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”
Geo
So you are all for lenient treatment of native criminals too? At least we on the right are consistent.
Geo
And that makes three! I knew that some left-wingers couldn’t help themselves when presented with an article about the Daily Mail, but three allusions to fascism, Nazism or the Holocaust is pushing it a little, don’t you think?
Geo
So what do you expect then?
Interviewer: How are you trying to get into the country?
Migrant: I want to apply properly through the legal channels for a Visa and to gain a work permit as per the rules of the country I want to enter.
I: What do you want to do?
M: I would like to work, and I don’t aim to claim a penny in benefits before I contribute.
I: Why did you choose Britain?
M: I am an economic migrant, and I expect to follow the rules for economic migration. I know that if I were an asylum seeker, I’d have submitted my claim in Italy, the first safe country I entered.
I wouldn’t mind betting that those would not be the responses you’d get. But who knows, rather than trying to bully the Mail into bending to your will, why don’t you get a left-wing rag to carry out such an interview and see for yourself?
Zetsumei Ikari
Well yeah, if you make fascist statements then you’re going to be called out on it.
Sadly these people were born in the wrong country we were probably involved in fucking up their country, not that it has to be the reasons to help some of them.
Geo
Nobody on here has made any fascist statements. Most people don’t seem to understand the meaning of the term. It’s just a vague insult for anything that sounds “nasty”. Perhaps such people should learn that the world isn’t all cute fluffy bunnies.
“Sadly those people were born in the wrong country” – yeah, and other people face things that they don’t want to have to. That doesn’t make it our responsibility to open the borders and welcome with open arms anyone who turns up.
“We were probably involved in fucking up their country” – I wasn’t. Maybe Mr Blair was. Why should we be held responsible for his mistakes?