mon 21 feb 2015, 17:48

British newspaper Telegraph, fined for voting advice

LONDON –

Although the British media normal is to their readers advice on how to vote, The Daily Telegraph, there is now punishment for it. Privacy watch dog ICO has the newspaper to a fine of £ 30,000 (over 40,000 euro) is imposed, because editor-in-chief Chris Evans on 7 may, the day of the elections, hundreds of thousands of readers sent an email in which he called on the Conservative Party of prime minister David Cameron to vote.

Ed Miliband (Labour) …ideological direction…

Evans called the election in writing “the most important since 1979,” and agitated against “the most left-wing Labour leader of this generation”, referring to the then party leader Ed Miliband. That has since been replaced by Jeremy Corbyn, a considerably more left-wing image.

Although a newspaper best a opinion it may have, The Daily Telegraph, with the e-mail “a frontier”. On the e-mail came the day itself, all the necessary criticism from readers who claimed that they had given up for a newsletter, and not for political propaganda.

The elections turned incidentally on a victory for the conservatives.