--- iwan qodar himawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: "iwan qodar himawan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:24:02 +0700 > Subject: [pantau-komunitas] produser cnn mengaku > dipecat krn bikin blog > > February 14, 2008, 2:02 pm CNN Producer Says He Was > Fired for Blogging > > By Sewell Chan > <http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/author/schan/> > [image: Blogger]Chez Pazienza > > Should journalists be permitted to maintain personal > and highly > opinionated blogs on their own time? Chez > Pazienza, a senior producer for > CNN's "American Morning," says the network fired him > on Tuesday on the > grounds that he violated its standards for > journalists through his blog, Deus > Ex Malcontent <http://www.deusexmalcontent.com/>. > > Mr. Pazienza announced that he had been fired > through what else a blog > post on Wednesday. "What was the reason for my > abrupt and untimely > dismissal?" he wrote. "You're reading it. More to > come soon." > > 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 <http://www.fark.com/>, a popular > news-aggregation site, and > Pajiba <http://www.pajiba.com/>, a left-wing blog of > movie and book reviews. > > "Slowly but surely people started reading me a > little bit, and it was nice," > he said. "I was still relatively small but for a > personal blog. I was doing > very well. I had a few thousand hits a day." > > Then, a few months ago, Mr. Pazienza was invited to > start blogging on The > Huffington Post <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/>, > the group blog founded by > Arianna Huffington. > > Mr. Pazienza said he has never identified himself in > his writing as a CNN > producer or as a representative of CNN and has never > written about what goes > on at work. "I will write about the media in general > and, at times, the very > sorry state of it, including the TV news media," he > said. "I think I have > the right to." > > Mr. Pazienza described Deus Ex Malcontent as a > personal journal, where he > has mused about everything from his recovery from > surgery to his thoughts on > the mass media and popular culture. He has linked to > music videos from bands > he likes and written about past relationships. > > "It's basically me," he said. "It's whatever happens > to strike my fancy that > day. I don't have any advertisers, so I'm not > exactly beholden to anyone. I > don't wake up worrying about how many people are > reading me." > > Deus Ex Malcontent makes no effort to hide its > author's strong views. "I > wake up every morning baffled as to why America > hasn't thrown George Bush > and Dick Cheney in prison, Hollywood hasn't stopped > trying to convince me > that Sarah Jessica Parker is attractive, gullible > soccer moms haven't > realized that they share absolutely no kinship with > Oprah, and Fox canceled > 'Firefly,'" Mr. Pazienza wrote on the biographical > section of his blog. > > Barbara Levin, a spokeswoman for CNN, said she could > not discuss specifics > because the network does not comment on personnel > matters, but she said in a > statement, "CNN has a policy that says employees > must first get permission > to write for a non-CNN outlet." > > Mr. Pazienza acknowledges that he did not ask > permission from CNN to blog, > either on his own Web site or on The Huffington > Post. He contends that the > policy had not been made clear to employees and was > overly vague. "It's > purposely set up so they can be subjective," he > said. "Does that mean I > can't post on a MySpace blog that my friends read? > Does that mean I can't > post something online to my wife?" He added that he > believed he had been > dismissed because of his views. > > When he was fired on Tuesday, Mr. Pazienza said, > only his personal blog was > mentioned, not his work for The Huffington Post. Mr. > Pazienza also said his > supervisors had told him that they did not know of > other CNN employers who > blogged, an assertion Mr. Pazienza said he knows to > be untrue. Mr. Pazienza > lives on the Upper East Side with his wife; the > couple are expecting a baby > in August. He said he is not going to fight to get > his job back, but when > asked whether he planned to hire a lawyer, he said > he had not yet decided on > any plans. > > (For those who wonder, The New York Times's policy > on ethics in journalism > does have a section on blogs > <http://www.nytco.com/press/ethics.html#B5>. > While it states that blogs "present imaginative > opportunities for personal > expression and exciting new journalism," it adds > that blogs "also require > cautions, magnified by the Web's unlimited reach." > It elaborates that > personal blog content should be "purely that: > personal," and that staff > members should avoid blogging about topics they > cover as journalists and > avoid taking stands on divisive public issues, among > other guidelines.) > > > -- > iwan qodar himawan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > iwan qodar himawan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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