Petition about the Daily Mail

[Roisin]

Please read and sign if you feel able:

do we know for certain this is why she committed suicide

he seems horrible!

The media here is just one man.... Ok he sounds awful.... But petitions against him etc, isn't that just doing the same thing all over again?

Hounding him. Does he have a wife? Kids?

Signed and linked to FB. It's about time that scumbag was sacked.

And how will you all feel if Littlejohn tops himself?

It would be a loss to his wife, children and family.

The DM has always employed columnists like him. he's just a paid mouthpiece (and not very original at that). The petition should be against the editor and managers who sanction his diatribes rather than just him. As for his wife and kids - feel sorry for them.

I agree with other posters who feel this type of witch hunt makes us as bad as the perpatrator - I have highlighted Lucy's death in my own life both on facebook and in person but I have stopped short of mentioning RLJ or the daily mail specifically and have asked people to make their own minds up.

This what I wrote on my facebook page

^For anyone remotely interested in the whole newspaper free speech etc etc debate, please remember/ think for a moment about Lucy Meadows who died this week.

Most of you won't of heard of her... and those of you that have probably never would have if it hadn't been for sensationalist reporting. Because, Lucy didn't set out to ever feature in the media, it was forced upon her by people wanting to sell papers or make money out of selling 'someone elses' private story to the papers^

^www.newstatesman.com/media/2013/03/press-regulation-freedom-speech-and-death-lucy-meadows^

^www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/mar/22/lucy-meadows-press-harassment^

^sexonomics-uk.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/her-name-was-lucy-meadows.html^

personally I hope that this makes RLJ realise the enormity of what he has done, but I doubt it. People like him don't consider that there may be be another view point.

Isn't this almost exactly like what happened to the nurse involved in the Royal family prank?

The DJ's were sacked.

I only saw the national news at the time and not the local news.

one day people such as Lucy will just be able to get on with their lives, it WILL happen.

People just aren't going to get angry enough about transgender issues yet, it is too alien for most people still... gentle awareness and acceptance is the first battle, but there isn't going to be huge public outpouring of grief like the kate middleton nurse for sometime yet.

in my life.. posting inflammatory information on Facebook wasn't going to get me very far. Too many ill-informed people about that sort of thing that are otherwise rational people. Framing it in terms of a press regulation basis rather than a transgender specific issue is the best course of action I can see at the moment.

not really, puds.

& the nurse had previous mental health problems, poor woman.

& the DJs weren't sacked afaik?

The DJs weren't sacked and neither will Littlejohn be.

The wording of the petition is ridiculous

Littlejohn is just one man. There have been many inflammatory articles about trans-women and -men, going back years. Julie Burchill. Suzanne Moore. Sacking Littlejohn would not change our society's general attitude to trans-people.

Fucking signed it.

Stuff Littlejohn, small minded prig.