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Shoving a sock in it is not the answer. Have advertisers called time on Alan Jones?

  • Written by Amanda Spry, Lecturer in Marketing, RMIT University
Shoving a sock in it is not the answer. Have advertisers called time on Alan Jones?More than 50 advertisers have so far withdrawn from Alan Jones’ 2GB radio show, buoyed by social media campaigns naming and shaming those who remain.AAP/Paul Braven, CC BY-ND

When Alan Jones encouraged Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison to “shove a sock down” the throat of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, it was...

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