Rejected petition Force Newspapers to Print apologies on the same page as any mistake.

Too Often Newspapers have to print apologies for incorrect stories, but they can print the apology wherever they like, often they are printed in a way which makes them difficult to notice, I propose that they should print retractions or apologies on the same page as the original story.

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Using this rule papers will have to print apologies or retractions with the same power as the original story, for example a main front page headline for a story that is proved to be not correct with have to have the retraction on the front page with the same size headline, this will force newspapers to fact check main stories more before publishing them.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/170232

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Date submitted 14 February 2017
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