Reply from the Daily Mail
Yes, after three emails I have finally received the most pathetic response I have ever seen to the emails that I’ve sent.
(For those who haven’t looked a bit further down my original email can be found here, my first chaser here and my second chaser here.)
To: Ethan Kristopher-Hartley
From: managingeditor@dailymail.co.uk
Date: 22/10/2009 17:23:47
Subject: Jan Moir article
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Follow-up email 2 to Paul Dacre
To: paul.dacre@dailymail.co.uk
CC: alex.bannister@dailymail.co.uk; martin.clarke@dailymail.co.uk; jon.steafel@dailymail.co.uk; martin.morgan@dmgt.co.uk;paul.carter@dailymail.co.uk; jan.moir@dailymail.co.uk
Subject: Still no response to my previous emails
Dear Mr Dacre
It has been nearly a week since Jan Moir published her abhorrent article on the death of Stephen Gately and still we have heard nothing from you. It has been 2 days since I sent my first email to you (copied onto my blog at http://efan78.com/140/JanM2). And you still have not had the decency to even acknowledge receipt!
The PCC has received over 25,000 – yes twenty five thousand! – complaints about the article and the Facebook group has over 33,000 members. Yet it seems that you and your colleagues feel that, by keeping quiet and not responding to the public’s justified ire, this will all just die away.
I’m not sure if I made this clear in the email that I sent to you yesterday but that’s not the case. For too long now LGBT people have been vilified and discriminated against by your publication. And why not? We’re an easy target with our “hedonistic lifestyles” that ensure your columnists and journalists can question the clear rulings of a qualified and respected coroner with such headlines as “Nothing ‘natural’ about Stephen Gately’s death” and “A strange and troubling death…”. Heaven forbid that you could actually mention those of us who are in long term, committed, caring relationships raising well-adjusted and wonderful children. Or maybe even just apologise for the awful comments, misinformation, insinuation and bad-timing which Ms Moir’s article was filled with.
Mr Dacre, Mr Bannister, Mr Clarke, Mr Staefel, Mr Morgan, Mr Carter and – most importantly – Ms Moir, we’re waiting. Waiting for you to issue the apology that is so clearly required here. The very apology that you hounded from Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand.
We’re here and we’re waiting. But time is running out…
Sincerely
Ethan Kristopher-Hartley
