CNN Fires Blogger

Funny, for an industry that thrives on freedom of expression, they can be rather harsh censors of their own people.

Chez Pazienza was fired from her job at CNN for blogging about her job at CNN.

While I understand that a company has to protect it’s proprietary secrets and shareholder value, somehow news companies seem like they should rise above the rest in protections for freedom of expression.

The firing of Chez Pazienza for blogging just gives credence to her criticism of CNN as a company that has lost touch with the core values of the news media that made Murrow and others of his generation respected giants of American culture.

It seems CNN’s effusive support of blogs, bloggers and blogging (not to mention freedom of expression) is somewhat of a superficial show of face and not a real core value.