Submitted on Tuesday 31st January 2017
Rejected on Wednesday 1st February 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Demand the BBC apologize to Jeremy Corbyn over 'Shoot to kill' report.
The BBC Trust found Laura Kuennsberg's report on Jeremy Corbyn's attitude to 'shoot to kill' officially breached impartiality rules. It's my view that an apology should be issued immediately by the BBC to Mr Corbyn live on the BBC evening news at the same time of day the original report was shown.
The way this report was originally presented allowed an entirely false and extremely damaging impression of Mr Corbyn to manifest itself in the public consciousness. The matter of homeland security helped shape many people's negative view of Mr Corbyn so for his position on this matter to be so irresponsibly misrepresented is most undemocratic, especially as the BBC profess to be and are seen as many to be impartial politically. An apology is essential if we value our BBC and our democracy.
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