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AN explosive biography of Australia's most influential radio broadcaster, Alan Jones, has been canned by a jittery ABC board after he threatened to sue if the book were published.
ABC Enterprises director Robyn Watts announced yesterday that it had decided not to publish Jonestown, an unauthorised biography of Jones, because it would "almost certainly result in commercial loss, which would be irresponsible".
Its author, multi-award-winning Four Corners journalist Chris Masters, said he was angered by the decision not to publish Jonestown, four years after he was commissioned by the ABC to write the book. Masters said the reason for the decision not to publish the book was that Jones had threatened to sue.
"The commercial reasons are legal reasons," Masters said.
"Essentially, the worry is that they...