The author and some posters above seem to imply that only Labor people are 'baiting' Alan Jones.
To my mind, it seems that everyone is upset at him at present, given he is just generally a nasty bloke on his radio station at times.

The Prime Minister, and any other intelligent person, would be upset at his comments regardless of where, and to whom they were made, surely?
The fact that it has become a political football is because he did insult the PM at a Liberal Party function, so Jones and his supporters have to expect this political fallout.

If some bigots of any political persuasion, choose to slag Jones off because of his alleged sexual orientation, then they should be dealt with severely by their own bosses.

I don't believe that the ABC is homophobic as a whole, but there will always be ignorant bigots in all organizations...

Me thinks the author is himself, being just a little bit precious and paranoid of reds under the bed; also contradictory to his usual antigay stance.

It's double double standards!

First based on the political leanings of the target of homophobia (Can you imagine Bob Brown being treated such), secondly on the much loved left critique of the right-leaning commentators as the homophobic ones.

I guess this rant is just another exercise in describing the auhors dislike/contempt of/for the ABC. A dislike shared by many of those on the right side of the culture wars including the current editor of the IPA Review, and the culture warriors of Quadrant magazine.

Presuming that both radio and TV still have an important part to play in helping to create and sustain a citizenry that are well-informed about the Polis in which they live.
And that both mediums can and should provide means and vehicles for promoting and understanding the best of Western culture in particular, and world culture altogether (because we now live in an instantaneously globalized multi-cultural world which is HERE TO STAY), I would suggest that if the ABC were abolished and we were thus left with only the commercal media (radio & TV) to "inform" us then both radio and TV would become a literal wasteland.

Which is what commercal radio & TV already is. Big Brother "Reality" TV rules OK! While we are simultaneously Amusing our Selves To Death (Neil Postman)

Extending on from that if one relied on the contents of both the IPA Review and Quadrant magazine as sources of ones understanding of the world, one would also be very impoversished re ones capacity to live in the now quantum multi-cultural world of 2012 and beyond.

The X factor, Reality TV and banal American tv promrammes are what the anti ABC want, then go for it.
Though remember lovers of commercial TV, every item you purchase has an advertising price costed into what ever you purchase.

We all miss the point.The left/right paradigm is a game used by the elites to confuse and control the masses.

Allan Jones today was praising Mitt Romney over Obama.Obama has balked at attacking Iran so the Zionist elites have thrown the might of their financial support behind Romney who will attack Iran.

Obama has expanded the wars of imperialism into Pakistan and Libya but has a personal dislike for Netanyahu.

There is very little difference between the two war mongering parties since they are both controlled by the banking,military industrial complex that Dwight Eisenhower warned us about many decades ago.