NPR host fired for participating in OWS protests

[Chris_]

NPR host doubling as ‘Occupy DC’ spox fired from syndicated radio program

After violating National Public Radio’s ethics code by acting as a spokeswoman for Occupy DC protesters, Lisa Simeone was fired Wednesday evening from one of the two public radio programs she hosts, the Associated Press reports

Simeone has downplayed the ethics violations, saying the shows she hosts aren’t political. “I find it puzzling that NPR objects to my exercising my rights as an American citizen — the right to free speech, the right to peaceable assembly — on my own time in my own life,” she told the Baltimore Sun.

“I’m not an NPR employee. I’m a freelancer. NPR doesn’t pay me. I’m also not a news reporter. I don’t cover politics. I’ve never brought a whiff of my political activities into the work I’ve done for NPR’s ‘World of Opera.’ What is NPR afraid I’ll do — insert a seditious comment into a synopsis of Madame Butterfly?”

Daily Caller

Lesson #1: being a snarky bitch toward your former employer is not the best way to get your old job back.

[Eupher]

Daily Caller

Lesson #1: being a snarky bitch toward your former employer is not the best way to get your old job back.

Lesson #2: Leftist media outlets are always quick on the trigger to oust someone who even appears to hold the same political views as the organization's executive management and ownership. It's the famous double-standard that everyone knows is there but they don't admit to.

[thundley4]

I'll bet she supported NPR firing Juan Williams. Free speech only refers to the government, not private corporations.

[longview]

If she is a freelancer, then she can look at it like NPR just decided to move in a different direction and her skills didn't fit. 

[Chris_]

OWS claims another one.

How Occupy Wall Street Cost Me My Job

The next day, The Takeaway's general manager fired me over the phone, effective immediately. He was inconsolably angry, and said that I had violated every ethic of journalism, and that this should be a "teaching moment" for me in my career as a journalist. The segment I had pitched, of course, would not happen.

Gawker

[Eupher]

I seem to remember something about "unintended consequences"......