Daily Star reporter quits in protest at tabloid's 'anti-Muslim' coverage
Richard Peppiatt admits producing fictional stories about celebrities and accuses tabloid of inciting racial tensions

by Paul Lewis
Guardian
March 4, 2011

http://www.islamist-watch.org/6526/daily-star-reporter-quits-in-protest-at-tabloid

Excerpt:

The Daily Star has been accused of printing fictional stories by a disgruntled reporter who has resigned over its "hatemongering" anti-Muslim propaganda.

In a resignation letter, Richard Peppiatt said he was leaving after the Star gave sympathetic coverage to the far-right English Defence League last month.

Peppiatt admits producing a number of fictional stories about celebrities during his two years at the tabloid, a practice he implies was sanctioned by his seniors.

The reporter, who was once made to dress up in a burqa, now accuses the paper of inciting racial tensions and Islamaphobia. "You may have heard the phrase 'the flap of a butterfly's wings in Brazil sets off a tornado in Texas'," Peppiatt wrote to the proprietor, Richard Desmond, in a letter seen by the Guardian.

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