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Kyle and Jackie O: Tears and cheers as controversial long-running Australian breakfast radio show implodes (www.bbc.com)
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[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 weeks ago

Humans are just the worst. People actually found this acceptable entertainment:

Over the years, the show has attracted much controversy. In 2009, the show was investigated after a 14-year-old girl was asked about her sexual history while strapped to a lie detector, forcing her to admit she had been raped when she was 12.

Another time the pair told a Cambodian-Australian woman they would bring her niece to Australia but send the niece back if she did not correctly choose the door she was standing behind. The woman chose the wrong door, broke down in tears and begged for her niece to be allowed to stay, which the show agreed to.

No great loss indeed.