The "Shock Jocks" my View.

A Joke gone bad has it's consequences . Here are our two  apologetic DJ's 

. Mel Greig and Michael Christian,

I guess a Prank is a Prank as long as NO ONE  GET's HURT . I am not trying to be a "devil's advocate" here , you know that in our society here in America we for a long time had to deal with Radio Shock Jock doing stunts for ratings  The call, in which they impersonated Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles.With the apparent  ** suicide of Jacintha Saldanha, the nurse who inadvertently put through a prank call to the hospital ward where the Duchess of Cambridge was staying, has provoked outrage, sadness and demands for retribution in all corners of the media.The tragedy has revived memories of previous practical jokes that have gone horribly wrong, but also stirred an already febrile debate on ethical boundaries, whether in the mainstream or social media, and what, if any, legal recourse should be available to people humiliated or taunted in public. I guess with all argument the two radio DJ's probably never wanted to hurt anyone . Practical jokes--or any kind of jokes--can backfire on joker very quickly and without warning. If it does backfire, there is nothing to do but to accept responsibility for the consequences. You made the joke, you starts it, you are responsible for whatever the end outcome is.responsible for whatever the end outcome is.It was a harmless prank that went south because of a woman with mental problems. I would not hold these two responsible for this woman's death. The nurse who actually gave out all the information doesn't seem to have a problem with it. I'm glad the DJs are not losing their job because some woman overacted to the point she took her life.The nurse who killed herself was from a foreign country, where public humiliation leads to shame. Of course the nurse didn't know the voices of the Queen and Duke. And after she found out that she had inadvertently allowed a bogus call through that exploited confidential information, she must have been shocked, frightened and tortured. Of course she thought she would lose her job. Of course she thought she had ruined her life and the lives of her family, after having worked so hard to become a nurse and help others. She was from India, a country where this sort of disgusting humor would not be understood.Is there any chance we're mistaking coincidence with cause? Did she leave a note stating that it was this incident that she felt led her to no out but suicide? Suicide is such a devastating decision and to reach it one normally needs to have reached a tremendous low point, and I'm not sure I understand how this prank could have affected her so strongly. Were there other factors in her life that were negative? I'm not saying there were, only that it seems something else might well have been amiss. I don't much care for prank radio shows or prank calls, as they can go terribly wrong and this is a serious risk for something that is not particularly funny, educational, entertaining nor uplifting. Whatever the case may be, it is truly a sad day all around.Is there any chance we're mistaking coincidence with cause? Did she leave a note stating that it was this incident that she felt led her to no out but suicide? Suicide is such a devastating decision and to reach it one normally needs to have reached a tremendous low point, and I'm not sure I understand how this prank could have affected her so strongly. Were there other factors in her life that were negative? I'm not saying there were, only that it seems something else might well have been amiss. I don't much care for prank radio shows or prank calls, as they can go terribly wrong and this is a serious risk for something that is not particularly funny, educational, entertaining nor uplifting. Whatever the case may be, it is truly a sad day all around.Is there any chance we're mistaking coincidence with cause? Did she leave a note stating that it was this incident that she felt led her to no out but suicide? Suicide is such a devastating decision and to reach it one normally needs to have reached a tremendous low point, and I'm not sure I understand how this prank could have affected her so strongly. Were there other factors in her life that were negative? I'm not saying there were, only that it seems something else might well have been amiss. I don't much care for prank radio shows or prank calls, as they can go terribly wrong and this is a serious risk for something that is not particularly funny, educational, entertaining nor uplifting. Whatever the case may be, it is truly a sad day all around.Is there any chance we're mistaking coincidence with cause? Did she leave a note stating that it was this incident that she felt led her to no out but suicide? Suicide is such a devastating decision and to reach it one normally needs to have reached a tremendous low point, and I'm not sure I understand how this prank could have affected her so strongly. Were there other factors in her life that were negative? I'm not saying there were, only that it seems something else might well have been amiss. I don't much care for prank radio shows or prank calls, as they can go terribly wrong and this is a serious risk for something that is not particularly funny, educational, entertaining nor uplifting. Whatever the case may be, it is truly a sad day all around.   It is easy to look through our cultural eyes and see it as a joke, but other cultures do not necessarily share our contemporary Anglo humor  and may well see such a prank as a great shame to bear, 

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

 **About 30 years ago there was a "craze" that music , some Heavy Metal Bands put subliminal messages in  their music driving Teenagers to commit suicide . I remember  "Ozzy" Osbourne" and "Judas Priest" recived  bad press because of acts attributed to their music . Our culture thrives on witch hunts instead of taking the least logical  'psychological ' explanation . The Bad press to Ozzy actually made him even more "famous" . People were buying his records trying to find any hidden messages . Like wise these DJ's are likely going to clime the road .  Right now there could be legal action against the DJ's. Only people to blame here are the hospital. Lets not forget that this is a VERY expensive private hospital.  Clearly they do not have in place a 24/7 professional call reception service that provides the expected level of checking and filtering compatible with the types of patients it looks after. If your going to look after celebrities, royals and billionaires then make sure you have communications and security managed by people used to dealing with this environment, and not leave it to some poor nurse to pick up the phone. 

Southern Cross Austereo also has apologized, and stopped running any advertising on 2DayFM following Saldanha's death. On Tuesday it issued a statement announcing that ads would resume Thursday, with all profits for the rest of December to be donated to "an appropriate fund that will directly benefit" Saldanha's family. The company said it would donate at least 500,000 Australian dollars ($525,000)

The world must be a terrible and frightening place for you if you can't stomach that. Hospitals have protocols for handling calls like those. People are making a huge deal out of this one lapse because the patient happened to be married to a privileged rich person who was born into it. If there was ever a link between the prank and the suicide (and I doubt it), it was because of the unwarranted attention being paid to the incident. What has the world become? It has become a place where 16000 children dying of starvation worldwide daily is less interesting news than the royal family doing shopping.