According to the Riverfront Times, a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter was fired for blogging:
Following publication of an Unreal item in last week’s Riverfront Times, newsroom management at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch seized the computer hard drive of staff writer Daniel P. Finney and suspended him from reporting duties.
The Unreal piece, “Local Blog o’ the Week,” highlighted an online diary written under the pseudonym Roland H. Thompson. Though Finney did not identify himself by name in the blog, titled “Rage, Anguish and Other Bad Craziness in St. Louis,” he chronicled minute details of his life, including lengthy passages about his job as a Post-Dispatch features writer.
Of course, what’s a story about a blogger losing a job without an obligatory genuflection to the apparent patron saint and prostitute plucky promiscuous-and-enterpreneurial Washington insider, Jessica Cutler:
Firing employees for their private blogs is nothing new. U.S. Senate mail clerk Jessica Cutler made national headlines earlier this year when she lost her job after detailing her sexual escapades with Senate staffers.
Although the content might have been pithy, I doubt Finney’s blog detailed receiving anal sex for six hundred dollars per.
Man, if this blog ever leads to my dismissal or loss of business, I shall keep it quiet just so no one mentions my name and Jessica Cutler’s in the same article.
