Shut down ‘The Sun’ Newspaper

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Following the despicable article published this morning by ‘The Sun’ regarding England Cricket’s World Cup winner Ben Stokes, ‘The Sun’ newspaper should be shut down for a clear, disgusting violation of the Stokes’ family privacy purely to make headlines and increase their sales.

This is not the first time ‘The Sun’ have published in poor taste in a result to increase readership. One need only to mention the Hillsborough 96. ‘The Sun’ must not be allowed to continue in such a manner is problematic as their titlebait stories are either inaccurate, a violation of privacy, an outright lie, in poor taste or damaging to mental health, in an age where mental health is so important, the collective mental health of the Stokes family needs to be considered as paramount importance

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

We can't accept your petition because it's not the UK Government or Parliament's responsibility to ban a newspaper because of its reporting.

The Independent Press Standards Organisation examines complaints about the press. If you wish to make a complaint about a newspaper's reporting you can do so here:

https://www.ipso.co.uk/

Timeline

17 Sep 2019	Petition opened for signatures
24 Sep 2019	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 24 Sep 2019

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