Norwegian radio reporter quits job on air
September 12th, 2010 - 4:39 pm ICT by IANSLondon/Oslo, Sep 12 (IANS) A Norwegian radio news presenter surprised her listeners as she announced that she is “quitting and walking away” and “nothing important has happened anyway”.
Pia Beate Pedersen announced to the 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”.
According to the British newspaper Daily Mail, 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.
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.
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