Sunday Herald in 'Hot Water' Over Huddle Comment

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  chdot 18/04/2008
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• "What a load of drivel! Who could possibly be offended by this nonsense. I don't doubt that some idiots at Celtic Park might want Jesus to manage the team, however, most of the supporters are happy to have a manager who's competent whatever his provenence. As 'bead-rattler' myself, I have no objection to somebody suggesting this, were it true, the problem is, it isn't. I'm speaking for the majority here, not the lunatics who think transubstantiation is haulage firm."
  Midge 18/04/2008
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• "Webmaster Thanks for your response. I appreciate your comment about the speed at which news works. However, as Broken Record points out, it is a disingenuous headline, as the story is not about a (or the) 'Huddle comment'. The Sunday Herald is in 'hot water' over a comment one of its writers made, using in a respected (til now) Sunday newspaper, a comment which is derogatory towards Roman Catholics. That is why Celtic FC issued a statement, that is why the freelancer has been fired. Not over the use of the word 'Huddle', which I believe your headline implies. Had your headline been 'Sunday Herald in hot water over comment', I could have accepted. 'Over Huddle comment' is simply not true. I apologise if this appears picky, as the real issue is a sectarian term used as common parlance in a Scottish newspaper. I hope Sunday's apology will put an end to the matter."
  Bloke 18/04/2008
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• "Dear Bloke - Sorry, I can't see what is disingenuous about the heading. I genuinely can't. But thanks for updating the story. The reason AMS didn't is that AMS is not a full-time operation, so somebody is not around all of the time. Wish that we were. Tell your friends to buy our services. Webmaster."
  SilverLining 18/04/2008
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• "Huddle comment? My word, AMS, that headline is disingenuous in the extreme, not to say totally inaccurate! Change it to gain yourself some creddibility back, and while you're at it, update the article with the response from the Sunday Herald, outlined on the Celtic FC website: CELTIC Football Club yesterday met with the Sunday Herald newspaper in relation to the recent article containing the line, 'some fans would probably rather have a bead-rattling Hoopy the Huddle Hound in the dug-out.' During a constructive meeting with regard to this issue, the Sunday Herald has informed the club of the following: The individual in question will no longer write a column for the Sunday Herald. The newspaper will be printing a full unreserved apology in this Sunday's edition. The newspaper will be responding directly and individually to all those people who have complained by letter or e-mail to the Sunday Herald on this matter."
  Bloke 17/04/2008
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• "sadly that a comment like this would make it into the paper says more about the appalling production standards on what should be one of scotland's top newspapers than it does about the writer who thought such a remark appropriate. any decent, experienced sub would have immediately questioned it. just as any decent, experienced sub would have done likewise at the record a few weeks back with their “big jock crew" blunder. desperate times on our desperate newspapers"
  henrik7 17/04/2008
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• "The Sunday Herald is not in hot water because of a Huddle comment - it's in hot water because of the use of an derogatory term used to describe Roman Catholics. One Scotland, Many Cultures? This sort of drivel getting into the pages of a so-called quality newspaper just goes to show what sort of country Scotland actually is. A senior production executive must have decided that this phrase was acceptable to let it appear in print. It's not, and the Sunday Herald sports desk are a disgrace if any one of them think it is."
  broken record 17/04/2008
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