UK regulator: Russian broadcaster broke its rules
|London (CNN Business)RT faces potential penalties after Britain’s media regulator ruled that its coverage of the Skripal poisonings breached impartiality rules.
Ofcom said in a statement Thursday that the Russian broadcaster failed to preserve “due impartiality” in seven programs that aired after the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal.
“The seven breaches represent a serious failure of compliance with our broadcasting rules,” the regulator said.