Sportsound presenter Spence cleared over Rangers row

[ian1964 10,411]

BBC Scotland presenter Jim Spence has been provisionally cleared of breaching accuracy guidelines after being accused of referring to Rangers as "the old club that died".

 

Mr Spence provoked the ire of hundreds of fans after making the "old club" comment while discussing attempts to end a boardroom civil war at Ibrox on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound programme.

 

Rangers fans are to contest the initial ruling by the BBC Editorial Complaints Unit (ECU) which indicated the comments were justified as the Sportsound discussion had centred around the new company which was controlling club affairs after oldco headed for liquidation.

 

Three months ago the BBC Trust's Editorial Standards Committee (ESC) ruled that BBC Scotland breached its guidelines on accuracy in reports about the financial collapse of the company running Rangers saying it was wrong to use the terms "new" and "old" club.

 

The ECU, which launched a standards investigation, said the ESC found that "distinguishing between the 'old' and 'new' company" was appropriate when discussing matters off the field.

 

Complainants now have an opportunity to respond to the ECU decision before it is finalised on October 17, but it is expected the matter will head to the BBC Trust's Editorial Standards Committee which previously ruled on inaccuracy issues regarding reporting of the club's affairs.

 

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/sportsound-presenter-spence-cleared-over-rangers-row.22328592

[andy steel 0]

Oh pfft to Spence.

 

There's more important things going on than that twat atm.

[Anchorman 0]

Oh pfft to Spence.

There's more important things going on than that twat atm.

 

Thanks for the post Ian, but time to ignore the Jum the scrotum (and his organisation for the time being at least). Did we expect anything else?

[der Berliner 3,245]

Ignorance of people like him have brought the club to this state. We are free game for any idiot having an opinion. Sadly though, many of these half-wits are now employed by various mass media outlets and have thus access to vast amounts of readers and listeners. And thus they can weave a web of lies and misinformation (even against their own rules) that will steadily undermine anything that is out there in the official documents and with official sources. And then they go on and start challenging even the rulings of judges, the SFA, UEFA and whatnot. We already see what the Yahoos have achieved when it comes to "sectarian" singing. They and their pawns in the media will not let go. And Rangers-haters like Spence or Scrote will happily join in.

 

Challenging them might not be everyone's cup of tea. But those who want to should not be held back, IMHO.

[calscot 0]

How come the same rules don't apply when we're in the dock for the Billy Boys or Super Rangers. F****n pretty much means a group of violent, Irish republicans who resort to terrorism. How can that be sectarian? Anyway, maybe we should sing, "Some people say they are F****n b*****ds". How can they punish us for that? (I'm totally against this stuff but the hypocrisy and double standards make my blood boil).

 

So for us the ruling is "we know what you mean" (even though they don't) which should for consistancy apply to Spence (even though we do).