An Australian radio network came under media pressure on Tuesday to fully explain who cleared the broadcast of a royal prank call, as the family of a dead nurse embroiled in the hoax appeared in public.
In tearful interviews on Monday, 2Day FM presenters Mel Greig and Michael Christian said that their call to London’s King Edward VII Hospital – which was treating Prince William’s pregnant wife Catherine – was vetted by others.
“It’s not up to us to make that decision (to air). We just record it and then it goes to the other departments to work out,” a sobbing Greig told Australia’s Nine Network.
Christian added: “There’s a process in place for prank calls or anything that makes it to air, and you know, that’s out of our hands.”
Greig and Christian have borne the brunt of global outrage following the apparent suicide of nurse Jacintha Saldanha, who fielded their hoax call.