American news cuts off congresswoman for Justin Bieber

*Facepalm*

MSNBC was interviewing a United States Congresswoman about the NSA scandal when they interrupted her mid-sentence to tell her there was breaking news they had to cover.

Justin Bieber was standing in a courtroom. Not doing very much.

And this wasn't even when the story of Bieber's arrest broke: it was hours later, and all that was happening was his brief appearance in court.

The video went to the top of Reddit, with the disbelieving comment: "This actually happened on MSNBC today".

We're a news site, and we understand the difficulty in balancing light-hearted viral news (like this) and entertainment articles.

But can you imagine Bryan Dobson telling Enda to 'hold on a minute, we've got Niall Horan in for speeding'?