BBC Scotland have apologised to Celtic over the offensive tweet last Friday from their chief sports writer, Tom English.
News of Shane Warne’s death at the age of 52 had barely sunk in when English decided that Celtic’s condolences were crass.
Crass would be one of the mildest terms that could be used about English and his tweet, commenting on any death is a very delicate matter and one best avoided if you have no sympathy or respect to express.
Celtic fans and others were quick to call English out for his crass comments, it was a step too far from someone who is naturally hostile to most issues involving Celtic or Celtic fans.
Complaints were made directly to the British Broadcasting Corporation, a week later they have responded to the tweet from their chief sports writer.
On their corrections page today they announced.
On Friday 4 March, our Chief Sports Writer posted a tweet, relating to Celtic Football Club’s statement on the death of Shane Warne, that did not meet our editorial standards. The tweet has been removed and we have apologised to the club for this lapse.
English hasn’t made any apology for his tweet. No comment has been broadcast by BBC Scotland about the tweet or the instruction to have it deleted.
The BBC has asked me to delete a tweet I posted yesterday about Celtic’s statement on Shane Warne, as it did not meet editorial standards.
— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) March 5, 2022
@videocelts Response to my complaint raised last week with BBC pic.twitter.com/HXeEWuAH7H
— Schrodinger’s Cat (@trebletrebleye1) March 11, 2022
The original tweet pic.twitter.com/ipkmWQkGzg
— JoeBloggsCity (@joebloggscity) March 11, 2022
They can ram it.
Scotlands media shame.
Why is that auld duffer still there,once again nothing passing from his lips in regards to an apology.
The guys nothing but a ponce.
The strange thing about this is that the BBC claim to have editorial standards.
Being an egg chasing soup taker, English’s favourite potage has to be Avgolemono.
The main deletion should be English from his job