Submitted on Monday 26th March 2018
Rejected on Wednesday 4th April 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Make it a criminal offence for Newspapers to mislead the public.
There has been so many stories in the press in the last decade that have influenced peoples thinking, yet have been proven to be totally fabricated. Particularly on subjects of race, religion, immigration. As it is now the papers can say what they like without much consequence. Retraction not enough
https://www.opendemocracy.net/shinealight/adam-wagner/too-little-too-late-as-daily-mail-corrects-bogus-human-rights-splash
http://www.mcb.org.uk/media-misreporting/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sun-muslim-problem-investigation-jewish-islamic-ipso-trevor-kavanagh-nazi-propaganda-tabloid-news-uk-a7894231.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/78v3l2/telegraph_admits_in_tiny_retraction_that/
A small retraction printed months later is clearly not enough.
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action. We're not sure what specific action you'd like.
In particular, we're not sure whether you'd like to make all misleading reporting an offence or only deliberate misleading reporting. We're also not sure what you'd like to happen with retractions.
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.
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