Prank Call Kills?

[JC]

Originally Posted by flappist

My thoughts on this:

It is a tragedy when a young lady, Jacintha Saldanha, who was employed as a nurse in a hospital appears to have taken her life after passing a prank call through to another nurse caring for a high profile patient.

My questions:

1) This is a hospital. Why did none of the trained professionals and admin staff notice that this lady was fragile?

2) How did the lady listen to 2Day FM in UK? Or did she see/hear this in the UK media, the same media who are now scrambling for high ground and blaming the presenters.

3) All of these death threats etc. from outraged do-gooders. The presenters had no malice or evil intent with the call, the do-gooders are creating the same situation for the presenters but ARE doing it with malice and evil intent. If one or both of the presenters suffer harm because of this is that fair? Or should the do-gooders then be hounded.

4) Why do radio stations do prank calls if EVERYONE thinks they are wrong and dangerous and should be banned? After all the ratings would be less than zero and high profile advertisers like Coles and Telstra would have withdrawn their money years ago.

My wife is a Prep teacher. The kids do all sorts of silly things but one thing never changes, if an accident happens they all go into a frenzy blaming someone else, anyone else, just to take any focus off them. Little kids are all instinct and very little thinking. Some things don't change as you get older.

So to sum up:

Who is to blame for this tragedy?

I AM TO BLAME FOR THIS TRAGEDY.

I listen to the radio and enjoy it.
I laugh at presenters antics.
I shop at Coles and use Telstra.
I watch the media going bezerk on "A current today sun-minutes".
I talk about it on the internet.
I watch clips on youtube.

And I suspect there may be a few more people who do the same........

What I do not do is grab a pitchfork and join a lynch party to destroy the lives of two young people just so I can feel better about myself and pretend that some form of revenge might bring Jacintha Saldanha back to life or make her family forget how this tragic event robbed them of her.

Not that I'm judging, but this is one of the best discussion points I've read on this. I agree 100% and would even go further to say that the media that blew up a storm about a prank call (that perhaps 500,000 people in Sydney heard live and probably all laughed at) are more responsible for the subsequent actions than those that did the prank.