Chez Pazienza was fired Tuesday from his postiion as senior producer of CNN's "American Morning" for "violat[ing] its standards for journalists through his blog Deus Ex Malcontent."

He says he was just blogging to pass the time while recovering from brain surgery and that he never wrote about work-related issues - although he was very candid about his opinions on just about everything else, "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..."

They say "CNN has a policy that says employees must first get permission to write for a non-CNN outlet."

Source link: New York Times.