A Simple Answer To Chez Pazienza’s Lement
THE answer to this questiosn about Chez Pazienza’s is ‘No’:
Should journalists be permitted to maintain personal — and highly opinionated — blogs on their own time? Chez Pazienza, a senior producer for CNN’s “American Morning,” says the network fired him on Tuesday on the grounds that he violated its standards for journalists through his blog, Deus Ex Malcontent.
Mr. Pazienza announced that he had been fired through — what else — a blog post on Wednesday. “What was the reason for my abrupt and untimely dismissal?” he wrote. “You’re reading it. More to come soon.”
“CNN has a policy that says employees must first get permission to write for a non-CNN outlet.”
He contends that the policy had not been made clear to employees and was overly vague. “It’s purposely set up so they can be subjective,” he said. “Does that mean I can’t post on a MySpace blog that my friends read? Does that mean I can’t post something online to my wife?”
Dunno. Why don’t you ask someone, be an investigative reporter and investigate…