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
“why don’t you get a left-wing rag to carry out such an interview and see for yourself?”
‘cos they already have.
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/08/owen-jones-talks-calais-migrants-they-forget-we-are-human
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2015/jul/27/calais-migrants-jungle-camp-video
and even…
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/what-life-like-calais-migrant-6233953
Geo
No it isn’t. It’s still a massive overreaction though – a use of the word fascism simply to mean something that doesn’t sound very nice. There’s more to fascism than that.
Geo
So why do you need to tell the Mail what to do?
jed shed
Well, in all honesty. I haven’t. Like you, I think Adam Barnett’s petition to “Tell” the Mail what to do is wrong. If it were worded ‘Ask’ the Daily Mail…. perhaps I would be more inclined.
That said, if I did, then it would be for the same reasons that you feel compelled to comment on a left-wing publication’s website. We see stuff we don’t agree with and have the right to engage and tell others where we think they are wrong.
It is important to me that people are aware their opinions are not the only ones. That is why I do pay attention to what the right-wing media has to say. It helps me form my own opinion.
EndAusterityNow
Or their views now on benefits, cuts, free markets neolib crap and, bashing anyone that isn’t thatcherite scum