megpie71 (![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} megpie71) wrote,@ 2012-10-19 07:12:00 |
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| Entry tags: | custard pie in flight, it's different for: politicians, it's different for: the rich, living with: the media, rampaging through the blogroll, storming the castles, the personal is political |
Alan Jones Goes To Journalism School
To be honest, I'm not surprised Alan Jones has had to go to Journalism school. What should be surprising people is that this man got a job as a broadcaster without having any journalism training in the first place. Mr Jones previous history (as per Wikipedia) is as an English teacher, a rugby coach, a parliamentary speech writer, and an unsuccessful conservative politician. There's indications he was very successful as a rugby coach (it's what he got his MAO for, after all) but aside from this, most of his paid employment since approximately 1974 has been as a result of his connections in the Liberal and National (formerly Country) parties.
He used to be a columnist for the Sun-Herald (but lost the job after publishing a column which was pretty much a straight lift from a Frederick Forsyth novel without bothering to attribute his sources - the other staff at the newspaper campaigned to have him removed as a result).
Alan Jones was never a journalist. He was never trained as a journalist. He should never have been taken seriously as a journalist. He's a demagogue. Simple as that.
Sources and Resources:
http://theconversation.edu.au/a-very-nau
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-18/al
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Jones_%2
http://www.independentaustralia.net/2012/b
http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=P
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