BBC executives have upheld complaints against reports on Scottish votes at UK General Elections – despite a spokesperson for the broadcaster…
BBC Scotland stood by a report on Scottish votes at General Elections, but has now been overruled by the executive complaints unitexecutives have upheld complaints against a Reporting Scotland broadcast on Scottish votes at UK General Elections – despite a spokesperson for the corporation previously standing by it.
But now, six months on, the BBC’s executive complaints unit has ruled that the BBC Scotland report “went beyond what the evidence could sustain and fell short of the BBC’s standards of accuracy”.In conclusions published on the day of the General Election , the executive complaints unit said it had considered two reports from viewers that, in most General Elections since 1945, Scottish votes had not “been crucial to deciding who takes power”.
“It considered that, while a case could be made in support of the correspondent’s claim, it necessarily fell short of certainty because it rested on hypotheticals, and concluded that, because it was phrased as a statement of fact rather than an arguable proposition, it went beyond what the evidence could sustain and fell short of the BBC’s standards of accuracy in this context.”
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