Pathetic Australian journalist implicates ‘laughing’ Prince Charles in radio prank
JACINTHA Saldanha has died. Pranked on air by two Australian DJs, the nurse who worked at the hospital where Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, was being treated, seems to have committed suicide. You might have thought their hoax call funny. Wendy Harmer “Co-Founder of the Aussie women’s online mag, The Hoopla. Journo. author, stand-up, bigmouth, mum” thought it was great.
She tweeted:
“Those two kiddos are legends!”
But then Mrs Salandha dies. We don’t know why the nurse killed herself, as appears to have been the case. But Harmer reviews her funny bone:
I admit, I hadn’t heard this particular call in its entirety. I should have before I commented. Lesson learned. Now that I have, I hear that the call breaks the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) Commercial Radio code of practice …
It’s clear that the two DJs involved have broken the rules.
People are outraged and appalled. They are looking for someone to blame, but they should also remember that Prince Charles himself laughed off the incident. “How do you know I’m not a radio station?” the heir to the throne quipped as he spoke to reporters.
Harmer says of her site:
A message from co-founder Wendy Harmer:
“TheHoopla.com.au is an online news and magazine site for a community of wise, warm, witty and wonderful women. I believe that the views and concerns of mature Australian women are increasingly overlooked in a landscape of celebrity, youth and sensation. In what many have termed ‘a race to the bottom’, where can we see ourselves?…”
Enjoy the view.
Posted: 8th, December 2012 | In: News, Royal Family Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
December 15th, 2012 at 2:06 pm
What prk wrote this bile. Laughing it off is not meant literally its in referance to his comment which would be read as laughing off how easily it is to be fooled. Go back to school.
December 13th, 2012 at 1:39 am
I am not going to the tragic end.
to begin….Why is it funny to prank call a hospital?
there are so many things that can go wrong with the timing of this.
1 more step.
Once the nurse transferred the call, her job, credibility and name is on the line.
if aired , Her life, as she knew it, would be over.
Still they aired it. knowingly, at her expense.
who is to blame?, anyone who supports this low level of humor.
The sponsor’s, management ,audience ,etc, share the laughs, share the profit
Now they need to share the blame.
“Those two kiddos are legends!”
She tweeted, hoping to bask in the rays of the prank.
Harmer is still at a loss as to why she bombed a decade ago at the Logies
when she had to take it up a notch….. Her lesson is far from learnt.
December 11th, 2012 at 2:58 am
i could not agree more. deplorable. they didn’t learn from diana’s tragedy, now they visit it again upon her son. LEAVE THEM ALONE BEFORE KATE MISCARRIES!!!
December 9th, 2012 at 8:47 pm
They honestly cannot help their convict heritage can they? Common as dishwater, and refusing to take ownership or responsibility for their reprehensible behaviour towards a young pregnant woman who was sick, who was the target of their vile prank. A hard working woman who takes a professional pride in her work has heard her “mistake” being played over and over on a global scale, probably had a bollicking from the managers, after a long night shift, as a nurse I know how that feels.
God rest her and may this pair develop some sense of mindfulness about the hurt other people endure at the expense of cheap laffs.