BBC Scotland has been accused of skewing a bar chart charting an increase in alcohol-related deaths to further an “anti-independence” agenda.
, said a graphic shown on Reporting Scotland on Tuesday night during a piece on the latest alcohol-related death statistics was misleading.
During the segment a graph was shown highlighting the increase in alcohol-related deaths in Scotland, which were revealed by official statisticians on Tuesday to have reached their highest levels since 2008.There had been an increase of 31 deaths in 2022 compared with the previous year, with the most recent alcohol-related death toll standing at 1276. This was the highest on record since 2008, when deaths reached 1316.
Speaking to The National, Russell accused the BBC of negating its “legal duty of impartiality” in presenting the figures in this way and said independent experts must be brought in to examine the decision. "The organisation seems determined to abuse its position and its authority to present skewed information for purely political, anti-independence reasons."This now requires urgent external examination."
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