If you haven’t caught it yet, Shea Allen, a reporter, has been fired.
While, sure, reporters get fired, Allen is added to the group who have been fired from posting on their personal blogs. Which, in turn, adds to the argumentative flame of where we draw the line between work writing and personal writing (and sharing).
Shouldn’t journalists be able to live a double life? One professional and one personal? If not, then why is it okay to have a fully professional life, but not a fully personal one in the world of reporting?
My response is this.
If anyone deeply cared, flat-out hated what she had to say on her personal blog, refusing to watch her professional reporting, are those people a news network really wants to have as part of their audience?
I sure don’t.
By the way, I eat almonds at work, I feel uncomfortable around disabled people, and I’ve had to do an interview without underwear because all of mine were dirty.
So what. Fire me.
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