Royal Pranksters Canned

From Tom Taylor's NOW newsletter this morning...

First they were suspended, now they’re terminated – and Mel Greig and Michael Christian must be feeling a draft, from the lack of support from management at Sydney’s 2Day FM. They never thought their phone call would be put through to the London hospital where Kate Middleton was being treated. They did the two-minute bit, clumsily posing as Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles. Then comes the key part here – they waited to see if it would air. Michael Christian told an Australian TV show “We don’t get to make those decisions. That’s done by other people…our role is just to record and get the audio and to wait to be told whether it’s OK or not OK and act upon what we are told.” It was management at Sydney’s 2Day FM that cleared the bit, which was followed by the suicide of a hospital nurse.

I know they were encouraged to do bits like this, but you really can't argue with the decision to fire them. Of course, management could/should be fired too.