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Originally Posted by willx
From a legal perspective, unless the act of accessing Kate's medical records was itself a crime, the impersonation to get access to such, is itself not likely criminal. The U.K. doesn't appear to have privacy laws that would cover this .. so despite the morality of it all, it doesn't appear to be illegal.
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The prank may or may not be illegal, but were the DJs' actions ethical?
Should the media be a slave to ratings? Must media always pander to the lowest-common denominator to survive? At what point should a media worker say enough is enough? It's one thing to say that a decision is out of your hands, but quite another to not even raise an opinion over potentially questionable material.
I should clarify that I'm not blaming the DJs per se, but rather the system that allows them to believe that they had no say over the decision-making "process".