8 June 2013 Last updated at 15:10 [h=1]BBC Trust upholds complaint about Rangers Football Club[/h]
Stories about Rangers Football Club on the BBC website were not precise enough, rules the Trust.
A committee partly upheld complaints about how accurately BBC Scotland differentiated between the Glaswegian football club and the company that owned it.
The ruling concluded that the BBC had breached 'due accuracy' guidelines, but had not 'knowingly and materially misled its audience'.
The two complaints, filed separately, alleged 'that a number of reports on the BBC's website were inaccurate in giving the impression that Rangers Football Club, rather than the company which had previously owned the club, had gone into administration/liquidation'.
The Trust agreed that some of the language used in reports was imprecise and would need to be tailored depending on the audience and whether it was a business story or a sports story.
In some output the BBC had referred to 'old' and 'new' Rangers in items about the football club when in fact the club - in existence since 1872 - had not changed just because its administrator had.
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Ally McCoist is the manager of Rangers Football ClubStories about Rangers Football Club on the BBC website were not precise enough, rules the Trust.
A committee partly upheld complaints about how accurately BBC Scotland differentiated between the Glaswegian football club and the company that owned it.
The ruling concluded that the BBC had breached 'due accuracy' guidelines, but had not 'knowingly and materially misled its audience'.
The two complaints, filed separately, alleged 'that a number of reports on the BBC's website were inaccurate in giving the impression that Rangers Football Club, rather than the company which had previously owned the club, had gone into administration/liquidation'.
The Trust agreed that some of the language used in reports was imprecise and would need to be tailored depending on the audience and whether it was a business story or a sports story.
In some output the BBC had referred to 'old' and 'new' Rangers in items about the football club when in fact the club - in existence since 1872 - had not changed just because its administrator had.
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