Submitted on Monday 19th December 2016
Rejected on Wednesday 4th January 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make newspapers print apologies the same size as the original story
After this summers referendum, no matter how you voted, we can all agree there was far too much false information been circulated by the press.
With this change in media regulation, the papers might reconsider publishing an article they are not 100% certain on.
The proposal here is make it law, that when a newspaper has to issue an apology or a retraction, it has to have to same visual impact as the original story.
If they print a front page headline that later appears to be incorrect, the apology MUST be on the front page, taking up the same amount of space and having the same impact.
Likewise with online media. If the article goes online at 2pm, the retraction must be published at the same time and distributed via the same social media outlets.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/170232
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