Sportswriter fired for tweet critical of op-ed run in the newspaper

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Jeremy Vernon, sports editor of the Chatham News+Record in North Carolina, tweeted his disappointment that the newspaper, recently bought out by the conservative North State Journal, published an op-ed from the Chatham Moms for Liberty founder.



Tuesday, six days later, the newspaper fired him.



He let his feelings about the current management known.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

He was ready for it.

 

[SixToe]

Has more time to be a "dog dad" now

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Don't like to see people being fired, but if he didn't expect this to be the end result, he's too naive to be employed.

 

[Oggiedoggie]

He put the ex in X.

 

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[SixToe]

If you're publicly critical of your employer, depending on the situation you probably should expect repercussions.

Someone at the NYT or LAT could probably get away with some sniping and bitching, unless it gets over the top. Someone at a small community paper with six years experience and one year at the publication? They're not going to shrug and let it slide.

 

[HappyCurmudgeon]

Be critical of the op-ed, not the vessel that published it, especially if that vessel employs you. But from reading his tweets it might have been a calculated thing.

 

[DanOregon]

It's an op-ed. Newspapers have a duty to represent different viewpoints in their paper. I don't want to agree with everything in a newspaper opinion page, be it letters to the editor or whatever.

 

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[JimmyHoward33]

Spoiler alert, no matter how talented they are they wont all get jobs.

there aint enough to go around. Dont blow one on cuz of an op/ed

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

And definitely don't play the "woe is me" card after you do something that would get you fired from any shop in the country.