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To have fair political broadcasting on the BBC and Sky news channels.

Submitted on Saturday 30th July 2016

Rejected on Wednesday 10th August 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)

Petition Action

To have fair political broadcasting on the BBC and Sky news channels.

Petition Details

The news channels BBC and Sky news are clearly bias towards the Labour Party and don't not broadcast fair political news. This gives huge advantage to the conservatives.

Additional Information

To have fair political broadcasting on the the BBC and Sky news channels and for them to stop having bias behaviour and downgrading the Labour Party. This clearly gives the conservatives a huge advantage and this needs to be stopped.

Thank you


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.

Sky News is already required to be impartial by the Ofcom Broadcasting Code. You can read more about the Code here:

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/broadcasting/broadcast-codes/broadcast-code/impartiality/

Ofcom, which is an independent regulator, is responsible for enforcing the Code.

The BBC Trust is responsible for investigating breaches of the BBC Charter, which includes complaints about the impartiality of the BBC.

You can get in touch with the BBC Trust using the following website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/contact_us

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