Did 2Day FM break the law? And does it matter?
Ethicist Denis Muller argues, in an article first posted on The Conversation, that bad behaviour eventually has bad consequences, and that the management of the Today Network is culpable.
When you make money by being infamous, as 2DAY FM does, the odds are that eventually your infamous behaviour will land you in serious trouble.
That has now happened with the hoax phone call to the King Edward VII Hospital in London about the condition of the Duchess of Cambridge, and the subsequent apparent suicide of the nurse who transferred the call.
The licensee’s CEO, Rhys Holleran, has said that the death of the nurse could not have reasonably been foreseen. Of course that is true. The specific sequence of events could not have been foreseen.
So, Today Network management DO deserve blame, AND do need to take responsibility?
Good article with balanced opinion, not the biased crap many are peddling.
Very interesting
Thank You Dennis. Hooray, finally, finally someone calling it on what it is! When people play with fire – like 2day do. When people use exploitation, humiliation, bullying in the name of ‘entertainment’. When people like Rhys Holleran continue to make excuses and thus allow a toxic environment to foster… well then really it is only a matter of time before someone is going to get burnt.
This is the one I reckon they’ve breached:
Part 2‑1 section 7 “Telecommunications not to be intercepted” of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979
– C2012C00738 http://www.comlaw.gov.au/Details/C2012C00738
There’s no exemption for DJs
Great article.