MSNBC Video: NBC Anchor (and Registered Nurse) Julie Pearce quits job to help in Haiti

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/35168622#35168622

:patriot:

[Brickbat]

1. Here's a print version from the local paper:

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/158902/publisher_ID/36/ (link will expire in a few days)

Julie Pearce could no longer watch videos from the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti while working as a weekend anchor at Northland’s NewsCenter.

So she gave notice to the local NBC affiliate and bought a one-way ticket to Haiti.

“In good conscience, I could no longer sit back and read those headlines knowing that I have the skills they so desperately need right now and the ability to make a difference,” Pearce said in an e-mail interview.

Pearce, in addition to a being a journalist, is a newly licensed registered nurse who said she is being called in a new direction. The 29-year-old will anchor her final shows this weekend. She has been with the television station since 2006.

Other ways to help:


Julie Pearce Medical Relief Team

Checks to: Julie Pearce
8430 Bay Springs Dr.
Orlando, FL 32819

Financial/medical supplies
Attention: Michelle Lee
Northland’s NewsCenter
246 S. Lake Ave.
Duluth, MN 55806

Minnesota Nurses Association
www.sendanurse.org

[rox63]

3. Now that's walking the walk

Instead of just talking the talk. :applause: :patriot:

[localroger]

5. As an atheist, I have to commend her

If more people of faith acted as she is doing, we atheists would have a much better impression overall of people of faith.

[Brickbat]

6. Her faith isn't mentioned at all in the story.

What's the connection?

[onehandle]

2. I forget. Who was the Fox News anchor who did the same?

oh, right...

[sabrina 1]

4. Good for her, she will be rewarded in more ways than any job at

a TV anchor desk could do for her.