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Welcome to Hypocrisy Corner!"You Have Blood on Your Hands" screams a British tabloid trying to claim the moral highground. This from a media that has been involved in phone tapping and entrapment for years, commenting on a couple of young radio presenters who meant no malicious intent.
Ian MacRae
Yes it turned very tragic and unfortunate however the 2 radio hosts deserve full support which SCA are giving and credit to them for it. Nobody would of ever considered the outcome from this "Gotcha call" and certainly no harm was meant except for obvious embarrassment which is 99.9% of the time the outcome of these calls. Every day Jocks(and producers if your lucky enough to have them) are expected and encouraged to come up with fun,crazy, seize the moment, on the edge content to deliver on air and it seems on talk radio the more Labour bashing or burn the boat people type comments are a must to stay controversial and win ratings.Sometimes things do go wrong or too far but we are human and it's not a perfect world.
Guy Ashford
I dould not agree more with PS's comment on the sad and tragic suicide of the young nurse.
Jeff Kenneth said it as many others said it apart from the frenzied and blood thirty hyped up media or individuals - a tragic coincidence. The two up and coming Radio persons are as sorry as anybody else. I would also be very depressed hearing the lynch mob mentality and outcry against me.
It would have been much better to wait for the outcome of the investigation into the death of that poor nurse than go into an overkill with death threats, and blames.
It has been good to see some balanced comments in the media, including from Peter Fitzsimmons in the Sun Herald today. When I first heard of the tragic death of the nurse, my first thought (and comment on an earlier story that was on radioinfo) was how devastated Mel and Christian must be feeling and that I hoped they would get all the support that they need.
I suspect that there was more going on in the poor nurse's life that this incident tipped her over the edge.
Thank you Peter for a thoughtful and insightful editorial.
These two set the wheels in motion. Nice to see all you "radio people" cover for two of your own. SCA should lose the 2DAY license!