Television Week

EDM number 379 in 1992-93, proposed by Alan Meale on 30/06/1992.

That this House expresses its deep concern at the comments of Mr Paul Jackson, Director of Programmes at Carlton TV, who, in a recent interview for the magazine Television Week, stated that `if World in Action in 1994 were to uncover three more serious miscarriages of justice, while delivering an audience of three, four or five million, I would cut it. It isn't part of the function of the ITV system to get people out of prison'; questions whether such views are in the best interests of the public and television's duty to inform it; and wonders if this opinion was expressed openly before and during the recently held television franchise allocations.

This motion has been signed by a total of 25 MPs.