Now broadcaster told to say sorry over 'vermin' comment

By Phillip Coorey, Stephanie Gardiner
Updated October 4 2012 - 8:58am, first published October 3 2012 - 3:00am
''I am not in the business of ignoring a big audience'' ... Tony Abbott, right, with the MP for Paterson, Bob Baldwin, and Newcastle Liberal Party candidate Jaimie Abbott, during a visit to the Weathertex factory north of Newcastle yesterday.
''I am not in the business of ignoring a big audience'' ... Tony Abbott, right, with the MP for Paterson, Bob Baldwin, and Newcastle Liberal Party candidate Jaimie Abbott, during a visit to the Weathertex factory north of Newcastle yesterday.

ALAN JONES has been forced to say sorry for the second time this week after a tribunal ruled yesterday that he must apologise on air for calling Lebanese Muslims ''vermin'' before the Cronulla riots seven years ago.