Panegyric the right way and you can go back to your desk. Do it wrong, or disagree, and H.R. will help you pack your shit and show you to the door.
From CBS News:
Multiple firings
A number of employees in a range of industries, as well as in academia, are finding themselves in hot water over remarks they made about Kirk's death or his political beliefs.
PHNX Sports, an online sports news site focused on Arizona, announced the firing of reporter Gerald Bourguet after he said on social media on Wednesday, in a since-deleted post, that "Refusing to mourn a life devoted to that cause is not the same thing as celebrating gun violence."
"Truly don't care if you think it's insensitive or poor timing to decline to respect an evil man who died," he added.
Bourguet declined to comment when reached by CBS News.
MSNBC said it cut ties with analyst Matthew Dowd after he said in an on-air conversation that Kirk had pushed incendiary speech and that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions." In a public statement, Comcast accused Dowd of making "an unacceptable and insensitive comment about this horrific event."
"That coverage was at odds with fostering civil dialogue and being willing to listen to the points of view of those who have differing opinions. We should be able to disagree, robustly and passionately, but, ultimately, with respect. We need to do better," Comcast executives said.
Dowd, the former chief strategist for Republican President George W. Bush, apologized in a Substack post on Friday, saying he hadn't meant to imply Kirk was to blame for the violence that killed him, the AP reported. But Dowd, a long-time political analyst at ABC News before joining MSNBC in 2022, also accused the network of caving to pressure to fire him.
"The right wing media mob ginned up, went after me on a plethora of platforms, and MSNBC reacted to that mob," he wrote on Substack. "Even though most at MSNBC knew my words were being misconstrued, the timing of my words forgotten ... and that I apologized for any miscommunication on my part, I was terminated by the end of the day."
Also in the media industry, Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah said in a Substack post Monday that the company dismissed her last week after she spoke out "against political violence, racial double standards, and America's apathy toward guns," noting that she only referred to Kirk once in a separate social media post.
A spokesperson for the Washington Post declined to comment to CBS News on personnel matters...
Reminds me of nothing so much as the CEO United Way hard-sell that I used to run across back in my days working in the private sector. The question was never "if", but always "How much?". Sometimes it was strongly implied, sometimes it was more explicit, but always it was clear what was expected of you if you wanted to keep your job.
Probably time to remind the what it means to work in an "at will" state.
The answer may surprise you!
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Disney has morphed from a mouse into a chicken and have put Jimmy Kimmel "on 'Hold' indefinitely".
More like the Mouse is really a Louse.
One wonders whether these major dismissals are cowardice or underhanded pettiness: are they truly afraid of the MAGAts or are they using them as cover to do what they really wanted to do all along. Was the Colbert non-renewal a sop to the Malignant Fascist or a slap at Colbert for having the temerity to call out corporate management's sleazy bribe to the Melting One? Have the C-suites and above in Disney---sad to see Walt's name attached to this atrocity---been quietly slavering for Kimmel's blood and waiting for a chance to pounce?
It's ironic that Kimmel was sidelined for remarking that many opportunists were using the heinous murder as flimsy excuse to do what they've secretly wanted to do all along but the truth is no defense in a kangaroo---or Roberts---court. As they say, one can't let a perfectly good "crisis" go to waste.
They accuse people of saying things they didn't actually say because they /need/ someone to fulfill the script in their head. As they have always done, witness the instant "NO MORE JANE FONDAS!!!!" scourging of Margot Kidder and the Dixie Chicks for speaking against Poppy and Dubya Bush, respectively
They're accusing people of saying things they didn't actually say because the just overweeningly NEED some "liberal" to say the awful things they think liberals say so they can wave their bloody shirt and pretend to be the wronged party. As they have always done: witness the instant "NO MORE JANE FONDAS!!!" explosions at Margot Kidder and the Dixie Chicks for speaking out against Poppy and Shrub Bush, respectively.
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