Following Alan Jones’ spray against Jacinda Arden and the message from Macquarie Media chairman Russell Tate that “…any recurrence of commentary of this nature will result in the termination of his contract”, is the threat worth the paper it is written on?
Let’s take a look at the threat itself. The statement was issued on Saturday but is not on the Macquarie Media website. And, importantly, there were a couple of names and one company missing from his threat: Nine Entertainment, its CEO Hugh Marks, and Nine chair and Liberal Party elder Peter Costello.