Facebook campaign calls on broadcast media to ban Katie Hopkins after Clutha backlash

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By Steven Raeburn, N/A

December 2, 2013 | 3 min read

A Facebook campaign against TV commentator Katie Hopkins has gained almost 7,000 likes within 15 hours of its inception.The page, “Get her banned from the media” has been set up alongside a petition on the Change.Org website calling on broadcast media to “Remove Katie Hopkins from all programmes and interviews”.The petition has reached more than 25,000 signatures in its first day.Both were set up following a Twitter backlash against Hopkins, who tweeted within 24 hours of the Clutha helicopter clash: “Life expectancy in Scotland based 07/08 birth is 59.5. Goodness me. That lot will do anything to avoid working until retirement.”Hopkins entered the media landscape after appearing on BBC TV's ‘The Apprentice’.Hopkins appeared to be unperturbed by the furore, tweeting earlier today: “There appear to be a number of conflicting petitions out thereto have me hung and quartered. Please do feel free to sign them all. PC tastic”.Hopkins, who has over 81,000 Twitter followers, later retweeted many of the critical comments directed at her.The Change.Org petition states: “On the 30th of November 2013, Scotland was still in shock and trying to come to terms with a horrible crash that took the lives of innocent people. Within 24 hours of this happening Katie Hopkins posted vile remarks on Twitter about how long the people of Scotland live for.“This is unacceptable and distressing to those who lost friends and family.“We the undersigned are sick and tired of ITV and Channel 5 giving her airtime and want her banned from all TV shows on your channels such as This Morning and The Wright Stuff.“This woman is nothing more than an attention seeker who does not deserve to be a celebrity.”Elsewhere, a petition asking the Scottish Government to meet the cost of the funerals of the victims of the Clutha incident has reached almost 2600 signatures at the time of publication.

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