RINJ Foundation Says Shock Jocks Promoting Sexual Violence Against Women Should Be
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Toronto, Canada - December 3, 2011 - RINJ
Campaign has responded to members and colleagues in Australia who are exposed to
broadcasters who favour rape of children and violence toward women as 'ratings boosters'.
RINJ Foundation activists will coordinate with other organizers a boycott
of advertiser's products until the network in Australia sets a good
example by dealing correctly with air time hosts who broadcast hatred
and violence.
RINJ will join other groups to seek sanctions against
the Southern Cross Austereo network from its broadcast licensing
authority, the Australian
Communications and Media Authority.
On the Eve of White Ribbon Day, part of Australia's campaign to stop
violence against women, the country was shocked when a
quasi-syndicated air host at Southern Cross Austereo's Sydney, Australia
FM station launched into a series of personal attacks against a popular
Australian journalist about her breast size, calling her a
"piece of s---" and threatening to "Watch your mouth girl, or I will
hunt you down." (Read
more.)
RINJ Foundation supporters complained Friday in emails
and one poster on the
RINJ Facebook page noted,
"when I listened to an old video of this "Kyle and Jackie O" rape-joke
tag-team exploit the rape of a 12 year old by strapping her into a chair
and polygraphing her at age 14 (apparently) about a rape that happened
to her at 12 ... I shed a tear for my little sister. Do you think you can
try and do something about this horrible situation where a radio network
is exploiting rape and mistreatment of women and children for
shock-jock-ratings and advertising money"
"It seems sad that this may be indicative of a sliding
culture in Australia similar to the decline in the USA" responded Micheal O'Brien,
co-founder and spokesperson for RINJ dot Org.
"In the past two years", said Mr. O'Brien, "Vile Kyle Sandiland, a
person holding out to be a broadcaster without notable talent or
eloquence, has come
to rely on extremely offensive attacks on women and children to gain notoriety and ratings.
He has proven himself a propagator of hate-speak against women and to be a rable-rousing muck raker who exploits the rape of 12-year-old children
to gain ratings.
"Tacky 'free speech' is one thing but when a wannabe-broadcaster misuses
his microphone at Southern Cross Austereo in Sydney Australia or
anywhere for that matter, to wilfully bring harm to people, he and the
network's principals should be charged and brought before their peers
sitting as jurists in a criminal court."
RINJ Foundation is an international organization
headquartered in Toronto and
founded by persons in Canada, Britain and Australia.
RINJ seeks removal of media content condoning sexual
assault and rape.
Allowing this content on social networking sites and in other media further normalises a
rape culture and the high instance of sexual violence in global society.
1)
RINJ reports all inappropriate content to the public, advertisers and law enforcement where that seems appropriate.
2)
RINJ reports to advertisers any ads
appearing on pro-rape, pro-child-molestation media content, web pages and
social network groups.
3) RINJ promotes a global boycott of advertisers and their products
advertised on pro-rape content in any media.
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