Rejected petition Make it illegal for the media to print lies

The media are continuously printing inaccurate and false facts, misleading the general public and making false accusations which in some cases can have a detrimental effect. This is both immoral and wrong and it should be illegal for the media to be allowed to get away with this.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

We're not entirely sure what you're asking the Government to do. What the media can publish is already controlled by a number of industry specific regulators, for example, Ofcom and the Independent Press Standards Organisation. It is these regulators, not the Government or Parliament, which is responsible for maintaining reporting standards in the media. If there's a specific policy you want the Government to introduce, you might be able to start a new petition about that.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 7 August 2016
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