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Intolerance of Alan Jones WorksWe as a collective proved that in past days, the social media campaign that when launched was already in overdrive then it hit hit warp speed and succeeded in putting Jones in his place with greater success than the Courts ever managed.
After his outrageous “die of shame” comments about the Prime Minister launched a social media campaign that led to a stampede of advertisers off his morning radio show, yesterday he was
told by Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) that he must undergo “accuracy training” after being found out telling one too many porkie pies on radio.
Now since I have no doubt this is blog 9000 on Alan Jones remarks and behaviour lets move away from the mainstream “Jones is an asshole” into my favourite place, exposing bigoted hateful liars. And Jones is all those things as I have shown below.
For something like 25 years Alan has been speading his pearls of wisdom, venom and hate across as much of Australia as he could manage, and for most of those years he has enjoyed almost complete immunity from retaliation from a large group. Usually he just had to worry about getting sued by those he defames, and we know he does as he loses a lot of Court cases for exactly that offence.
Lets go down memory lane with some of Jones individual and personal best moments but apart from the recent catylist I have left the infamous convoy of coinfidence out. Most know all too well Jones vile rhetoric, deliberate inflammatory lies that Police stopped protestors entering Canberra, and his close support of Tony Abbott at that rally. So strong was the presence of Jones and Abbott many protestors had the issues they wanted addressed almost ignored in lieu of Abbott campaigning for his “election now”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=G0K5RrDYVLUSo lets begin shall we.
There were strong calls for
2GB] to sack Jones in October 2012 following remarks he made at a Sydney University Liberal Club function a week earlier. The remarks concerned the death of Prime Minister
Julia Gillard‘s father, John. Jones said that Mr Gillard had
“died of shame to think that his daughter told lies every time she stood for parliament”.Jones’ speech was secretly recorded by a journalist. After the remarks were condemned across social media and the Australian media, Jones held a press conference and attempted to apologise. Many labelled his apology as insincere and fake, with Jones using the press conference to criticise Gillard’s performance as Prime Minister. Jones also attempted to contact the Prime Minister to offer a personal apology, but was unable to reach her. Several sponsors pulled advertising from Jones’ program. One academic linked the public reaction to the “bigger political and media context”, citing the
Inquiry in Britain, saying that it shows the
“dark side of media power, including bullying by media owners and powerful media individuals who lobby politicians, demand favours, use their outlets as a bully pulpit and to seek revenge when they don’t get their way.Unsubstantiated comments on climate change
On 15 June 2012 the Australian Communications and Media Authority found that Jones had breached the commercial radio code of practice in his reporting of environmental issues.This related to his claim that
“human beings produce 0.001 per cent of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere”. ACMA chairman Chris Chapman said that the watchdog was not penalising the licensee of 2GB, but was working with it to improve procedures.
Breach of Radio Standards
On 25 November 2011 the Australian Communications and Media Authority found that Jones had breached the commercial radio code of practice in his reporting of environmental issues. His reporting was found to lack accuracy and failing to allow other viewpoints to be heard. A decision on the penalty for this breach was reserved.
Jones is / was (December 2011) being sued by health bureaucrat Terry Clout over comments made by Jones in March 2009.
In 2008 Jones was found to have defamed Australian Olympic Committee chief John Coates in comments Jones made regarding Coates’ handling of an incident involving rower Sally Robbins’ performance at the 2004 Olympics.
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Jones was originally convicted of breaching the
Children’s (Criminal Proceedings) Act 1987 (NSW), by broadcasting the suppressed name of a juvenile witness in a murder trial.
The deputy chief magistrate, Helen Syme, criticised Jones for not issuing an on-air apology to the boy he had named, and said that Jones’ offence was “serious”. The magistrate placed Jones on a nine month good-behaviour bond, fined him $1000.
Outside the court, Jones said,
“The court found it was not a simple mistake. My view does not count.”In February 2008 Jones lost an appeal against his conviction. His lawyers told the judge they would be challenging the penalty at a future date.
On 27 March 2008, Jones’s criminal conviction was quashed. The judge presiding over the appeal, Judge Michael Finnane, said:
“While it was no excuse from liability in law that Mr Jones relied on The Daily Telegraph, the fact that he did, to some extent ameliorates the seriousness of the offence.”The judge confirmed Jones’ guilt, but dismissed the charge and annulled the conviction.
On Wednesday 18 October 2007 it was revealed that NSW
State Coroner Mary Jerram was referring Jones and
The Daily Telegraph to the
Supreme Court for comments made the Friday earlier relating to the inquest into the death of
Private Jake Kovco. Jones claimed that assisting counsel John Agius had unfairly attempted to persuade Kovco’s mother into refusing a jury inquest, comments which Jerram stated could prejudice the inquest.
http://wrb330.wordpress.com/wiki/Jake_KovcoIn December 2005, in the lead-up to the
Cronulla riots, Jones used his breakfast radio program to read out and discuss a widely-circulated
text message calling on people to
“Come to Cronulla this weekend to take revenge… get down to North Cronulla to support the Leb and wog bashing day”,which was similarly discussed in the wider media including on the front page of publications like the
Sydney Morning Herald. Media commentator
David Marr accused Jones of inciting racial tensions and implicitly encouraging violence and vigilantism by the manner of his responses to callers even while he was verbally disapproving of them taking the law into their own hands.
On 10 April 2007, the
Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) found that the broadcaster 2GB and Jones had broadcast material (specifically comments made by Jones between 5–9 December 2005) that was;
likely to encourage violence or brutality and to vilify people of Lebanese and Middle-Eastern backgrounds on the basis of ethnicity.http://www.independentaustralia.net/Wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/jones_f...David Flint leapt to Jones’ defence by appearing on Jones’ morning show
“to support his friend and to condemn the process that found him guilty. He told 2GB listeners that the vigilante movement existed at Cronulla long before Jones began broadcasting and that the ACMA findings amounted to a classic case of shoot the messenger. He said the complaints process was flawed because, unlike the Press Council, Jones could not face or question his accusers”.The NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal upheld a complaint of racial vilification against Jones and 2GB on 21 December 2009. The tribunal said:
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