Early Day Motion·EDM 2655

ADVERTISING ON BBC NEWS INTERNATIONAL WEBSITE

25 July 200623 Signatures

Primary sponsor

John McDonnell

LabourHayes and Harlington

Motion Text

That this House notes with concern proposals to place advertisements on the BBC News International website; believes that the use of advertisements threatens fundamentally to undermine public service broadcasting by opening the door to commercial influence and that it will damage the BBC's reputation as an impartial news provider; and therefore calls on the BBC's management to abandon plans to place advertisements on the BBC News International website.