Top-rating Sydney radio jocks Ray Hadley and Alan Jones have lashed out at journalists over their coverage of the Convoy of no Confidence, due to wrap up in Canberra this afternoon.
2GB mornings host Hadley yesterday criticised Sky News, his former employer, for ignoring the convoy in favour of coverage of the downfall of the Gaddafi regime in Libya. He claimed the subscription channel was focussing on events in the Middle East to bolster its Australia Network bid.
"Will someone at Sky News give Libya the flick please and go back to domestic issues because it's driving me cuckoo," the former auctioneer said. "I mean, not much has changed. There's a few fires burning, there's guns being fired in the air. But there's only so many gun shots you can hear in four hours of coverage...I'm Libya-ed out!"
Hadley quit his Sky News TV show, Hadley!, after four episodes earlier this year, because he reportedly believed it was under-resourced. Senior journalists at the subscription channel had also refused to work with the famously hot-tempered broadcaster.
As for breakfast king Alan Jones, he verbally attacked the Sydney Morning Herald sketch writer Jacqueline Maley yesterday for asking if he had been paid to speak at the Parliament House rally.
He also encouraged the crowd to heckle Sky News reporter David Lipson – whom he accused of misreporting the rally – as he did a live cross.
Jones has come under fire for falsely telling protesters that police had turned back a two kilometre long convoy of trucks at the ACT border. He said this was "the most disgraceful thing thing that has ever happened in our democracy", but according to ACT Police, no trucks were stopped at the border.
Jones didn't back down on air this morning, accusing police of redirecting trucks to the Australian Institute of Sport rather than Parliament House. He also accused journalists and politicians of refusing to listen to the concerns of the protesters: "Democracy is on the rack when people are vilified for simply wanting to have their say."
He said many of the protesters had legitimate and, sometimes, "tragic" concerns – such as a citrus farmers struggling with oversupply because of the high Aussie dollar and competition overseas. He said that the Australian Government should buy the excess oranges and send them to the famine-ravaged Horn of Africa instead of food aid.
STAY TUNED: Next week The Power Index launches its Megaphones list, with Jones and Hadley sure to place near the top.
Sully says: Seriously - if you have a good cause, and genuinely need support, asking arseclowns like Jones, Hadley, and Abbott to help you out, only makes people think your cause is a neo-liberal conservative waste of time.
Hadley and Jones are jokes. They have made their money from sensationalising topics, and peoples lives. That does not win campaigns. They couldn't win a campaign if their stinking rich lives depended on it.......
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