Daily Star reporter quits in protest at tabloid's 'anti-Muslim' coverage

irishconvert

I take my hat off to this journalist. He quit his post at the Daily Star due to it's anti-Muslim coverage.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/04/daily-star-reporter-quits-protest

The reporter was recently involved in stories claiming Rochdale council had spent taxypayers' money on "Muslim-only squat-hole loos". In fact, the toilets were neither paid for by the local authority or "Muslim-only".

"I was tasked with writing a gloating follow-up declaring our post-modern victory in 'blocking' the non-existent Islamic cisterns of evil," Peppiatt wrote. The Press Complaints Commission later ruled the story was inaccurate and misleading.

When I was ordered to wear a burqa in public for the day, I asked: 'Just a head scarf or full veil?' Even after being ambushed by anti-terror cops when panicked Londoners reported 'a bloke pretending to be a Muslim woman', I didn't complain.

"Mercifully, I'd discovered some backbone by the time I was told to find some burqa-clad shoppers (spot the trend?) to pose with for a picture [with me] dressed in just a pair of skin-tight M&S underpants."

yammycat

Fair play to him for following his convictions, I don't think I'd call anyone who worked for the star a journalist though.