Even BBC Scotland blank out Chris McLaughlin’s statement hysterics

At 9am this morning the homepage of BBC Scotland’s football page carried 10 stories. 

Not included was the fabricated statement at Ibrox gifted to their unquestioning media partners at The Herald. 

Chris McLauglin, chief sports reporter with the state broadcaster, couldn’t contain himself, or ask the most basic of questions, before sharing the statement with his Twitter followers. 

With a number of videos presenting conflicting evidence BBC Scotland has shown rare restraint in not follow-following the party line from Ibrox. Unlike McLauglin. 

Yesterday the state broadcaster had at least a dozen people paid to be inside Celtic Park led by chief messenger Tom English on Radio Scotland alongside Pat Bonner and Neil McCann. 

It seems that a more sensible head inside BBC Scotland has decided that there is more to this story than the version produced from Ibrox. 

Earlier this year the real BBC in England apologised for a crass tweet from Tom English, clearly those on the payroll have to apply certain standards to their emotional social media outpourings.