Editing Daily Mail (section)

===Anti-refugee cartoon===
Following the [[November 2015 Paris attacks]],<ref name="Buchanan-2015">{{cite news|last1=Buchanan|first1=Rose Troup|title=Daily Mail criticised by social media users for cartoon on refugees|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/daily-mail-criticised-by-social-media-users-for-cartoon-on-refugees-a6737976.html|access-date=18 November 2015|work=The Independent|date=18 November 2015|archive-date=18 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118095922/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/daily-mail-criticised-by-social-media-users-for-cartoon-on-refugees-a6737976.html|url-status=live}}</ref> a cartoon in the ''Daily Mail'' by [[Stanley McMurtry]] ("Mac") linked the [[European migrant crisis]] (with a focus on [[Syria]] in particular<ref>{{cite news|last1=Mark|first1=Michelle|title=Amid Syrian Refugee Crisis, 'Racist' Daily Mail Cartoon Prompts Anger on Social Media|url=http://www.ibtimes.com/amid-syrian-refugee-crisis-racist-daily-mail-cartoon-prompts-anger-social-media-2188732|access-date=18 November 2015|work=International Business Times|date=17 November 2015|archive-date=18 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118153923/http://www.ibtimes.com/amid-syrian-refugee-crisis-racist-daily-mail-cartoon-prompts-anger-social-media-2188732|url-status=live}}</ref>) to the terrorist attacks, and criticised the [[European Union]] [[immigration laws]] for allowing [[Islamist]] radicals to gain easy access into the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite news|author1=Mac for the Daily Mail|author-link1=Stanley McMurtry|title=MAC ON... Europe's open borders|url=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3321431/MAC-Europe-s-open-borders.html|access-date=18 November 2015|work=Daily Mail|date=17 November 2015|archive-date=18 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151118005259/http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3321431/MAC-Europe-s-open-borders.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Despite being compared to [[Nazi propaganda]],<ref>{{cite news|last1=Mackey|first1=Robert|title=Anger Over Daily Mail Cartoon Equating Refugees to Rats|url=https://www.nytimes.com/live/paris-attacks-live-updates/anger-over-daily-mail-cartoon-equating-refugees-to-rats/|access-date=4 April 2016|work=The New York Times|date=17 November 2015|url-access=limited|archive-date=12 May 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170512085129/https://www.nytimes.com/live/paris-attacks-live-updates/anger-over-daily-mail-cartoon-equating-refugees-to-rats/|url-status=live}}</ref> and criticised as racist, the cartoon received praise on the [[Mail Online]] website.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Panton|first1=Callum|title=UK public support for Syrian refugees collapses in wake of deadly Paris attacks|url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/uk-public-support-syrian-refugees-124136735.html|access-date=18 November 2015|work=[[International Business Times]]|date=18 November 2015|archive-date=12 May 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170512085217/https://uk.news.yahoo.com/uk-public-support-syrian-refugees-124136735.html|url-status=live}}</ref> A ''Daily Mail'' spokesperson told ''[[The Independent]]'': "We are not going to dignify these absurd comments which wilfully misrepresent this cartoon apart from to say that we have not received a single complaint from any reader".<ref name="Buchanan-2015" /> [[Kate Allen (Amnesty International)|Kate Allen]], director of [[Amnesty International UK]], criticised the ''Daily Mail''{{'}}s cartoon for being "reckless xenophobia".<ref>{{cite news|last1=McKernan|first1=Bathan|title=The Daily Mail has been accused of xenophobia after publishing a cartoon that depicts refugees as rats|url=http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/the-daily-mail-has-been-accused-of-xenophobia-after-publishing-a-cartoon-that-depicts-refugees-as-rats--bkJRYorPYe|access-date=18 November 2015|work=i100.co.uk ([[The Independent]])|date=17 November 2015|archive-date=19 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119035121/http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/the-daily-mail-has-been-accused-of-xenophobia-after-publishing-a-cartoon-that-depicts-refugees-as-rats--bkJRYorPYe|url-status=dead}}</ref>