Alan Jones has only been back at work a week and he’s already whipping up a parental fear frenzy:
Children at risk from every angle
Alan Jones
We need to reflect on the dreadful story of a young 19-year-old woman being raped in a taxi in November last year, twice indecently assaulted as she drifted in and out of sleep.
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Then a nine-year-old girl is the latest victim of a reported child abduction attempt in Sydney in the past month. And this at a time when the Safety House network has been disbanded last year without public debate.
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Well may parents wonder how safe their children are on the streets. And lament the seeming inability of society to protect the innocent.
But tragically parents may face the same concerns in the nation’s classrooms. Not through physical violence, though that occurs as we know through unchecked bullying, but through intellectual assault.
If you’re still wondering whether Alan is back to his same old tricks, here’s something he said in the audio version (in bold) that was left out of the published article:
‘Justice has prevailed and the taxi driver, 22-year-old MD Kawsar Ali [PAUSE] I wonder how he got into the country, will be sentenced in November.’
Thinking of the children… the white ones at least.
3 comments
Bob Bain says:
Sep 21, 2008
I have been reviewing my archives dating back several years where I attempted to explain to Alan Jones various problems associated with censorship laws at the present time.
He replied in a very terse tone that I had failed to explain (in detail) what the issues or what the problems were – and when I attempted to explain ( by return email ) the very details he requested ( and which I was only too willing to explain ) the email and all subsequent emails were rejected.
All further attempts to contact this journalist ( arrested in a London toilet several years ago failed ).
It has never been fully explained how it came to be that Alan Jones managed to get arrested in a London toilet although from what I understand it was some form of misunderstanding between himself and the local constabulary in the United Kingdom. Perhaps the answers can be found here..
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/10/20/1160851142104.html
I rarely if ever listen to Alan Jones – not because he fails to make what might be valid points – it’s merely that he approaches the microphone much like the Wizard or Oz did in the film of that name.
Bob
Stevian says:
Sep 22, 2008
To call Alan Jones a journalist is perhaps a little generous. He does however seek to uphold Australian values, those values are racism sexism and homophobia to name but a few. We she should be grateful that he shows us the face of Australia, to which so many of us are willfully blind.
Carolyn says:
Sep 28, 2008
So I guess Alan Jones forgot about those Australians who are stabbing taxi drivers in their cars. I guess they’re excused because they were born here.