Just shows how fucking dumb Australians and Australian radio can get.... of all the people in the world to prank call, they try to pretend they are the royal family. This is obviously not a spur of the moment thing, they would have to practice their accents and it would need to be cleared by the producers... producers probably in their 30s or 40s who have had ample experience. Obviously not enough life experience to know you don't mess with hospitals and the royal family...
and sad that the DJs were still boasting about making international headlines after the call...
the royal family is sacrosanct, there's 120 million britains who would not make the same call out of respect of their privacy... Australians are so far removed from the rest of the world they don't have a clue about the world they live in....
i honestly believe there's a massive problem with commercializing media, because you get stunts like this that do things just for ratings and absolutely lame shows with no value at all... i look at government backed BBC and see how much better it is to have channels that are informative and not purely driven by commercial reasons alone.
here in australia there are prank calls on radio ALL the bloody time and yes they are funny to a certain extent but some of them are really cruel and frankly they are getting old. I suspect australian radio will forget all about this in a month or so and carry on making prank calls.
all in all i fucking hate australian radio... so glad we live in the era of podcasts where I can listen to my own shit. Sometimes I feel like I don't belong with the mainstream cause i don't listen to commercial radio or watch commercial TV. bleh....
Enough with the self loathing. These fuckheads are not representative of most Australians. You obviously don't like them, most of AusGAF seems not to like them, I don't like them. And you seem to have missed the greatness that is ABC. It may not be BBC, but it is a damned sight better than the commercial shite.