doing the right thing so hold off on the negatives and look instead at what we’ve achieved. A club which is strong, honest and proud and one which is in the Champions league and who is making a profit globally. Who knows what is in the future but more of the same will do me just fine. HH