Here is the news: I quit! Norwegian radio reporter walks out after two-minute rant on air

 

 

By Mail Foreign Service

Last updated at 1:19 AM on 12th September 2010

 

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A Norwegian radio journalist had an on-air meltdown and dramatically told startled listeners that she had quit her job and would not be reading the day's news bulletin.

Pia Beate Pedersen announced to listeners of public broadcast station NRK that she was 'quitting and walking away' because she 'wanted to be able to eat properly again and be able to breathe'.

 

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Her comments were part of a two-minute diatribe, in which she accused her NRK employers of putting too much pressure on staff.

She capped hoff the rant by refusing to read the news bulleitn, saying there was no news to report.

'Nothing important has happened anyway,' she snapped before walking out.

Ms Pedersen had worked at NRK for 18 months, and station spokesman Oeyvind Werner Oefsti said her on-air rant and sudden resignation came as a total surprise.

NRK covers the capital Oslo and the Ahershus regions.

Her dramatic meltdown was reminiscent of Steven Slater's resignation via evacuation slide from a JetBlue aircraft last month.

The 38-year-old flight attendant became an international sensation when he ripped into passengers over the intercom, deployed the emergency chute and slid away from the plane clutching two beers.

He has been charged with trespassing, reckless endangerment and criminal mischief and faces up to seven years in prison if convicted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Wait, when was this? I listen about half an hour every morning.

Wait, when was this? I listen about half an hour every morning.

 

Obviously not during that half an hour, then!:P

Wait, when was this? I listen about half an hour every morning.

It's alright since nothing important happened anyway :P

It's alright since nothing important happened anyway :P

 

What about that fire in the fish finger factory?:rolleyes:

Darn, I thought it was something else :rolleyes:

Well, I only listen on weekdays so, yeah :P Would have been cool to hear.

Darn, I thought it was something else :rolleyes:

 

haha i know what anette's referring to

 

yeah ... i got my hopes up too anette