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Shock Jock Pranks: Do They Go Too Far?
As two Australian shock jocks undergo a probe after posing as Royals to gain telephone access to Kate Middleton’s hospital room, we’d like to hear your thoughts on shock jocks in general and the pranks they pull.
It’s all good fun until somebody gets hurt. That’s the mantra it would seem radio shock jocks from Australia to Tampa Bay follow. Unfortunately, for two disk jockeys in Australia, somebody did get hurt. Mel Greig and Michael Christian, who work at Sydney’s 2Day FM, have been indirectly (and by some directly) linked to the suicide death of Jacintha Saldanha. Saldanha, a nurse, was fooled by the two shock jocks into believing they were Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles. She connected them to the room where Kate Middleton, wife of Prince William, is resting following complications from pregnancy, according to Yahoo News. Following the incident, Saldanha is said to have committed suicide. It’s unclear whether the royal snafu had anything to …
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Zigsauered
4:13 pm on Tuesday, January 8, 2013
I lean more to her commission of violating patient rights by letting in the callers. This in itself with the possible accumulation wrongful standard of nursing acts would cost her job/license? What people don't know is nurses legally make NO mistakes! Again I understand that people really do not know this. I am not a lawyer, but this may help. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omission_(criminal_law) more ›