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Include News broadcasts in watershed rules

Submitted on Saturday 30th July 2016

Rejected on Tuesday 9th August 2016

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)

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Include News broadcasts in watershed rules

Petition Details

These days it appears that the only news on tv is bad news.
I think that children being exposed to the graphic images of war, murder and hate crime that seem to fill news bulletins is as harmful if not more, than films and programs that are forced to air later in the evening.

Additional Information

In one news at six programme we were shown an American policeman shooting someone, some graphic images of the aftermath of a massacre on a German train, some footage of a knife man being tasered in a tube station, a gunman in Munich shooting at people and some buildings being blown up by aircraft.
Added to all this were images of desperate refugees drowning at sea.
The news is the news but newscasters need to think about what they show at what time of day.
This news can be shown at ten o'clock


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

Ofcom is the body responsible for drawing up the broadcasting code and dealing with issues about the watershed. Information about Ofcom and the watershed can be found here: http://ask.ofcom.org.uk/help/television/watershed

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