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”
I'm very cross about this.
It’s criminal to attempt to cross a border illegally and no I’m not fair and balanced, I love my country and don’t like the way it’s changing.
Zetsumei Ikari
I wonder what the men and woman of the 1940s britan would think of that xenophobic attitude
JoeDM
Why give an illegal immigrant and criminal the oxygen of publicity?
I'm very cross about this.
It’s not xenophobic and the comparison to the 1940’s is actually quite apt, that was an attempted invasion too. And it’s Britain.
EndAusterityNow
The right wing rag would never do it! their typical tory reader would have a heart attack!