Why are the media misrepresenting Rangers?

It should be nothing new, malevolent misinformation being spread about our club by the media in order to use us for attention and sales.

It has always been the case, after all. Newspapers lying frequently about Rangers in order to sell more. It is all about the Rangers and we know that.

But when it happens two days in a row and pretty blatantly at that you really do notice it a bit more.

First was the Steven Naismith nonsense. Both Sky Sports and the BBC portrayed this story as Hearts ‘beating’ Rangers to the 31-year old’s signature. Both went as far as to explicitly say that was the case.

Graeme Murty has confirmed Rangers did indeed speak to the ex-Rangers striker but elected against making an offer. The player himself has in fact implied it is the case too. That is all the clarification we need.

But then yesterday Sky ran a story about Bournemouth’s Emerson Hyndman. They claimed manager Eddie Howe had said the midfielder was to be loaned to Rangers, and a decision about that would be made in due course.

However, this is a complete fabrication and what the Cherries boss really said was considerably wide of that mark, as we quoted you yesterday.

He went as far as to confirm Rangers had made no enquiry at all about the playmaker, expressing that no one from Rangers contacted Bournemouth.

And yet Sky Sports stuck with their claim for 18 hours+ that the seaside team’s manager had said otherwise.

Maybe there is something Sky Sources know that no one else does, that Rangers really are interested in taking the player back on loan, and that may well be true, but it is absolutely explicitly not what Howe said in his press conference.

Quite why these media giants are deliberately misrepresenting Rangers and our dealings is not always clear – the BBC for their part have an antagonistic history with our club, true, but on a financial level do not rely on hits or papers sold. Their revenue is almost exclusively through the licence fee and their own form of advertising.

Meanwhile we are unsure why Sky have been inaccurate recently with regards our club; we are at a loss to explain why a normally reliable and decent outlet has been wide of the mark discussing us recently.

Some would argue in Scotland, the Celtic-minded fraternity are unhappy their club has apparently signed no one (correct us if we are wrong, we do not follow Celtic’s business) and Rangers have been hectic in the market therefore wish to douse as much cold water and negativity on us as they can.

After all, that DR headline on the day Cummings signed basically ignored the arrival from Forest and used Kris Boyd’s nonsense s*n rant instead.

If the negativity the press are dealing us right now is fear, We Welcome the Chase.