Jacintha Saldaha, the nurse who believed she was transferring
a call from "the Queen" was found dead today several yards from the
hospital. The prank was considered deeply embarrassing for the hospital, which
said it had been supporting Ms Saldanha during a difficult time.
According to Australian Channel 4, The Sydney-based radio station 2Day FM was continuing to
promote its prank Kate call on air on Friday, referring to it as "the
prank call the world is talking about".
2Day FM has a history of shock jock prank calls. The
Australian Communications and Media Authority imposed a licence condition for
five years ordering 2Day FM to provide increased protection for children after
a 14-year-old was attached to a lie detector test in 2009 and pressured to discuss
her sex life on air.
Despite the girl's protests that she was "scared"
and believed the questions were not "fair" the "Kyle &
Jackie-O" radio show host encouraged both the girl and her mother to
discuss whether she was sexually active, to which the girl responded:
"I've already told you the story of this and don't look at me and smile
because it's not funny. Oh, okay. I got raped when I was 12 years old."
To which the host replied: "Right. And is that, is that
the only experience you've had?"
"Overall, we believe that the child was exploited and
treated cruelly by 2Day FM. The broadcast made the exploitation all the more
humiliating and public," the Law Society of New South Wales Young Lawyers
said in a submission to the Australian Communications and Media Authority in
September 2009.
In another incident, the radio station said it had raised
$AUS 150,000 for a family who believed they were being awarded the money to
help care for their disabled child. When they tried to claim the donations,
they were instead given the names of those who'd pledged money.
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