if the station had empathy and respect they would not have broadcast the call.
now they are trying to recify the situation and paying up shows they consider they have contributed to the death.
No it doesn't, at all. Firstly I was under the impression its a fund they set up donated to, though I saw something else suggest it was the advertising money from the show or something along those lines.
But ultimately, their jobs are in trouble, the station is in trouble, and their advertisers are walking out the door..... you are catagorically stating them giving some money as implying their guilt. The FAR more likely scenario is they are paying as a good will gesture to make people think they aren't bad people and to fend off the ridiculous media backlash. Notice I said far more likely, I'm not stating someone elses intentions like you have a ridiculous number of times in this thread.
IF the media hadn't decided they were to blame, and nothing was said, and people just said "oh, she killed her self, how sad", would they still be paying up? Not very likely, which suggests logically that the giving of money is more down to the reaction then the act or result.
Either way, there was a story today, a father died while doing the Gangnam dance at a party.... obviously by the same logic as those in this thread. Because Psy came up with that dance, and he died doing that dance, and had he never invented that dance this man could never have died doing this dance.... he's to blame... right?
The painfully stupid part of this all is, IF she did commit suicide over transfering a call..... it will only be because the media turned a non story into world wide news... IE the media is at fault and you could also suggest those who read the gutter press WANT to see stories like that and hence it was only made into news for the readers, so they are at fault. Likewise, people are only deciding these guys are at fault because again the media decide to make up and push a story because its something they know the daft masses will read about and buy their papers to see the story.
Both the nurse being "made into a laughing stock" AND the harrassement of the Aussie DJ's, is because of the gutter press taking non stories and making them into some big blown up pile of stupid crap, and they only do this because they know the stupid masses want such content and will pay them money for such content.
IE Joe Average Sun/DailyMail reader is at fault for the press making this story a big deal, and the readers should have foreseen the consequences of letting the press harrass anyone to make some stupid story for them to read.
When the girl was murdered a couple years back and the completely innocent landlord was arrested and deemed a murderer by the same papers, and everyone believed it. They make up this crap because their readers want it, the papers harrass people FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT, and blame everyone else when it backfires.
