Submitted on Sunday 10th February 2019
Rejected on Tuesday 19th February 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Newspapers to reserve front pages for factual events and correct misinformation
Newspapers should not be allowed to show political bias on their front pages and should reserve their front page for factual events. Also information that is proved to be false in newspapers should be corrected in the same font and page of the original misinformation. Fair reporting must be secured.
Newspapers like the sun and Daily Mail have been able to spread propaganda against politicians who don’t suit their political agenda and it creates a corrupt voting system in the build up to elections. Also these same newspapers after spreading lies on the front pages currently only have to correct them on the inside of the newspaper often tucked away in a small sentence on page 31.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We understand that you're concerned about bias in newspapers, but we're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do.
It is already possible to complain about the accuracy of a story to the Independent Press Standards Organisation. You can find out more about their work here:
www.ipso.co.uk/
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do. For example, you could start a new petition asking the UK Government and Parliament to require newspapers to be impartial in their reporting, if that's what you'd like to happen.
You might also like to sign this petition on corrections:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/233151
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