As usual the troglodytes supporting hate speech in the name of freedom overlook the fact that Jones is given power via the airwaves that very few have. When people use new media to counter this imbalance in media power, the end of the world is upon us. Jones' approach to his role as a media commentator is completely irresponsible and no media organisation should sponsor such abuse of the role.

Re: Commercial radio and "I was looking for that law but couldn't find it."

Did you check out the law of the jingle?

...“The lynch-mob mentality” as promoted by the new-age social media: If opinions can be freely expressed then opinions can be freely changed at a “whim”.

...Some recent examples are, Assange, the Arab spring, Allan Jones, Jill Meagher and the march of the thirty thousand and more, mass party riots.

...Social media is becoming a threat to social stability!

Nick Ferrett – good, balanced article about the new zealots.

It raises the question: is it In Australia's interests to have twitter and face book campaigns forcing governments and organisation to make sudden decisions? Inevitably such decisions will be knee-jerk reactions and, therefore, poorly considered. Here are some examples of media campaigns that have forced government policy and commercial decisions that damage Australia:

• Cattle trade to Indonesia suddenly stopped and even after restart is severely damaged in the long term
• Fishing ship blocked despite it having been approved on scientific grounds
• Gunns in administration as a result of the campaign against the bankers for the Gunns Tasmanian pulp mill
• Gordon Gas project blocked by anti-development activists
• Catastrophic climate change – there has been massive cyber-bulling on web pages and on mainstream media, like ABC and Fairfax press, and other news outlets criticising those people who are sceptical that climate change is ‘catastrophic’ or ‘dangerous’. The ABC had been vitriolic about people who do not agree with the orthodoxy – for example calling such people ‘deniers’ with all that that term connotates and is intended to connotate.

The bullying about catastrophic climate change is extended to those who do not accept that carbon pricing or renewable energy will deliver net benefits.

It seems the ideological Left/’Progressives’ are the new wowsers

"Jones' approach to his role as a media commentator is completely irresponsible and no media organisation should sponsor such abuse of the role."

Jones said Gillard’s father died of shame.

Parents should not be responsible for the failings of their off-spring when the offspring reach maturity, but as a broad concept, some exceptions to that rule should exist.

Gillard has presided over the largest compilation of national debt in Australia’s history; nothing worthwhile has been produced by that accumulation of debt.

Gillard has killed people through her policies, pink batts, boat people; she has vitiated the very concept of Australia as a nation since a nation requires borders which are controlled; Australia’s borders are porous to a state of non-existence.

Gillard has union affiliations which are demonstrably corrupt, sleasy and immoral; personally, her background of relationships, whatever you think about marriage or the notion of realtionship integrity, set a deplorable example and one which negates any claim that she may make about supporting the ‘sisterhood’.

Also personally, Gillard arguably has a case to answer for her actions at Slater and Gordon, where she admitted to forging the purpose of an application for association, an act which legally, as far as I can see, has no distinction with the offence which Einfeld was convicted of.

More recently, as has been revealed, a case can be made that she has authorised the expenditure, directly and through targeted foreign aid, of an amount of somewhere between $3.5 and 4 billion to buy a seat on the security council, which, also arguably, has no other purpose other than providing an avenue for getting rid of her equally destructive predecessor.

The list goes on. And Jones is pilloried and subject to potentially illegal activity per S 45D of the Competition and Consumer Act because he said her father died of shame.

I read a saying once, along the lines of "None of us is as stupid as all of us." In my opinion, mob mentality, especially when unchecked, rarely ends up at the right place. It always goes too far.

Alan Jones is a bully and he uses his position and followers to bully others on a regular basis. He misinforms and then ignores those who speak against him. I have rung a couple of times, to correct facts (not opinions) and have been howled down. This is unacceptable.

However, the solution to this is not to bully and belittle the advertisers (and in particular their poor receptionists), as this is simply repeating the behaviour you are supposedly protesting against. Protest by all means, but don't go too far. Don't bully the bully...