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”
jed shed
I’m sure Mike Godwin didn’t intend right wing smart-arses to misuse his law when he wanted people to think about the Holocaust more.
Geo
He wanted people to put things into context. The whole point was to get people to think whether or not their case merits cries of “Nazi”. And in this case, it is pure hyperbole.
jed shed
But Keith was asserting we should remember the Mail’s overt backing for Mosley and the BUF in the 30’s. “Hurrah for the Blackshirts!”. Rothermere was a close friend of Adolf Hitler. That’s not hyperbole. That is fact.
Geo
True, but it isn’t relevant here. The Daily Mail is owned by a different person, and this is a totally different topic.
Zetsumei Ikari
yeah