This may be the best thing I have read regarding the current state of american media ever. Good read. Link
The only part worth reading is one paragraph because he detailed his feelings in the workplace. The rest seems like a lengthy advertisement of his blog...New internet media FTW! Frontline's piece on the news media that originally aired last year is time well spent on knowing why the news soulless entertainment right now. Part 3 is particularly depressing.
What was he writing on HuffPost and/or his blog? I don't see a problem with CNN terminating him, depending on the content. Let's say it's inflammatory, racist stuff (just as an example). If someone connects the guy, it hurts CNN if someone reports "a CNN producer of American Morning is a known racist" or whatnot. I think if you're working for a news outlet like that, it's obvious that you should be aware that you might want to check with your employer in what you publish on other outlets. Was anything he was posted controversial? Maybe it would have been smarter for CNN to give him a warning or a cease & desist type thing, but if it was inflammatory enough, I don't see a problem with a firing.
He should land easy. They tell me that blogging for the HuffPo is one of the job requirements at MSNBC.
It wasn't that he was writing racist stuff, it was that he was writing leftist stuff. The last thing a news organization can afford is the confirmation of bias. Especially confirmation of bias that many people were already accusing them of.
Major: I apologize if the intent of the post was not clear. I really don't care about the firing, it may have been justified, it may have not. Certainly, it was handled rather poorly. But I was really more interested in his comments regarding the methods used by the so-called journalists. The evaluations with respect to shareholder value are particularly damning from the perspective of "independent and unbiased news".