Let's make the Mail tell the other side for once!
We’ve read the Daily Mail’s coverage of migration every day, we’re pretty disgusted.
Today MediaWatch is launching a petition to do something about it.
Click here to tell the Daily Mail to give migrants a voice!
We call on the Daily Mail newspaper to publish a comment piece by a migrant living in Calais, France.
Its readers should hear the migrants’ side for a change.
Why is this important?
The Daily Mail’s coverage of the migrants in Calais has been a national disgrace, referring to them as a ‘swarm’ looking to mooch off the UK.
The Mail, as the second most-read paper in the country and most-read English news site in the world, should give an accurate picture to its readers.
Sign the petition and tell all your friends to do the same.
Once we have 1,000 signatures we will publicly deliver this to the Daily Mail.
These migrants have been demonized. They deserve the right to speak in their own voice – and the British public should be allowed to hear them.
Adam Barnett is a staff writer at Left Foot Forward. Follow MediaWatch on Twitter
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53 Responses to “Petition: Tell the Daily Mail to publish a comment piece by a Calais migrant”
john ingamells
Despite your obvious bias, even you know that no interviewer has questioned people in Calais and received the replies you gave! You know why? Because illegal immigrants or refugees as they used to be referre,d to in the days when this country fought Nazis to halt fascism and intolerance of persecuted groups, by the very nature of being illegal means they do not get free this or that ! You have overlooked the fact that people who are illegal are by their desire invisible to the authorities. Unless they are taken in by our government which, compared to every other EU country in this current murdeous situation we have helped create in the Middle East – Iraq, Syria , Afghanistan, Libya etc, our lack of compassion in taking in refugees as been lamentable! No one gets free housing, healthcare nor schooling if they are classed as refugees who have entered illegally. As you will also know, those moving freely around Europe, as we do as part of our membership, doesn’t afford them the free list of privileges you refer to! If you read and ingest the garbage of the Daily Mail and Daily Express I suppose it’s inevitable you are not going to be fully informed, inconsistent with your ‘facts’, largely because they are based on xenophobia and lies! If you have no capacity to consider the plight and reality for men women and children living in the conditions of these countries and simply dismiss as ‘criminals’ I doubt you can bring yourself to give a damn about anyone other than within the land mass called the UK, even then I guess it’s a case of a chosen few of the people here! I’m only grateful we had people like Sir Nicholas Winton and others during the times of rising fascism and intolerance spreading across the continent, when our fathers and grandfathers fought to stop this creeping hatred and lack of care for others because they were somehow ‘different’! I suppose you will have been one of the types of viewers appalled at Songs of Praise showing life in the Calais tents for Christians, Muslims or any or non religious beliefs? How they had a church and retained some sort of faith in God, something I do not share. I suppose life can be a simple thing if you adopt a ‘ lack of compassion for any others, whoever they may be!
Kelvin Thomas
Just like we did in every country in the Commonwealth.
Dark_Heart_of_Toryland
‘the free press exists in a free market’.
That’s the funniest thing I’ve read all week. You don’t honestly believe that, do you?
gretakhan
Here’s wishing for a harsh winter
Geo
No. I don’t wish unnecessary suffering on anyone. But that does not excuse crime.