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August 5, 2019updated 30 Sep 2022 8:10am

Ofcom clears Channel 4 News over Jon Snow’s ‘never seen so many white people’ comment

By Charlotte Tobitt

Broadcast regulator Ofcom has cleared Channel 4 News of any wrongdoing after presenter Jon Snow said he had “never seen so many white people in one place” while reporting on a pro-Brexit rally.

Snow’s comment was “sufficiently contextualised” despite having the potential to cause offence, Ofcom said in a ruling published today.

Snow was reporting live from College Green in Westminster, near where a number of Brexit rallies and protests were taking place, on 29 March 2019.

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