Guest guest Posted June 27, 2011 Report Share Posted June 27, 2011 Sara he has a weekly column in the Sun!!! He has done very well out of this story. Vicky Complain about ie Boyle please Let's make sure that ie Boyle's career is finished. Please complain to Channel 4: http://www.channel4.com/4viewers/contact-us and to your MP: http://www.writetothem.com/ Also ask NAS what they are going to do about it: http://www.autism.org.uk/News-and-events/About-the-NAS/Contact-us.aspx and Mencap (include the jokes about people with Downs Syndrome): http://www.mencap.org.uk/contact-us Any other ideas? It has to be nipped in the bud, we can't allow our kids to grow up in a country/ culture where this is ok!! I want ie Boyle to seriously regret these "jokes". Sara x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 27, 2011 Report Share Posted June 27, 2011 Sara he has a weekly column in the Sun!!! He has done very well out of this story. Vicky Complain about ie Boyle please Let's make sure that ie Boyle's career is finished. Please complain to Channel 4: http://www.channel4.com/4viewers/contact-us and to your MP: http://www.writetothem.com/ Also ask NAS what they are going to do about it: http://www.autism.org.uk/News-and-events/About-the-NAS/Contact-us.aspx and Mencap (include the jokes about people with Downs Syndrome): http://www.mencap.org.uk/contact-us Any other ideas? It has to be nipped in the bud, we can't allow our kids to grow up in a country/ culture where this is ok!! I want ie Boyle to seriously regret these "jokes". Sara x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 27, 2011 Report Share Posted June 27, 2011 Have gone onto the sight but dont know what the program was ... can you advise please.Kate Let's make sure that ie Boyle's career is finished. Please complain to Channel 4: http://www.channel4.com/4viewers/contact-us and to your MP: http://www.writetothem.com/ Also ask NAS what they are going to do about it: http://www.autism.org.uk/News-and-events/About-the-NAS/Contact-us.aspx and Mencap (include the jokes about people with Downs Syndrome): http://www.mencap.org.uk/contact-us Any other ideas? It has to be nipped in the bud, we can't allow our kids to grow up in a country/ culture where this is ok!! I want ie Boyle to seriously regret these "jokes". Sara x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 27, 2011 Report Share Posted June 27, 2011 Have gone onto the sight but dont know what the program was ... can you advise please.Kate Let's make sure that ie Boyle's career is finished. Please complain to Channel 4: http://www.channel4.com/4viewers/contact-us and to your MP: http://www.writetothem.com/ Also ask NAS what they are going to do about it: http://www.autism.org.uk/News-and-events/About-the-NAS/Contact-us.aspx and Mencap (include the jokes about people with Downs Syndrome): http://www.mencap.org.uk/contact-us Any other ideas? It has to be nipped in the bud, we can't allow our kids to grow up in a country/ culture where this is ok!! I want ie Boyle to seriously regret these "jokes". Sara x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 28, 2011 Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 I don't think anyone should feel a victim of ie Boyle Sara, the reason I mentioned his column in the Sun is because their readers are his fan base and he knows it. The kind of people he is hoping to amuse are people so dim they don't realise their newspaper of choice actually despises them! These are the people that are responsible for most of the disability hate in the Country, they are not Guardianista's, to them ie Boyle speaks their language, and doesn't he just? The Sun employ him knowing full well his reputation and the furore around this story, will MENCAP back a campaign to boycott the Sun until they get rid of him? Vicky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 28, 2011 Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 A weekly column is the Sun says it all to me. I don't accept that we need to be his victims and just resign ourselves to this abuse. How much power can one man have? There is one of him and loads of us - I'll personally finish him off if I have to. He's a cowardly imbecile. I have written to complain to my MP, my AM, Minister of State for Care Services Burstow, Channel 4, NAS, Mencap and to Price to say I support her. I haven't written to Ofcom yet but I will. I will write to anyone else that people can suggest too. (e.g. is there a society for people with Downs Syndrome that I could contact?) So far I have received the most pathetic reply from NAS (even compared to what I have come to expect) and a great reply from Mencap - I'll cut and paste both below. NAS then Mencap. (Let's all friend Mencap on FB to show our support btw) Sara x Dear Sara, Thank you for your email. The PR and Media team at the National Autistic Society are aware of this story. When this was first publicised we contacted ie Boyle's agent to offer information about autism and raise awareness of the seriousness of the condition. Part of our remit in the PR and Media team is to monitor and respond to relevant cases in the media where appropriate and we will continue to do this on an ongoing basis. Thank you for your enquiry. Many thanks, Suzi Culshaw Senior PR and Media Officer Dear Sara, Mencap has been heavily involved in challenging channel 4 over its airing of ie Boyle's so called humour and has been working with Price after his cruel jibes about her son. The work has been led by our media and campaigns team in london. I have forwarded your email to them who I hope will be able to give you a fuller update on their work. Alternatively you could befriend mencap on facebook and get updates of our work in challenging offensive language and attitudes to people with a learning disability. Thanks for your email and do let us know if there is anything else you need. Wayne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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