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GCSE Citizenship Studies · key term
Giving appropriate weight to relevant viewpoints rather than unfairly favouring one side.
Used by AQA and Edexcel
Paper 2
Revise: Role in Informing and Influencing Public OpinionNewspapers can support parties; UK television and radio broadcasters have requirements for due impartiality. Impartiality does not mean giving every claim identical attention, but giving appropriate weight to relevant views.
Paper 2
Reporting that gives appropriate weight to different viewpoints rather than unfairly favouring one side.
Do not claim that newspapers must be politically impartial. UK broadcasters have impartiality requirements that newspapers do not share.
Do not assume a free press is always accurate or politically neutral. Newspapers can support political parties, while UK broadcasters must follow rules on due impartiality.
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UK television and radio broadcasters must follow rules on due impartiality, which does not mean giving every viewpoint identical airtime in every programme.
