Kaz wrote:Just to add, on the subject of others who have been using the prank call format as entertainment for years, did anyone hear the Dom Joly interview on Radio 4 yesterday morning? Mick did and Joly stated categorically that they should have had consent to broadcast this and that the call should never have been broadcast without it, never mind federated ie played all over the world! Joly always gets consent and without it they drop the idea....................I should imagine it was the same for Candid Camera and the like...................
Kaz, you're a cynic! (You did say to call you one) ;-D
Another reason to chop of their heads? Oh how we'll cheer in the market place when it plops into the basket.
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And then the Daily Hatemail and the like will run articles wringing their hands about how people cheered when they saw the arterial blood spraying into the crowd.
As far as they were concerned consent had been sought - so if it's not the case, then it's not their fault but their producers. But it won't be the producer's because it will be the station owner's. But it won't be the owner's because it's the hospital's. But it won't be the hospital's because it was whoever name Jacintha. But it won't be whoever named Jacintha because they didn't actually 'put the bullet in the gun'. There's another thread on here about
personal responsibility . . . but that doesn't create as much 'fun' as playing the blame game - and let's face it, even when people appear on TV to apologise for their part, they're not believed because they didn't look right, or they didn't sound right, or they put emphasis on the wrong word, so yes, let's chop off their heads.
Until there's an enquiry we'll never no the truth of the matter, and even then will we ever know the truth? There are always three sides to every story: his side, her side and then the truth. Jacintha may have died anyway, but until there's an enquiry we'll never know.