The corporation that owns 2DayFM announced it will donate all the station's advertising profits for the rest of the year to a fund set up to support Saldanha's 2 teenage children and husband.
The company estimates the total donation will be around 320,000 British pounds ... or roughly $500,000.
2DayFM's generous donation comes the day after it pulled the plug on the show that placed the prank call to Kate Middleton's hospital room ... with one of its DJs pretending to be Queen Elizabeth.
Saldanha transferred the call to Kate's room, and was found dead near the hospital a few days later.
Wondering :
I hope the information about the 12 year old wasn't live...,.That would be an Invasion of Privacy
As for the $1000 gag, that's a little low.
If they keep violating the broadcast codes, why still have the station on the air? Time to look at the bigger honchos instead of the Radio DJs. They are the ones who are allowing this behavior to continue and even encourage it .
Those DJ's should never work in any form of media again. They are responsible for what happened, no matter how extreme. If they didn't do what they did, that woman would still be alive.
Yes, these dj's and station needs to have something done about them. A hospital and sick patient should never have been chosen for a victim to begin with. If your job duties involve pranking then you should know better than to prank Hospitals etc They are there to save lives and care for sick people. They aren't there for the amusement and entertainment of radio dj's. You always take a risk if you prank someone you know nothing about.
There is a mentality out there , that appeals to some people ...to humiliate someone .
But , you tend to forget that some people get off on saying or doing anything for attention or money.
This woman that killed herself , just was an innocent bystander ..
She may have been of a different culture , for instance , didn't she come from a country that has honor killings ,
It is a big world out there and we are not all alike ..Technology makes you interact before you think.
I am sure these DJs feel awful , but given some of the other stuff that didnt stop the station......they pushed the envelope for money and ratings.
This woman wouldn't be the first pushed over the edge by people looking for ratings.either..people should stop and think
They were not calling someone in show business or media ..this woman didn't expect to be pranke
"Be kind because everyone you meet is fighting a battle".
This is a lesson. Even if we as outsiders maybe don't understand the nurse decision to commit suicide it teaches us that we never know what a person struggles with.
"Be kind because everyone you meet is fighting a battle".
This is a lesson. Even if we as outsiders maybe don't understand the nurse decision to commit suicide it teaches us that we never know what a person struggles with.
"Be kind because everyone you meet is fighting a battle".
This is a lesson. Even if we as outsiders maybe don't understand the nurse decision to commit suicide it teaches us that we never know what a person struggles with. Thats why everyone need to be kind.
I've read articles saying the nurse was humiliated by the prank call. People wonders if she had other struggles as well.
To the DJs, you can't humiliate someone in the name of entertainment without there being consequences.
Screwing around with private medical information should be criminal, thanks to these two it will become even more difficult for families and friends to get information about loved ones as the knee jerk politicians make a flurry of new laws.
Actions have consequences. No the DJs didn't make the lady take her life, but their selfish actions caused her undue additional stress which led to her death.
The fact is this Radio Station, put this woman, a private citizen up for international ridicule and this has ultimately led to her not being able to handle it and killing herself.
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