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Someone started a thread about this in Sightings, which wasn't exactly the right place for it:
So I restarted the thread here. Mods, if you think this belongs in Societal Woes or elsewhere, please feel free to move it.
Case you haven't heard, the basic details are:
1. Duchess Kate was hospitalised with severe morning sickness
2. Two morning shock jocks in Australia try calling in to the hospital, pretending they are the Queen and her son
3. A nurse on duty (at 5AM GMT, note) who is from India and therefore doesn't necessarily recognize the Aussie accents, answers the phone, thinks this is really HM the Queen and passes the phone on to another nurse,
4. who then proceeds to tell them about her current medical condition
5. The radio station airs the conversation, repeatedly, and giggling via social media "look how funny we are, hyuk hyuk"
6. UK media set up a howl calling for these two nurses' heads
7. The nurse who initially answered the phone is found dead three days later, presumed a suicide
8. UK media reverse 180 degrees and start calling for the jocks' heads
Of course everyone is blaming the radio announcers, but it seems to me there's quite enough blame to go around:
A. Mel Greig and Michael Christian, the two morons who thought it would be funny to call a hospital (at 0 dark 30 in the morning, when there's no switchboard operator and the nurses on duty are nearing the ends of what might have been a long hard shift) asking first to speak to a celebrity patient, and then asking about her medical condition, while impersonating the most powerful person in the country
B: the management staff at 2SkyFM radio station, who reviewed the tape of the conversation (which didn't go out live on the air) and decided to broadcast it;
C: the legal staff at the abovementioned station, who tried (allegedly five times) to get through to the hospital to get their permission to air the tape, never got though to them, and cleared it anyway;
D: the British tabloid press, and their online commenters, who were responsible for much of the outrage against the nurses in the first place, until the tragic end of the story happened;
E: the hospital. They have claimed that they were very supportive of the two nurses, but who knows what was said behind closed doors
F: the nurse herself, for taking what Jester once called "the selfish way out"
and last but not least,
G: the imbeciles who listen to this station, and others like it, and think that embarrassing someone in front of the whole world is funny.
So whaddaya think?
Originally posted by DougieZerts
Case you haven't heard, the basic details are:
1. Duchess Kate was hospitalised with severe morning sickness
2. Two morning shock jocks in Australia try calling in to the hospital, pretending they are the Queen and her son
3. A nurse on duty (at 5AM GMT, note) who is from India and therefore doesn't necessarily recognize the Aussie accents, answers the phone, thinks this is really HM the Queen and passes the phone on to another nurse,
4. who then proceeds to tell them about her current medical condition
5. The radio station airs the conversation, repeatedly, and giggling via social media "look how funny we are, hyuk hyuk"
6. UK media set up a howl calling for these two nurses' heads
7. The nurse who initially answered the phone is found dead three days later, presumed a suicide
8. UK media reverse 180 degrees and start calling for the jocks' heads
Of course everyone is blaming the radio announcers, but it seems to me there's quite enough blame to go around:
A. Mel Greig and Michael Christian, the two morons who thought it would be funny to call a hospital (at 0 dark 30 in the morning, when there's no switchboard operator and the nurses on duty are nearing the ends of what might have been a long hard shift) asking first to speak to a celebrity patient, and then asking about her medical condition, while impersonating the most powerful person in the country
B: the management staff at 2SkyFM radio station, who reviewed the tape of the conversation (which didn't go out live on the air) and decided to broadcast it;
C: the legal staff at the abovementioned station, who tried (allegedly five times) to get through to the hospital to get their permission to air the tape, never got though to them, and cleared it anyway;
D: the British tabloid press, and their online commenters, who were responsible for much of the outrage against the nurses in the first place, until the tragic end of the story happened;
E: the hospital. They have claimed that they were very supportive of the two nurses, but who knows what was said behind closed doors
F: the nurse herself, for taking what Jester once called "the selfish way out"
and last but not least,
G: the imbeciles who listen to this station, and others like it, and think that embarrassing someone in front of the whole world is funny.
So whaddaya think?
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