Forgive me, but how is this a freedom of speech issue in the first place. CNN is a private company. They can fire an employee for whatever reason they want (within the limits of the law). This woman is perfectly free to keep saying whatever she wants on her twitter account. So really, her right to free speech doesn't come into this at all. She's losing a job that gave her a platform for speech (which is not the same as speech itself), but it wasn't her platform to begin with. It was CNN's.
That's what I was thinking. Freedom of speech doesn't mean you can say whatever you want without consequences. I mean if you publicly embarass the company you work for you should expect to get fired, the same way if I called my boss a Jackass infront of my coworkers I would probably get fired. All freedom of speech means is the government isn't going to throw you in jail for saying those types of things. I would be more concerned if the government stepped in and said that the company had to rehire this worker.
all people have to do to show their disgust with the decision is to stop watching cnn.....oh wait....they already have.
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CNN, and 99% of the media, is in it to make money. They are not on a mission of truth and fairness from God. They felt these comments may have a negative impact on their bottom line so they did what they felt they had to do in order to protect said bottom line.
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CNN, and 99% of the media, is in it to make money. They are not on a mission of truth and fairness from God. They felt these comments may have a negative impact on their bottom line so they did what they felt they had to do in order to protect said bottom line.
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Exactly. Journalism died the minute broadcast executives discovered that they could make money from the newsroom. There is a reason WHY Lindsey Lohan is the lead story on many local news telecasts... the same reason why 30 minutes of evening news, sports and weather are followed by 90 minutes of Access Hollywood... and WHY FOX News is the number 1 rated News source. Sensationalized entertanment is what America wants... not boring journalism.
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Forgive me, but how is this a freedom of speech issue in the first place. CNN is a private company. They can fire an employee for whatever reason they want (within the limits of the law). This woman is perfectly free to keep saying whatever she wants on her twitter account. So really, her right to free speech doesn't come into this at all. She's losing a job that gave her a platform for speech (which is not the same as speech itself), but it wasn't her platform to begin with. It was CNN's.
and there is something wrong with that.
'you are free, provided you can pay for it'.
that's capitalism for you. CNN can say whatever they want (and whetever they want is whatever the state wants, as is with every major media source).
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Exactly. Journalism died the minute broadcast executives discovered that they could make money from the newsroom. There is a reason WHY Lindsey Lohan is the lead story on many local news telecasts... the same reason why 30 minutes of evening news, sports and weather are followed by 90 minutes of Access Hollywood... and WHY FOX News is the number 1 rated News source. Sensationalized entertanment is what America wants... not boring journalism.
Hail, Hail!!!
'you are free, provided you can pay for it'.
that's capitalism for you. CNN can say whatever they want (and whetever they want is whatever the state wants, as is with every major media source).