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December 15, 2010

PCC unlikely to rule against Mail after Littlejohn’s Little Britain parody prompts mini Twitter storm

By Dominic wireposts

Twitter watchers will have noted yesterday the mini storm cooked-up over Daily Mail writer Richard Littlejohn’s Little Britain-inspired parody of the actions of disabled student fees protester Jody McIntyre.

As with the Jan Moir article about Stephen Gately’s death last year, Twitter users have encouraged each other to complain to the PCC – with a few minor celebs chipping in to egg people on.

So far the furore is on a much smaller scale, with 500 complaints to the PCC (as reported by The Guardian) versus 25,000 with the Moir piece.

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