Alex Thomson from Chanel Four news can tell you all about intimidation and threats of violence against journalists who are investigating football corruption. The threat of violence is always there against those who would expose the peepul and/or the SFA. Remember the reaction to Phil Macs book Downfall and the campaign against those who worked on it. (One woman in particular was living in fear, canna remember her name though, Haggerty or something). You do not need to go to Africa to find journalists who have or still are living in fear. Terrible what happened in Africa but we have our own troubles here.
Rich
It was Angela Haggerty who was the book editor on Downfall and this is a copy of some of the abuse that she had to endure.
She was referred to as a “fucking vile cow” and “bitter little cunt”, as well as being called “fat” and “ugly”. References were also made to Northern Ireland paramilitary groups.
Other messages included:
“Still, you can always rely on your good looks to get you a new job. Stamping your face onto Halloween cakes maybe?”
“Always the victim, Hag.”
“Good riddance ya dirty little reptile, back to yer cage where you belong.”
“Hope your life is permanently ruined.”
“There isn’t enough abuse for you, ya wee horrible excuse of a journalist. Bigoted little tramp that you are. Fuck you and fuck yer pope.”
“Someone’s hurting a lot. You deserve nothing cunt.”
“You deserve everything you get.”
“Get back in your box.”
“Some of the replies have been fantastic. And of course some are expected by those that would love to have a go on her.”
“Keep your chins up Angela ya rancid bitch.”
“Go home, get the dildo out and forget all about it.”
Angela Haggerty, who is of Irish Catholic heritage, joined the Sunday Herald as a columnist in 2015 and in late July 2018, after just three months in the job, she resigned as news editor, citing repeated and sustained online abuse. Until the recent editorial shake-up, she carried on with her weekly columns. She has been the subject of abuse and online trolling since editing Phil Mac Giolla Bháin’s book
Downfall: How Rangers FC Self-destructed, published in 2012.
One of Angela's abusers, David Limond, was jailed for six months over remarks he made in a podcast after being found guilty in December 2013 of religiously and racially aggravated breach of the peace. The NUJ supported Angela during the case and she has been a leading advocate against online abuse of journalists ever since.NICE PEEPIL????
