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Flat White

Sacking Alan Jones was never the end goal

18 May 2020

5:00 AM

18 May 2020

5:00 AM

Anyone who’s been paying attention to the foulest fringes of the culture wars knows that Alan Jones was never the end goal.

The fierce activist campaign to remove him from radio was just piece one of an activist jigsaw.

When Daily Telegraph reported this weekend what “happened behind the scenes” of the end of Alan Jones’ breakfast show, it put in black and white what we all suspected.

And, frankly, we should all be incredibly concerned that the pursuit of ideological power is now having commercial consequences.

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