Rejected petition Ban Newspapers & E-news articles from refering to people by thier race/religion.

For safety we need to stop the spread of hate crime and hate in general towards selected groups. The UK News should be informing all citizens of current news, instead, it's become one of the main causes of separating the British public due to articles always highlighting select races and religions.

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News articles have been pushing the islamophobic narrative by highlighting religion/ethnicity in titles. Other articles have no mention of race or ethnicity when it's not in relation to a muslim/minority race.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/839172/hate-crime-1819-hosb2419.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwis8M_Iz7npAhXXZxUIHebUDGUQFjABegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw3aRJf6vZOq0qehToeRtUcH&cshid=1589674979640

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.

The press, which is self-regulating, is already required to avoid prejudicial or pejorative references to an individual's race or religion according to the Independent Press Standard's Organisation (IPSO) Editor's Code of Practice: https://www.ipso.co.uk/editors-code-of-practice/#Discrimination.

You could sign this petition calling for our current system of self-regulation to be replaced by a statutory regulator, if that's what you want to happen: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300246.

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

Date submitted 17 May 2020
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