CNN Fires Producer Over Personal Blog

A senior producer for CNN is stating he was fired from the news network over his personal blog. Chez Pazienza, a senior producer for CNN’s “American Morning,” announced that he had been fired in a post last week on his blog, Deus Ex Malcontent.
Looking over some of his posts, I can definitely see some CNN executive squirming in his seat while reading them. Example:

“I wake up every morning baffled as to why America hasn’t thrown George Bush and Dick Cheney in prison, Hollywood hasn’t stopped trying to convince me that Sarah Jessica Parker is attractive, gullible soccer moms haven’t realized that they share absolutely no kinship with Oprah, and Fox canceled ‘Firefly.'"

In an age when anyone can instantly post online content from wherever they are, companies seem to be just recently coming to grips with this aspect of the internet.
Customers are now taking their gripes online to a wide audience. Companies have begun to respond to and actively search for what is being posted about them at sites like Planet Feedback and The Consumerist. In doing so, they are finding their employees may also be posting content online in personal blogs and internet forums.
In 2006, Forbes magazine published an article stating only 15% of employers had specific policies addressing work-related blogging; and that "16% of the employees who maintain blogs have posted information that could be considered negative or critical regarding their employer, supervisor, co-workers, customers or clients."
As a result, employers are increasingly implementing blogging policies, as CNN has, and enforcing them. Google 'fired for blogging' and you see how common this is becoming.
You'd better watch what you post online. It could get you fired.

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