David Jones
David Jones is a Walkley Award winning journalist who is currently executive producer of the afternoon Drive program at radio station 2GB in Sydney. He started in journalism in 1964 at the Sydney Sun newspaper as a 14-year-old weekend copy boy.
Over more than 40 years, he has worked in newspapers, television and radio including periods as a news correspondent in New York and London. For much of the past 20 years, David worked as a political press secretary and in high level corporate public affairs.
Articles by David Jones
Happy birthday Frank McGovern
Let’s never forget men like Frank McGovern and Gavin Campbell. We’re losing them so quickly now, these veterans of World…... Read more
America’s mastery of free speech, even for maniacs
You’ve got to hand it to those Americans. For them, there is much more to democracy than theory. It’s there…... Read more
Kyle should use his free time to visit Auschwitz
Just a few years ago I ended up in Warsaw on a business trip to Poland where my former boss…... Read more
Brave woman who revealed James Hardies “fines” sham
James Hardie’s bosses should forget it if they imagine their company’s descent into a self-inflicted public relations purgatory will end…... Read more
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The humourless hysteria of the holier-than-thou
In I Spit On Your Grave, a young woman is gang raped in a remote woodland. She is beaten and tortured…
Cash mobs aren’t so flash
For a moment in the mid-naughties, they were the coolest of all cool social media-fuelled meme-thingos.…
If we wanted reality, we’d turn off the television
“Some day, far into the future, this here machine will become a powerful medium with the potential…
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choice ringside rantings
From: Punch on: Open thread 09/02/2012
marley says:
I'm one of the older ones, so I've certainly seen a few changes in my time. When I started school I learned to write with a nib pen, dipped in an inkwell (no, I'm not kidding). My mother became a dab hand at getting inkstains out of my clothes. Flicking ink at one another in the classroom was an essential… [read more]From: I’d rather have a piece of toast than listen to crap lyrics
Erick says:
Led Zeppelin are responsible for my all-time favourite mixed metaphor: "There you sit, sit and stare, like a book on a shelf rusting." (Misty Mountain Hop) I laugh every time I hear it. Hmmm, I believe I've decided what to play on the way to work today. [read more]Gentle jabs to the ribs
No wuckin forries. These nuckin futs are tuckin fops
Well, puck me with a fitchfork. The F-word is apparently an acceptable part of Australian speech. That’s… Read more
