Comment from Peter Saxon

“I think there’s a conversation to be had in media rooms and newsrooms right around Australia and the world… about giving these people what they want. If these people want to go around killing people in the name of religion or anything else why are we satisfying their needs?”  Ben Fordham 2GB. Friday, July 29, 2016

Warfare 101 dictates that you find out what the enemy wants and deny him.

Comment from Peter Saxon

They call him Bond, Caleb Bond.
 
Australia’s aspiring talk back announcer and at age just 16 he has some pretty good credentials.
 
“…about this time last year I became interested in print and it presented itself as something far more accessible as an entry point to the media than radio. I asked around to try to find out how to get into writing. Early this year I penned a piece and decided I’d send it to The Advertiser and see what they said. They ran it and I’ve had occasional columns in The Advertiser and Daily Telegraph since.

Today the war between 2GB’s Ben Fordham and KIIS FM’s Kyle and Jackie O came to an end in what is now being called the ‘photoshop accusation saga’. 

It all started on Tuesday, when Fordham pointed the finger at Kyle & Jackie saying he thinks they photoshop their social media photos, specifically pointing out one they posted with singer Adam Lambert that day.

When the KIIS team caught wind of Fordham’s tongue-in-cheek accusations, they invited him on onto the breakfast show to set the record straight.

Since his first epileptic seizure at age seven, Ben Fordham says he has lived in fear of the uncertainty of when the next attack might occur.

He feared that epilepsy would ruin his radio and television career if it couldn’t be managed properly.

Mike Gibson began his media career as a print journalist covering greyhound racing and rugby league, then moved to radio, joining George Moore on the 2SM Morning show in 1976, before switching to 2GB in 1979. 

He then began hosting Wide World of Sports in 1981.