The left may think of themselves in a positive light as defenders of the faith or something, but their disgusting behaviour over Alan Jones is beyond contempt and genuinely a matter for serious concern. This is from The Age.
Macquarie Radio Network executive chairman Russell Tate said ‘the nature, tone and volume of the reaction to Jones’ remarks, and in particular the threats being made through social media to companies advertising in Jones’ program and the disruption being caused to their businesses, have made it necessary for MRN to call some “time out”.’
‘Some simple facts need to be acknowledged.
‘There is almost universal agreement that Jones’ remarks were unacceptable, wrong and inexcusable. Alan himself acknowledged that from the moment he first advised me of them. He immediately arranged a media conference to state that publicly and apologise to the Prime Minister,’ he said.
‘Although the remarks were not made on 2GB, our position from the outset has been that a personal, unconditional apology was a necessary and appropriate response. I encouraged Alan to repeat the apology on 2GB when he first returned to air last Tuesday morning following his media conference. His apology was unambiguous and unconditional.’
Mr Tate said the threats to boycott Jones show were coming ‘almost entirely from people who do not listen to Alan Jones or 2GB at all – probably never have done and never will.’
What 2GB will now do is run Alan Jones without ads until further notice. Jones did still have advertisers but Macquarie is going to shield them from the derangement that is the specific province of the left. The leaders of the Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics and the members of the National SOCIALIST German Workers’ Party were all made up of these very types.
Quite so!
shock jocks like Jones make their money by pushing at boundaries. this time it was a bridge too far
Of course they were wrong. ALP collectively doesn’t have enough shame to power a fart, let alone kill a man.
G’day,
Right.. so the once great Alan Jones is now a financial liability to the station. What he should do is resign and set himself up as an internet radio personality with audience sponsorship as some US talk hosts have done. I suppose the trouble with that would be the oldies who listen to his show don’t know how to use the internet.
ta
Ralph
The Left are oblivious until the evidence becomes overwhelming.
And even then……despite Sen. Brown, their ilk they still occasionally demonstrate outside of Max Brenner stores.
I loathe Kevin Rudd’s attitude as PM and his policies but his pointed insistence of being seen to have coffee at Max Brenner during the height of the Greenslimes poisonous bds campaign considerably balanced my critique of the man.
Of course in this instance, he’s decided to resort to hypocrisy.
A two-week wonder. 2GB Management know this, and are levelling the field to start again. Advertisers will want their demographic back soon enough.
I’ve never understood how people manage to listen to Alan Jones though. Or John Laws when he was on air. I can listen (say if I’m in a pre-turned hire car) to other so-called ‘shock jocks’ and not reach for the off switch, in fact I can nod in agreement quite a bit, but the condescending tone of Alan Jones is traffic-accident inducing as I scramble to find something else or curtail sound altogether. He is inadvertently giving trophy blonde drivers a bad name.
Eh? Free speech once given up is easy to give up isn’t it!
So do you have the same standards about the ministers who exploited the situation for political advantage?
I’m stuffed if I know why Jones apologised. It’s nowhere near the most offensive thing ever said about Juliar and was clearly meant to be rhetorical.
He could have easily ignored any noise about it or told them all to jam it. The advertisers would have stuck with him to avoid appearing piss weak.
Damn socialist corporations pulling their ads.
You’re an idiot by the way.
Wow I am completely convinced by your words and offer up a donation to all the capitalists who were hurt by consumers exercising their terrible freedom.
Yeah I can never stomach listening to that agrarian socialist, but I noted which are the weak kneed corporations who have withdrawn their ads and rest assured they will do without my business.
Call me crazy, but to me this is the type of statement that crossed some important boundaries which I would think that Lefties are really serious:
Strangely, lefties ignore a statement about the absolute and “unfettered legal power” by a minister and focus on boorish comments.
Fun quiz, was it the budding autocrat or radio host who apologised?
Answer: Lefties don’t care as winning one more election is more important than the freedoms earned through great cost over many centuries. Labor never apologises. Ever.
You are being ironic right? This is a parody site right? Hilarious stuff, well done!
so be it.
the market has spoken.
ABC is funded by whom? Why not make them subscription only? At least The Age has to sell papers.
I’m sure a hefty proportion of irreverent Aussies thought much the same thing on first hearing of Mr Gillard’s death. I know I did.
I think Jones’s apology was meant to be an act of grace. It’s more telling that Gillard and the Left in general lack sufficient grace to accept it and move on. Their actions in this matter fit the mould they’ve cast for themselves. They are irredeemable.
I’ve put a couple of posts on the Open Thread (at 4.31pm and 5.27pm) that explain why this is nonsense, in my opinion.
Leftists ferals think they’ve “got” Jones. As usual, their anti-business economic illiteracy shines through. In particular they have no comprehension of the dynamics of the commercial radio industry. They’ve disgraced themselves again and the public are seeing it.
Those carbon offsets on airlines have proven to everyone the ABC would run out of money by 15th Jan each year if it relied on the voluntary contributions of lefties.
Consumers, aren’t, producers are being sucked in by bullshit of the likes of you who never grow up and went to political rallies instead of actually learning anything useful at university.
The boycotters have become the boycotted.
Terrible, terrible freedom.
Suck it up, Princess.
This is the difference between the left and the right – the left group together and are relentless.
The right, as this post shows, grumble on a website and get on with things.
Its time the right used social media to protest against comments like Deveny’s wish that her boss would get arse cancer – which is much worse than what Jones said.
A compilation of offensive comments from the left would be useful too.. if only to repeatedly paste it whenever a leftie shows confected outrage online.
Anna……trolling?
I sent this e mail to 2GB today:
Don’t worry about the huge numbers in the online destroy Alan Jones petition. This petition is a joke, you can vote multiple times, just choose a name, any name even using the same e mail address. Jesus Christ has voted. I made this comment on Michael Smith’s blog today:
If anyone wants a laugh check out Signing off on Alan Jones http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/qed/2012/10/signing-off-on-alan-jones
Yes, Skippy Kangaroo signed!
“OF ALL Australia’s many shames, few can rival the disgrace of being forced to share the continent with the likes of Alan Jones, who quite clearly needs to be silenced, ruined financially and shunned by all decent people and former advertisers. Oh, and by at least one telegenic marsupial as well, which is evident from the ever-growing list of those who have signed a much-touted online petition calling for the radio host to be gagged once and for all.”
I checked the petition out last night
and for updates you can check out Catallaxy http://catallaxyfiles.com/2012/10/06/the-media-and-mr-jones/comment-page-2/#comment-597680
At 6.57 pm I made this comment about the petition:
Kevin Rudd 1 minute ago
I just log out then use another email address. I’m Kevin and I’m here to help.
Alan Jones less than a minute ago “Let’s face it, I probably should be sacked”‘
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Everyone keep bombarding this stupid petition with troll votes to demonstrate how ridiculous and irrelevant it is.
Rudd again Actually, I’m the real Kevin Rudd
another Rudd but from China this time ”
Is there a system in place to stop people pretending to be me on this petition?
Kevin Rudd’s taken over ” this is surreal!
and at 7.36 pm this comment:
Julia Gillard 1 min ago
Hi, hai, Kevin. Kevins. How’s the back? And great to see you getting the signatures up so we can get Jones out of there. He won’t suck up, so he’s gotta go.
He is guilty of the most heinous crime ever. He’s not nice to me ” he’s a bloody misygonist.
Kevin Rudd from China 8 mins ago
Why are there still people trying to post serious comments on a joke of a site like this. Wake up Australia this site is a practical joke. Get it a joke, a joke, a joke. My name is Kevin ” trust me.
Julia Gillard & Rudd signed a few more times but I haven’t kept up with it since. By 1.18 am I understand Hugh Jarse, Mister Ed, Jesus Christ, Craig Thomson, Barack Obama had all signed.
Check it out it’s a real laugh, one thing’s for sure, those on line petitions are a joke, my name’s not Kevin but – trust me.
I sent this e mail to 2GB today
Don’t worry about the huge numbers in the online destroy Alan Jones petition. This petition is a joke, you can vote multiple times, just choose a name, any name even using the same e mail address. Jesus Christ has voted. I made this comment on Michael Smith’s blog today:
If anyone wants a laugh check out Signing off on Alan Jones http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/qed/2012/10/signing-off-on-alan-jones
Yes, Skippy Kangaroo signed!
“OF ALL Australia’s many shames, few can rival the disgrace of being forced to share the continent with the likes of Alan Jones, who quite clearly needs to be silenced, ruined financially and shunned by all decent people and former advertisers. Oh, and by at least one telegenic marsupial as well, which is evident from the ever-growing list of those who have signed a much-touted online petition calling for the radio host to be gagged once and for all.”
I checked the petition out last night
and for updates you can check out Catallaxy (The Media and Mr Jones post) where at 6.57 pm last night I made this comment:
Latest signatories
Kevin Rudd 1 minute ago
I just log out then use another email address. I’m Kevin and I’m here to help.
Alan Jones less than a minute ago “Let’s face it, I probably should be sacked”‘
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Info for troll voters:
If you are having trouble making multiple votes, just go to Cookies and delete change.org cookie and you’ll be able to repost.
Everyone keep bombarding this stupid petition with troll votes to demonstrate how ridiculous and irrelevant it is.
Rudd again Actually, I’m the real Kevin Rudd
another Rudd but from China this time ”
Is there a system in place to stop people pretending to be me on this petition?
Kevin Rudd’s taken over ” this is surreal!
and at 7.36 pm this comment:
Julia Gillard 1 min ago
Hi, hai, Kevin. Kevins. How’s the back? And great to see you getting the signatures up so we can get Jones out of there. He won’t suck up, so he’s gotta go.
He is guilty of the most heinous crime ever. He’s not nice to me ” he’s a bloody misygonist.
Kevin Rudd from China 8 mins ago
Why are there still people trying to post serious comments on a joke of a site like this. Wake up Australia this site is a practical joke. Get it a joke, a joke, a joke. My name is Kevin ” trust me.
Julia Gillard & Rudd signed a few more times but I haven’t kept up with it since. By 1.18 am I understand Hugh Jarse, Mister Ed, Jesus Christ, Craig Thomson, Barack Obama had all signed.
Check it out it’s a real laugh, one thing’s for sure, those on line petitions are a joke, my name’s not Kevin but – trust me. (Oh, I did notice this afternoon that Peter Slipper had joined in the fray)
I thought you people were libertarians.
Jones hasn’t been locked in a prison and his words expunged from the public record. Within the limits of defamation law he is free to say what he wants to whomever will listen.
All that has happened is that lots of people have exercised their freedom to not buy from jones’ advertisers and have exercised their freedom to tell the advertisers. The advertisers have exercised their freedom to withdraw their advertising from his show.
All of us free to do and say what we want. The essence of libertarianism, I would have thought (and I’m not taking the piss).
Are you really libertarians or just right wing authoritarians who want some intellectual clothing for poorly examined political bigotry? Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences. You betray your shallow understanding of libertarian philosophy if you think otherwise.
Actually upon retreading this I think Steve is taking the piss. He’s got a spectacular Godwin at the end which isn’t that far from Basil Fawlty “this is exactly how nazi Germany started” (see the Waldorf salad episode.)
Nice one Steve. I feel a bit of a Charlie for being taken in. Keep up the good work of making the right wing authoritarians look like the idiots they are.
Jenna Price is ‘thrilled’ at Jones news.
A Jenna Price joined UTS Journalism in 2008 and is the undergraduate coordinator of the journalism major and is also the internship coordinator. A Jenna Price writes for the ABC. A Jenna Price once worked for Fairfax. Jenna ticks all the boxes it seems.
Jenna Price is a political activist who deserves no place in in journalism, especially not journalism financed by the public, which is meant to be impartial and to reflect the public interest. That a staff member in the taxpayer-funded UTS journalism faculty is campaigning to bring down a government critic on behalf of the ruling political party is outrageous and corrupt.
I see your enthusiasm for freedom of speech does not extend to people whose views differ from yours. Stackja gets a snippy little piece posted that conforms to the dominant groupthink whereas mine languishes (I suspect forever) in moderation.
Ok. It’s your website. Unlike you I understand and respect property rights. You are free to do with your blog whatever you like. And I’m free to think it’s become a caricature of its former self where libertarian ideals are espoused but authoritarianism rules.
I’ll leave you to it.
Me neither. He does tend to gabble.
Twitter is well named – it is beginning to remind me of Hitchcock’s “The Birds” with hoards of commenters pecking the chosen victim to death.
I thought they were funny. Tasteless perhaps, but funny.
They would be even funnier if John Gillard was a member of the AWU or HSU, but he was probably in the Federation.
val – perhaps your time would be better spent inflating the number of signatures on the pro Alan Jones change.org petition
http://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/2gb-do-not-sack-alan-jones
It has a whole 48 signatures so far!
A lot is made of Jones’ 1-200,000 audience. But compared to other media thats not really that significant. The 7:30 report for example averages around 700,000 viewers each night. So its not surprising that even though the listeners to the Alan Jones show may be very supportive of his views, advertisers are more concerned about the response of the 20 odd million other people in the country.
I think it will all blow over eventually. In a few months time many sponsors will back (though some like Mercedes Benz have said they will never return). Essentially it ends up being a large public driven fine from reduced revenue for the broadcaster and Jones who owns a significant shareholding in 2GB.
Does anyone need any more explanation why we should de-fund the ABC?
Jones is a bully and is finally getting some of his own back. As someone else said on this forum, “suck it up, princess”. Sponsors will go where the money is and will make their own decisions, lefies and righties will exercise their right to free speech and see how far it gets them. This time around, the lefties have had a win and the bully has been taken down a peg. I imagine he’ll be back, but hopefully he’ll remember his manners next time.
Chris the ‘pro Alan Jones change.org petition’ is off and message is:
ALP strikes again?
change.org is back. It would be good if the original poster could actually spell Labor Party correctly
by poster i mean petitioner
Too right, Steve C.
There is no you in LaboUr.
truthtold, DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE CAPS LOCK KEY IS?
So Jones will now be ad free….. So the result of all this handwringing to get less Jones on the radio is more Jones on the radio.
Wouldn’t it be interesting if as a result of going ad free Jones increases his audience and the ads immediately following Jones slot go up in price.
Alan Jones just said that Mercedes-Benz had cancelled its contract with 2GB two weeks before the ‘shame’ comments were made, and has totally misrepresented the issue.
Should it be against the law to apply market pressure to a political opponent with a bald-faced lie?
Alsn Jone has also stated that Mercedes-Benz has publicly misrepresented the nature of the contract for the vehicle that Alan Jones drives. The vehicle is simply a company vehicle provided by his employer.
This is a disgrace.
I call it The Political Persecution of Alan Jones.
The geriatric loudmouth is brought down by a bunch of nerds – the mice roar! Priceless and poetic…..
Hey numbers, when are you going to apologise for the homophobic statements you made about Alan Jones?
The geriatric loudmouth is brought down by a
bunchfewofnerds posting to a petition site 10,000 times.ftfy
What market, dope ? Posting threatening messages on a petition site is not a market. Neither is sending threatening emails to companies that advertise on 2GB. Costs nothing, hence its appeal to online vigilantes who can no longer bestir themselves to even become part of a rentacrowd.
My entry in the petition:
I am Syrian dictator for many decades and have also being the subject of distasteful criticism from media people. This is disgrace and all free media must be stopped. Governments like mine must be protected from all criticism because we are infallible!!!
Signed
Bashar al-Assad
That petition is going gangbusters. I managed another entry:
I am friendly dictator of North Korea worker’s paradise, Kim Jong-Un. I think Alan Jones is a disgrace because he dares to criticise good government of Gillard Ju-Lia. He must be stopped at any cost. And all other criticism of Gillard government must also be stopped!
Sincerely
Kim Jong-Un
Supreme Leader
Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (North Korea paradise)
Yes it is quite likely all due to a very small bunch of leftard nerds who know how to automate submissions to on-line petitons that have no scamming controls (eg duplicate IP detection) switched on. They are also using (illegal) spamming tools to deluge the mail boxes of individuals.
Think the cyber equivalent of forcefully breaking up meetings of people you don’t like – the fascist left at work as always.
Quite so.
Mercedes provided vehicles for senior Third Reich officers, including Hitler, but draw the line at Alan Jones
Here’s an alternative view – the whole thing is being spun out by 2GB itself as a PR masterstroke
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Isn’t the right to choose products and services one of the fundamental tenets of our free market?
Consumers have every right to reject products endorsed by bigots.
If these same consumers want to get organised, and place a facility on-line to make this rejection easier, and make it public, what’s the problem? Isn’t that called free speech?
Of course, this issue is fundamentally about power, not free speech.
The tables have been turned by social media. The same harnessing of the new media has brought down totalitarian governments in the Middle East. It’s a healthy phenomenon. It empowers people who previously had no voice.
It’s only when the hip pocket starts to be assaulted that indignation reigns. Listen carefully, and you will hear the clucking of chickens coming home to roost – the bully is “victimised” – Priceless!
No that’s not a free market you disgusting piece if leftist totalitarian leftist vermin numbers.
A freemarket is one where the product and service is are free unencumbered competition for other goods and services.
The Greenslimes BDS and intimidation of 2GB advertisers is the antithesis of a freemarket and freedom itself
Leftist fucktards- just like you numbers, you piece of filth – are thug illiberal totalitarians.
The homophobe is back. Numbers, when are you going to apologise for your bigoted remark?
Numbers 15 Sep 12 at 4:38 pm :
@ James K
Sit down, you’re becoming incoherent, and the dog is pissing on your swag.
@ Token
Don’t shout – it just makes you look stupid.
Apologise for calling him a shrill old queen – happy to oblige – I shouldn’t have used the ageist term “old”.
@ Keith.
I’m surprised you can’t tell the difference between direct endorsement and association. There’s a serious gap in your basic literacy. I can recommend a good tutor.
Interesting turnback. You just parodied yourself.
Have another read of what you just wrote. Quite funny.
Lol in fact.
Try these people….
Not just incoherent but no rebuttal.
You fucktard evil totalitarian leftist git.