Fair cop on media ruling, Mr Jones

Advertisers want this market, but also don't wish to offend their other customers or their staff. I doubt senior company managers from Middle Eastern backgrounds (such as those in Westfield or NAB) would want their advertising budget spent on broadcasters who talk about bikie gangs taking on Middle Eastern thugs on the eve of Australia's worst race riots this century.

Radio stations survive on advertising dollars. Just as small businesses in Cronulla survive on weekend crowds down at the beach. Your average Cronulla shopkeeper doesn't mind if the dollars come from Middle Eastern or Anglo-Saxon people. Yet they suffered because certain sentiments were played out both on radio and on the beach, sentiments that they never expressed.

It's only fair that a Sydney radio station and shock jock suffer a little pain. Jones didn't have to read offensive and racist emails on air. He didn't have to mention bikie gangs gathering at railway stations. If anything, Jones and 2GB got off lightly. They should cop the effects of the law, just like the rest of us do.

Surely shock jocks, of all people, wouldn't want to see anyone get away with breaking the law?