Have your say on government e-petitions

Corrections and clarifications in UK media to be as prominent as original story

Submitted by Natasha English on Friday 6th March 2020

Published on Wednesday 11th March 2020

Current status: Closed

Closed: Friday 11th September 2020

Signatures: 1,107

Relevant Departments

Tagged with

Direct ~ Law ~ Media ~ UK

Petition Action

Corrections and clarifications in UK media to be as prominent as original story

Petition Details

The UK media needs to be more transparent when they have decieved the public.
In the current political climate of "Fake news" many news outlets publish corrections and clarifications daily, yet these are deliberately buried within ad pages, or online in a section with no direct link from their

Additional Information

homepage and are often missed by readers.
The UK media needs to be held actually accountable for any deception of the public.
We the public want it to be made into law that the correction and clarification of a false news story must be displayed as prominently as the original story, for example a front page story which is misleading should have a front page correction and clarification.


You can't sign this petition because it is now closed. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!

Have your say on this petition!

comments powered by Disqus

repetition.me is a Good Stuff website

18.117.184.62 Fri, 19 Apr 2024 01:14:23 +0100