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And more on Alan Jones, because I have more to say.
Further to this, from here we find:
Jones demonstrates his hypocrisy, once again. For those who can't immediately see it:
The problem is, Mr Jones, that while you may indeed have said "But please don't actually hurt people that would be wrong", the 26 seconds you used to say that may be considered to have been drowned out by the other 2 hours of hatred, vitriol and frenzy.
And his bleating whinge that the complaints were taken out of context, somehow I doubt that the context was missing from the 835 pages of transcripts used to actually determine whether there was a case to answer. As far as it went, all that was needed was one complaint. The rest was more in the line of an affirmation that Jones does not, despite his megalomaniacal frothing, speak for all Australians.
He said the people who made the complaints heard only excerpts aired by an ABC broadcast, which also provided information on how to make a complaint to the authority.
"The people who complained to ACMA had not heard any of my program," Jones said. "If people don't listen to the program all the time, why then are 26 seconds of comment that I might have made chosen to hang me? If that doesn't constitute bias, I don't know what does."
Jones was overwhelmingly supported by listeners, who were given the telephone number of the authority's media spokesman, Donald Robertson, and encouraged to ring him with their views on the report.
Jones demonstrates his hypocrisy, once again. For those who can't immediately see it:
- he calls fire down from the heavens for the unfairness of people complaining about his show, who hadn't actually sat down and listened to it all through. (You have to understand his calls for bikie gangs to meet 'Lebs' at the train station in context, you see.)
- In retaliation, he gives his
useful idiotsfaithful listeners the contact details of the head of the ACMA, and urge them all to complain about a report which none of them have read.
The problem is, Mr Jones, that while you may indeed have said "But please don't actually hurt people that would be wrong", the 26 seconds you used to say that may be considered to have been drowned out by the other 2 hours of hatred, vitriol and frenzy.
And his bleating whinge that the complaints were taken out of context, somehow I doubt that the context was missing from the 835 pages of transcripts used to actually determine whether there was a case to answer. As far as it went, all that was needed was one complaint. The rest was more in the line of an affirmation that Jones does not, despite his megalomaniacal frothing, speak for all Australians.