Politico suspends Joe Williams for racially tinged remarks about Romney | Poynter.
When journalists are encouraged to share personal opinions on MSNBC and Fox News (Or Twitter or anywhere else) are they stepping over the line? I thought so when I worked in public radio. Others think so too. Politico suspended Joe Williams for his remarks on MSNBC about Mitt Romney being very much relaxed around white people. Williams has been warned before about his tweets about Romney.
MSNBC has standards when it comes to their own employees. You might remember that MSNBC and Keith Olberman parted ways over his political contributions. He was suspended. Olberman then quit.
NPR was criticized by Fox News and others for the firing of Juan Williams after his biased comments about Muslims on Fox News. It was not just this event that led to his firing.
AP has standards when it comes to their journalists using twitter.
Should journalists be held to a higher standard? Should they keep their opinions out of public view? Or, with the popularity of Fox News and MSNBC, is anything goes the new standard?
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