CNN PRODUCER FIRED FOR BLOGGING

CNN Fires Ranting Liberal Producer for BloggingNewsBusters.org ^ Matthew Sheffield
Posted on 02/14/2008 8:51:44 PM PST by RatherBiased.com
CNN has fired producer Chez Pazienza after the network brass realized he had been blogging at his own left-wing site and several others over a period of years:

In a phone interview this morning, Mr. Pazienza, 38, said he joined CNN as a senior producer in January 2004 and has consistently received positive performance evaluations of his work. He spent his first year at CNN at the network’s headquarters in Atlanta, then moved to New York to work on “CNN Daybreak,” which has since been canceled, then “American Morning,” which is shown Monday through Friday, from 6 to 9 a.m.

Mr. Pazienza said he started his blog in May 2006 as a way to keep his mind occupied while he was on a medical leave of several months after an operation to remove a brain tumor. He got noticed by blogs like Drew Curtis’s FARK, a popular news-aggregation site, and Pajiba, a left-wing blog of movie and book reviews. [...]

Then, a few months ago, Mr. Pazienza was invited to start blogging on The Huffington Post, the group blog founded by Arianna Huffington.
In a blog post and an interview with the New York Times, Pazienza insisted that his blogging was a personal affair. That does not appear to be entirely true, however.
In the blogger profile section of his site (which appears on every page), Pazienza states the following: "I wake up every morning baffled as to why America hasn't thrown George Bush and Dick Cheney in prison."
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