2Day FM with blood on their hands...

[James Martin]

Sky News have the story.

As someone who used to work in radio in the UK, for whatever reason Australian commercial radio has always been seen as a "beacon" of great radio - and in the 90s and much of the 00s we had a lot of Aussies in management over here, importing formats borrowed from Australian commercial radio.

But this just strikes me as morally bankrupt.

[Ryan]

I'm torn. Part of me thinks I should be outraged at the station for this and yet another part of me actually feels really sorry for the DJ's involved, because what started of as probably a funny prank blew up in a way that probably couldn't be foreseen. It's as if they started the fire, but didn't necessarily pour on the kerosene.

I can't say I'm in to that kind of radio, indeed I tend to listen to CD's in my car since there always seems to be to much blethering, self promotion and adverts on the radio nowadays.

[Red Ranger 1]

I heard about the prank on Wednesday and just rolled my eyes a bit.When it was the first story on the news last night, I was expecting them to say she'd been sacked or suspended and was getting ready to sigh about it, then when they said she was dead I was horrified.Like Ryan, I can't really bring myself to hate the DJs involved because I can imagine they must be feeling what I felt about a hundred times over coupled with the guilt involved, which really is punishment enough.Maybe there's a wider lesson about humiliating people on national radio for a laugh but, without meaning to trivialise it, there must have been something else going on in her life because otherwise happy people don't normally kill themselves over a single embarrassing incident.I was surprised to realise it wasn't even the nurse that gave out the information, just the one who transferred the call through.

[Formerly Known as FKAJ]

If they do face legal consequences of this - and I'm not saying they shouldn't, what with impersonating royalty and obtaining confidential information by (however half-assed) deception - I really hope that the nurse's death won't be taken into account.