EXCLUSIVE: Bitter media bully Alan Jones is set to lose his status as Sydney radio’s resident old man yelling at the clouds with bosses at 2GB deciding not to renew his contract this month, according to sources.
Macquarie Radio honchos will finally cut loose 77-year-old queen of the airwaves, Alan Jones, from its cabal of racist Angry Old White Men which dominates its talkback radio lineup. Jones has less than six months left on his current contract.
Fresh from being forced into
a grovelling apology delivered on live televisionbetween gritted teeth for having called former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull a “traitor to the nation”, the veteran broadcaster has now been cut adrift by bosses who no longer want to risk paying multi-million defamation payouts to the victims of the septuagenarian’s rancid, twisted tongue.
Nine is the major shareholding owner of Macquarie Radio, having consumed the radio network as part of its takeover of Fairfax Media. Macquarie Media did not respond to requests for comment when contacted by
True Crime News Weekly.
Our sources have informed us that 2GB Mornings presenter, Ray Hadley, and Drive host, Ben Fordham, are both fighting like hyenas to be first in line to replace Jones in the breakfast slot. While
there are reports former Today Show clown Karl Stefanovic is lining up a shot too.
Last September, one of Jones’s hateful, ongoing rants cost his bosses a record defamation payout, after a judge awarded Queensland’s wealthy Wagner family $3.7 million in damages over comments the radio broadcaster had made about the 2011 Grantham floods. Basically, in a series of twisted rants, Jones had blamed the family as a cause of the floods.
The
judge found Jones’s defamatory comments were “extremely serious and of the gravest kind”.
It was the biggest defamation payout in Australian legal history.
Apart from the grovelling apology to Turnbull last month, Jones had been forced into another just last October after he went into
a demented rage towards Sydney Opera House chief executive Louise Herron. Widely already known for his hatred of strong women in the public eye, Herron was simply the latest victim of Jones’s unique brand of queer misogyny. Others in the past have included Sydney’s lord mayor, Clover Moore, as well as former Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who Jones wanted
“put in a chaff bag” and dumped at sea.
In August 2012, the self-hating weirdo went on his radio show to squeal that “women are destroying the joint”. At the time of his comments, Jones was speaking with that fine specimen of malehood,
the now-disgraced, sleazy former Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce.
Sexism isn’t Jones’s only stock in trade. There’s also plenty of out-and-out racism.
In October 2012, a court ruled that Jones had helped incite the Cronulla Riots with
a series of diatribes about Muslims in April 2005.
The NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal had found Jones “incited hatred, serious contempt and severe ridicule of Lebanese Muslims” during on-air comments prior to the Cronulla Riots which saw White Australians down at Cronulla beach attacking anyone vaguley deemed of ‘Middle Eastern appearance’.
Jones had used his radio program to describe Muslims as “vermin” who “rape and pillage a nation that’s taken them in”.
The longtime radio racist was also forced to apologise again
last August for using the expression “n*gger in the woodpile”.
“The n*gger in the woodpile here, if one can use that expression – and I’m not going to yield to people who tell us that certain words in the language are forbidden…” Jones wailed on his radio show like the racist old bloke from Queensland that he is.
Earlier this month, Jones donated $10,000 of his radio fortune to the racist, far-right One Nation party, with it’s NSW branch led by the former Labor leader turned intellectually comatosed Trumpesque grifter, Mark Latham.
In a desperate last bid to rescue his megabucks paypacket with 2GB, Jones seemingly called in a few last favours from some of his other dinosaur mates.
There was John Singleton, his former boss, popping up in News Corp early last week. ‘Singo’ told the Daily Telegraph that
if he was still the boss of Macquarie Radio he would have Jones signed up to a new contract months ago. Singleton remains the second largest shareholder in Macquarie Radio, after the Nine Network.
Political yobbo and former Labor Party dodgy bloke, Graham Richardson, was
also there last week publicly sucking up on Jones’s behalf.
“Alan Jones is a phenomenon,” Richardson drivelled in an opinion piece published by News Corp trash broadsheet The Australian.
“He has limitless energy that enables him to work 20-hour days. I have no idea what the source of that energy [is].”
We could make a few possible suggestions for this unaccounted for energy. Cocaine? Pills? Red Bull? The workings of an internally twisted, repressed and reprehensible creature? Who knows.
FM radio village idiot Kyle Sandilands was another to have
opened his gob in support of Jones in recent days. Dumping the sexist, racist broadcaster would be “catastrophic”, according to the KIIS FM shock jock.
The public pleas to save Jones from the axe seem to have fallen on deaf ears though. Or rather, on the ears of bosses who have now tuned out from whatever racist, crackpot theories Jones has been selling and getting away with for two decades. They made millions off him. They sleep well knowing all the money they made from hate speech. It’s just that they can’t really afford the record defamation payouts any longer.
