Channel 4 is not obliged to carry any European election broadcasts while the BBC has its own impartiality guidelines, transmitting two UKIP broadcasts during the 2009 European campaign.
Deontologists, as we have seen, hold impartiality to be a deep and significant element of morality, but they also tend to allow for a considerable degree of first-order partiality.
In the UK, however, Ofcom has stringent impartiality rules relating to news and current affairs that all TV companies must adhere to as part of their broadcasting licence.
But they appear to have confused impartiality with passivity.
They do not have the impartiality needed by a U.N. organization".
America's Federal Communications Commission, for instance, is quite happy for news to be opinionated.Television executives have debated impartiality for years.
Belfast nationalist politician Alban Maginness said the attempt to justify the "outrageous murder" was totally unacceptable, describing Mr Black as an exemplary officer who had exercised impartiality.
By the same token Paul Greengrass's films have the impartiality of a Bragg documentary, fragments of dialectic and opinion shored with artistry.
Stevens dissented, insisting that the recount procedures were perfectly fair and that the state judges should be trusted to handle the litigation honestly, without having their impartiality questioned by interference from federal courts.
Fellowship evaluation interviews were conducted by fellowship hosts which may have compromised impartiality, however data collection, analysis and interpretation were undertaken in awareness of this.
