I'm a fan of the FM channels because they keep me peppy as I go about my usual chores in the morning and they become instant companions while I'm on long drives. The contents and information pushed out by the presenters are, at best, light on the uptake and enables me to pass the time.
However, what happened to the late Jacintha Saldanha from Mangalore is sad and unpardonable. A quick recap of the sad incident - despite the fact that it has been reported on various news channels time and again, over the last few days - would be in order.
46 year old Jacintha was working as a nurse in King Edward VII hospital in central London. She stayed, along with her husband and two teenage children in Bristol which was far away from her place of work. On that fateful night, two presenters of the Sydney radio station, 2DayFM - Michael Christian and Mel Greig - had impersonated Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla and got connected to Jacintha, on duty, who gave the details of Kate Middleton's(The wife of Prince William) morning sickness based on the queries posed to her. By the time she'd realised that it was a hoax call, the damage was done as the FM station had gone to town with its 'sensational scoop'.
The pressure and the taunts aftermath, drove the hapless young lady to suicide by hanging fron the fan in her room. What a sad end to a simple girl, who'd by all accounts, lived by the rules.
RIP Jacintha. I humbly bow to your dedication to work and the high degree of self esteem that you possessed. May god give your family the strength to tide over this difficult situation.
My take.
(a) The DJs, many a time, can be irritating with their non stop chatter. And continuous conversation can border on the inane but one really can't blame them in the manner they rule the air waves. But they need to be briefed properly on the limits of their work and handled firmly, in case of a behavioural overrun!
(b) The presenters are quite young - a few, even in their late teens - and thanks to their lack of maturity can resort to childish pranks. It's up to the station to monitor any such misdemeanour and nip it at the bud and it's here that 2DayFM failed totally.
Tailpiece.
I'd spoken my mind earlier on this topic too. Just like we guard our privacy, why can't we allow the celebrities to safeguard theirs?
However, what happened to the late Jacintha Saldanha from Mangalore is sad and unpardonable. A quick recap of the sad incident - despite the fact that it has been reported on various news channels time and again, over the last few days - would be in order.
46 year old Jacintha was working as a nurse in King Edward VII hospital in central London. She stayed, along with her husband and two teenage children in Bristol which was far away from her place of work. On that fateful night, two presenters of the Sydney radio station, 2DayFM - Michael Christian and Mel Greig - had impersonated Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla and got connected to Jacintha, on duty, who gave the details of Kate Middleton's(The wife of Prince William) morning sickness based on the queries posed to her. By the time she'd realised that it was a hoax call, the damage was done as the FM station had gone to town with its 'sensational scoop'.
The pressure and the taunts aftermath, drove the hapless young lady to suicide by hanging fron the fan in her room. What a sad end to a simple girl, who'd by all accounts, lived by the rules.
RIP Jacintha. I humbly bow to your dedication to work and the high degree of self esteem that you possessed. May god give your family the strength to tide over this difficult situation.
My take.
(a) The DJs, many a time, can be irritating with their non stop chatter. And continuous conversation can border on the inane but one really can't blame them in the manner they rule the air waves. But they need to be briefed properly on the limits of their work and handled firmly, in case of a behavioural overrun!
(b) The presenters are quite young - a few, even in their late teens - and thanks to their lack of maturity can resort to childish pranks. It's up to the station to monitor any such misdemeanour and nip it at the bud and it's here that 2DayFM failed totally.
Tailpiece.
I'd spoken my mind earlier on this topic too. Just like we guard our privacy, why can't we allow the celebrities to safeguard theirs?
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