Norway Newsreader Quits in Live Radio Broadcast

A Norwegian radio journalist quit on the air after complaining about her job and saying she wouldn't read the day's news because "nothing important has happened" anyway.

Pia Beathe Pedersen accused her employers at the regional radio station of public broadcaster NRK of putting too much pressure on the staff.

Pedersen said in the live Saturday broadcast that she was "quitting and walking away" because she "wanted to be able to eat properly again and be able to breathe."

She ended her nearly two-minute announcement by saying there wouldn't be any news on Saturday. The disgruntled reporter had worked at NRK for 18 months. Her station covers Oslo and the Ahershus region.

[mikelpond]

This would never happen in the USA; too much vital stuff to "report" about Sarah Palin and Lady Gaga.

just sayin,
mike

[incog-nito]

Of course, if this were the U.S., she would have walked in with an arsenal of weapons, blow away everybody she can see, and finish off with herself.

[babooph]

In the States,central control makes it possible that only one "news" be put out,we now have a bunch of "ditto"news -late night comics do have some real stuff now & then...

[westerly1]

We would be better off if some of our 24/7 talking heads would admit to there bias & stupidity and walk off the air citing lack real news.

[tsigili]

That's amusing. The media is no fun place to work, either, now is it?