Petition: Tell the Daily Mail to publish a comment piece by a Calais migrant

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”

  1. madasafish

    So LeftFootForward think tax payers should be lectured to by foreigners who want us to pay for them.

    No wonder Labour are losing.

  2. Nigel Woodcock

    Yeah, current owner is a billionaire who lives in France so he doesn’t pay tax, and he wants YOU to be patriotic. You gotta be a sad fuck to fall for that.

  3. Nigel Woodcock

    Oh dear, this is what happens when the gullible only read rightwing media owned by a tax dodging billionaire: exceptional ignorance and stupidity.

  4. Geo

    I have never bought a copy of the Daily Mail in my life, and I’m not about to. I am just sick of the left’s attitude towards a private business – namely that they have a right to control its editorial policy even if they don’t buy the paper. It’s pathetic. If you don’t like the Mail, don’t buy it. It works for me.

  5. Geo

    Well after that deeply thought-out, well-constructed response, you’ve convinced me.

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