THE creators of a Facebook page which urged companies to pull advertising from Alan Jones’ breakfast show has now called on him to made an on-air pledge.
The social media group Destroy the Joint, called on Thursday for employees of the Macquarie Radio Network, including Jones, to commit to challenge “anyone who uses sex, race, religion or sexual orientation to incite hatred or to demean or vilify”.
They further asked for the controversial shock jock to read a pledge on his 2GB show.
“I want an Australia where girls and women, where men and boys, can take part in our society without enduring discrimination, sexism and violence,” the pledge reads.
“I want an Australia where we respect each other; an Australia where no person experiences hate because of their gender, race, religion or sexuality.”
Jones sparked a public backlash when his comments that Prime Minster Julia Gillard’s father “died of shame” because of her lies became public.
The Macquarie Radio Network announced on Sunday it would be temporarily suspending all advertising on Alan Jones’s 2GB breakfast show, after an “unprecedented focus” on the controversial shock jock through mainstream and social media.
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I thought they wanted him off the air. Now they want him on the air. These terrorists keep changing their list of demands.
They really think they can pressure Jones to say that statement? Yeah right. I presume the point is really to pressure him to say it, with the predictable result that he will refuse to say it or to ignore the request, and upon that say, “Look, Alan Jones doesn’t support a society where we respect each other and people of all genders, races, religions or sexuality can take part in our society without enduring discrimination, because he won’t say our spiel.”
It would be evident from my previous post that I’m no fan of Jones, but I have to say that I wouldn’t react very well to someone telling me what to say. Mind you, Jones has shown with the Cash for Comment scandal that he’s willing to be told what to say as long as he’s PAID for it…maybe Destroy the Joint needs to PAY him??!!
The point you made on FB which I thought was a really interesting one, Terje, was that if someone from the ABC makes a comment which offends me…whom do I boycott? What sponsors do I write to? [The power of the market does not apply to them.]
Well, while I don’t agree with what they’re demanding, I would defend to the death their right to demand that Mr Jones say what they are demanding he say.
LE@3 I’m sure that somewhere on my tv and radio there’s a little knob marked ‘on/off’. Be brave
KVD, indeed, of course they may ask Jones to say whatever they want to say.
Actually, I don’t watch much TV. And I’ve only ever once been offended by something I saw on the ABC, whereupon I did indeed press the off button and write an outraged blog post (I’ll find it later, gotta go teach).
Here’s the thing I was once offended by. IIRC, I think the public outrage did lead to the game being taken off the ABC Kids website, so clearly public outrage has some traction.
On the ABC “game”, shades of the Richard Curtis exploding kids video disaster. There really is a line of greenery which, consciously or unconsciously, sees homo sapiens as a plague species on what otherwise would be a really nice planet.
L @7: “There really is a line of greenery which, consciously or unconsciously, sees homo sapiens as a plague species on what otherwise would be a really nice planet.”
And they are outnumbered 100 to 1 by the Randian libertarians who think DEM and other disabled folk are an untouchable class of untermenschen that should live nasty, short and brutish lives without charity or sympathy.